Catamount Builders

Catamount Builders is a one-employee outfit on the books in South Boston that takes on work far bigger than that suggests. Its permit history runs to gut rehabs and multi-unit renovations — two Brookline apartment buildings permitted at $600,000 each, a two-family converted to a single in Somerville, kitchen and bathroom rebuilds in Cambridge — 27 permitted projects in all, sampled from 2013 through 2021. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. The company has been incorporated since 2008, and the BBB grades it A+ with Steven Deering listed as president. The written record is thin, and it points in two directions. The one review carrying any text, from January 2023, comes from a client who spent more than two years with the company on a 10,000-square-foot gut renovation of two brick multi-family buildings; they said Steven was upfront on pricing, stood behind his work, and that nothing construction-related had gone wrong since residents moved in. A Reddit commenter in May 2024 said Catamount did their kitchen renovation, multiple permits and all. Set against that, the Google listing averages 3.2 stars across nine ratings — meaning most of the people who rated the company wrote nothing and did not rate it well. That gap is the thing to close before hiring. Ask for references from jobs finished in the last two years at roughly the scale of yours, and ask directly about what sits behind the ratings that pulled the average down.