Danny Cerqueira Construction

Sixty-two permits tell one story about Danny Cerqueira's Construction; the people who have written about it tell another, and the gap between them is what a homeowner has to weigh. The permit trail is real and broad. Working from 2 Norma Way in Middleton — an LLC the Better Business Bureau records as starting in October 2004, incorporated in 2011, with eight employees and Danny Cerqueira as president — the company has pulled permits across Middleton, Topsfield, Danvers, Peabody, Beverly, Groveland, Cambridge, Charlestown, Revere and Boston. The jobs range from bathroom restorations after water damage up to a $315,000 three-floor addition and a $199,700 new single-family house. On Houzz the company says it has served Massachusetts for over ten years, and lists general contracting, home remodeling, custom kitchen and bath building, decks, roofing and siding, and windows, naming Nahant among the towns it covers. The written accounts are fewer, and mostly unhappy. BuildZoom shows 2.0 out of 5 from two reviews. In January 2025 one described being owed $9,500 as a subcontractor, warned about liens on the homeowner's property, and said the company was quick to respond up to the point payment was due. In April 2017 a Cambridge homeowner wrote that they had chosen Danny over other bidders on the strength of his estimate and references, then met months of unreturned calls and an unsigned contract and hired someone else; the company replied on that profile that the work had always been scheduled for mid-summer and that no contract, permit or deposit had been in place. The BBB page pulls the other way — an A+ grade, with praise there for completed building work alongside a complaint about appointments not being kept. The licensing needs settling before anything else. BuildZoom's records show a Massachusetts general contractor licence, #165247, expired since 23 January 2014, four home improvement contractor registrations all listed inactive, and a banner saying no active licence is on file. Those are the directory's own records rather than a state check, so ask for current HIC registration and construction supervisor numbers, verify them with the state yourself, and get certificates of insurance in hand. For a large addition or a whole-house job, there is genuine depth of permitted work behind this company. Confirm the licensing, put payment milestones and a schedule in the contract, and ask for references from jobs closed within the last year.