Best Choice Abatement & Demolition

Best Choice Abatement & Demolition is not a roofer — it is a demolition and asbestos abatement contractor working out of the Lawrence and Methuen area, hired for tear-outs rather than anything that goes back on a house. The work its customers describe is selective and partial demolition, full tear-downs, commercial demolition and clean-outs, on jobs ranging from a few thousand dollars to twenty thousand. Its HomeAdvisor profile claims 21 years in the trade, offers emergency call-out and warranties, and notes Spanish is spoken. On HomeAdvisor it carries 5.0 across ten reviews stretching back to 2022, every one of them five stars. The praise is consistent on three things — showing up when promised, communicating through the job, and leaving the site clean — and one customer names Manuel and his crew directly. Worth keeping in proportion, though: it is a single platform, several of the accounts are one-liners, and a 100 percent five-star record across every review is a shape worth reading with some caution rather than as a verdict. The credential picture needs a direct question. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 149298, has expired. Separately, HomeAdvisor lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-102179, running to February 2027 — a different licence covering different work, and one the platform states is self-reported rather than checked. Asbestos abatement is separately regulated in Massachusetts by DEP and the Department of Labor Standards, and nothing here confirms that licensing. The listing address is also unsettled: this record shows Jackson Street in Lawrence while the company's own HomeAdvisor page gives 60 Pine Street Unit E in Methuen. For a homeowner facing a gut, a garage tear-down or an asbestos removal before a renovation, the track record on tear-out work reads consistently well over three years. Before signing, ask for the current asbestos abatement licence and DEP notification, get the expired home improvement registration explained or renewed, and confirm which address and entity the contract is written under.