AKS Merit Constructors, Inc.

AKS Merit Constructors works out of Standish Avenue in Quincy, and the one thing the state can confirm about it is not encouraging: its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 177856, is listed as expired, under the company's own name. That carries weight for a remodeler. In Massachusetts, HIC registration is the consumer-protection layer over residential work, so a lapsed one is the first thing to put to them — not a reason to write them off, but a question that has to be answered before money changes hands. Ask whether the registration has been renewed since, get the current number, and check it yourself on the state's site before signing anything.