Dante's Construction

Siding, windows, gutters — dante's Construction is a two-person Salem outfit whose 127 permits read like a list of the jobs homeowners actually need done, and whose written customer history stopped in 2014. Raul Baez Jr. is the manager BBB lists, and a 2013 reviewer put it plainly: "mr baez work at my house, exelente work, good service. i recomend him." A year later, in December 2014, a homeowner named Liz described a $23,000 roof-and-siding job finished in thirteen days and called him reliable and always on time. Those two accounts are the entire written record, and both are more than a decade old. The permits carry the more recent story. Eleven in the last three years, a typical value around $21,750, and a range that runs from siding, deck and window work in Revere in 2025 up to a $195,000 two-family gut rehab in Peabody in 2020, a $170,000 whole-house remodel in Revere in 2022, and a Milton project in 2021 that replaced 52 windows and rebuilt four bathrooms. Exterior work keeps recurring — vinyl siding, soffit and gutters in Malden, dormers and siding in Rowley. Three permits are worth raising directly. The Topsfield job from 2024, the Rowley job from 2023 and the Malden job from 2023 all carry a status of expired rather than final. An expired permit is a closeout question rather than a verdict, but it is a specific one, and you are entitled to ask how each was resolved. On paperwork, BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-106464, and a home improvement contractor registration, 173214, both as active. Those are the directory's listings, not confirmations, so check them with the state yourself. BBB gives the business an A+ while stating separately that it is not BBB accredited — two different facts that are easy to read as one. The shape here is a long, steady permit history with very little customer voice attached to it. If you want siding, windows or a whole-house remodel on the North Shore, this is a reasonable bid to collect — then ask for two or three addresses from the last year, confirm both licence numbers with the state, and ask what happened with those three expired permits.