AJ Home Builders Inc.

A custom mahogany deck in Centerville is the thing that sticks about AJ Home Builders. The homeowner who commissioned it wrote in 2022 that people still compliment it, and that it came in on time and on budget — detail that's rare in a contractor review. The East Sandwich company started life as AJ Carpentry, founded, it says, by two friends with roots on the Cape; the site names Jean Pimenta as CEO and founder and Anderson Silva as COO and founder. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active and held in the company's own name. On paper the outfit is small: the Better Business Bureau records an S corporation with two employees, started in May 2022, with a second address on Jennifer Lane in Hyannis, and grades its file A+. What customers have actually hired them for, in writing, is carpentry — decks, exterior trim, framing, interior finish, windows and doors. One homeowner writing in 2022 said the crew bid the job, started immediately, finished the deck, then got asked back to replace the trim around every window; the repeat hire is the part worth noticing. Another 2022 line is just six words: they do a good clean job. The catch is the calendar. Every written account runs between July 2022 and May 2023, almost all of it on HomeAdvisor under the old AJ Carpentry name, where the company shows 4.9 from six ratings. Nothing has been written by a customer since — so what's on record describes the carpentry crew it was, not the custom-home builder it now advertises. Its tenure also depends on where you look: the site says it has been building on the Cape since 2020, BBB records a 25 May 2022 start, and HomeAdvisor claims seven years of experience. For a deck, exterior trim or window work on the Cape, this is a small crew with a short, consistent set of accounts of exactly that work and a live state registration you can check yourself. For a custom home or a full addition — the bigger jobs the site now leads with — ask for recent references from completed projects at that size, and confirm who the construction supervisor of record is, because nothing written by a customer speaks to work at that scale.