Budget Exteriors

Budget Exteriors' paper trail runs a lot longer than its review history: 223 permitted projects on record in Massachusetts, and exactly one customer review on BuildZoom — a single star. The company works out of 354 Merrimack St in Lawrence and is listed as owned by Louis Milano. Its permit record points at exteriors in the literal sense: siding and re-roofing account for most of the filings, with a typical job valued around $19,000. About 13 of those permits have been pulled in the past three years, so this is an active crew rather than a dormant registration. The reputation side is where a homeowner should slow down. BuildZoom scores the company 89, which the site itself places at the 30th percentile of Massachusetts contractors, and the lone review posted there is negative. One review is a thin base to judge anyone on in either direction — but nothing positive sits alongside it. The licensing picture deserves a question or two. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #177704, issued in April 2026, alongside an earlier registration, #161932, shown as cancelled. A City of Newton builder license on the same page was last verified with an August 2022 expiration, and an EPA renovation certification is listed as inactive — worth pinning down, since lead-safe certification matters on pre-1978 siding and roofing work. Worth a call if you want a siding or re-roof contractor with a deep permit history behind it. Before signing anything, ask for the current registration number and check it yourself against the state's Consumer Affairs registry, ask whether the EPA lead-safe certification has been renewed, and — with so few public reviews to go on — ask for recent local references you can actually phone.