Who Is Tenika Chavis The Lady Carpenter

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hrough her alter-ego, “The Lady Carpenter,” Tenika Chavis earns her living as a residential and commercial contractor, renovating anything from stairs to kitchen cabinets and filling custom carpentry orders for her clientele in the Hill District.

Ms. Chavis owns a one-woman general contracting company, TDC Contracting LLC, which pops up neatly on the right-hand side of a Google search result, where businesses are listed. But like countless other local businesses, the search query returns few details — no photos, no website and no

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