Absolute Building Consultants Inc.

Absolute Building Consultants builds custom homes across Plymouth and the South Shore, and the name attached to nearly every review is Mike Mulligan. The company says it was founded in 2008 by Mulligan, continuing a multi-generation family building tradition, and today his son Shane builds alongside him as a fourth-generation builder, with Gina named repeatedly as the third member of the core team homeowners deal with directly. On Google, 16 ratings average 4.8 stars, and the fourteen written reviews on record since 2023 point the same direction: people who actually built with them keep praising the communication. One family calls the process "clear, prompt, and professional... every step of the way"; another says emails came back quickly and the crew showed up exactly when they said they would. A detailed 2025 review credits the team with running the whole project — survey, permits, demolition, septic, the build, and landscaping — on a schedule that held with no delays, from an October demolition to an April occupancy permit. Its BBB file carries an A+ letter grade, but the listing is explicit that Absolute Building Consultants is not an accredited BBB business — worth knowing since the grade alone can read like a certification. There's also a gap worth asking about: the company's own site dates its founding to 2008, while BBB's file has the business starting in 2016. Whichever year is the real starting point, nothing in the fourteen reviews on file raises a complaint about the actual work, and none of the last six months' activity is negative. This reads like a small, family-run outfit built for someone planning an actual custom build or a lot in a subdivision on the South Shore, not a high-volume remodeling contractor. The people who left reviews were mostly happy with how much they were told and how often, which matters most on a project that can run from a fall demolition to a spring move-in. Before signing on, it's worth asking directly about that 2008-vs-2016 timeline, since the one reviewer who describes a full build start-to-finish says the calendar Absolute set was the calendar Absolute kept.