D S Brody & Associates

D S Brody & Associates is a woman-owned general contracting firm in Waltham, run by president Dominique Weyl, and its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. The Better Business Bureau, which lists the company at 133 Brewster Rd and files it under mason contractors, gives it an A+ and records the business as incorporated in 2008 with five employees. No complaints appear on that profile. What the firm actually builds shows up on Houzz: eight posted projects, mostly around Waltham and Lexington — new townhouse construction with quartz countertops and a marble hexagon backsplash, kitchen renovations, a master shower, a sill replacement, a porch converted into a playroom. The typical job cost it publishes there runs from $20,000 to about $1 million, which is a wide span covering everything from a targeted repair to a whole house. The thin part is what customers have said. Neither the BBB nor the Houzz profile carries a single review, and the one piece of open-web word of mouth is old: in a July 2016 r/Waltham thread, a homeowner passed along the company's website and said it had done work on their house and done it well. That is genuine, unprompted praise — but it is a decade old and a single line, so it cannot carry much weight on its own. A couple of details are worth confirming, because the company's listings disagree with each other. Houzz shows an older address on Lincoln Street, a different phone number, and a self-description of ten years in business, while the BBB record points to Brewster Rd and a 2008 start. Worth a call if you want an established, licensed Metro West builder for a substantial renovation or a new build, and you are comfortable asking for references directly — ask for recent local projects and current contact details, since almost nothing customer-written has been posted about them in years.