Builders Hometown LLC

Builders Hometown LLC is a small general contractor at 478 Eastern Ave in Lynn, Massachusetts, (781) 884-7110, working mainly on decks, porches, roofing, siding, vinyl flooring and remodeling. Angi and HomeAdvisor carry the company's own description of itself as a family-owned business with 16 years of experience that offers free estimates, warranties and Spanish-language service. The most important fact on this page is a credential one. The Massachusetts registry records Home Improvement Contractor registration 201749, held by BUILDERS HOMETOWN LLC, as REVOKED. A revoked HIC registration is not a lapse to renew — in Massachusetts it is the state withdrawing the registration, and it removes the homeowner's access to the Guaranty Fund on work performed without it. Ask the company directly about its current registration status and verify it yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation before signing anything or paying a deposit. BuildZoom tells a different story on the same question: it shows a "Verified License" badge and says the licence "was verified as active when we last checked". That contradicts the registry, and the registry is the authority. BuildZoom's "BZ SCORE: 112... top 3% of 139,240 Massachusetts licensed contractors" is calculated from permit filings, not from customers, and should not be read as a satisfaction score. What can be seen of the actual work is a permit trail rather than customer feedback: residential deck builds and rebuilds, a composite deck expansion, replacement windows, re-roofs and a kitchen, filed in Needham, Amesbury, Danvers, Cambridge, Dunstable, Marshfield and Waltham between 2016 and 2023 at values from about $10,000 to $31,000. One 2023 Danvers deck permit is marked suspended and one 2022 Dunstable permit expired. There is no customer feedback anywhere on file. BuildZoom states plainly that it has received no reviews for the company, and neither Angi nor HomeAdvisor publishes a star rating or a single review body for it (their two pages are the same page). No rating is published here: with no reviews at all and a revoked state registration, there is nothing honest to score.