Edward Sarkisyan

Edward Sarkisyan's name sits on 164 permitted projects in Massachusetts — enough volume to put his BuildZoom score at 109, above 95% of contractors in the state — and the work behind those permits is mostly unglamorous and repeatable: gut the kitchen, hang new cabinets and appliances, retile, swap the outlets and lighting, paint the whole unit, hand it back. Twenty-two of those permits fall in the last three years, most in Brookline, at a typical value around $10,850. The company describes over a decade in the greater Boston area, beginning near Newton, with a client list that explains the pattern: property management groups, hospitality firms, assisted living and nursing homes, apartment complexes, condominium associations, shopping centres and schools. Unit turnovers, capital renovations, exterior and interior painting. Only one customer has written anything, back in January 2017, but it is worth reading. A homeowner described a full exterior repaint of an old three-storey Victorian under a three-year warranty, which they later used when a section at the back peeled early — and noted, fairly, that the same spot was peeling again by the time they wrote. The porch story is the one that sticks. The crew was rebuilding it in composite decking and got halfway before the homeowner realised the material delivered didn't match the sample they had special-ordered. Rather than leave a half-finished porch, the crew completed it, then redid the whole job in the correct material. On licensing, BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, #CS-099519, and says it checked that licence as active in July 2026. Verify the number with the Department of Public Safety yourself, and ask separately about home improvement contractor registration, which is the credential covering non-structural residential work. One oddity for the call: the 2017 reviewer calls the outfit SmartCoats, while the listing carries Edward Sarkisyan's own name. Worth clarifying which entity is signing and insuring the contract. For a multi-unit property or a large exterior repaint, this permit history is unusually deep for a Nahant listing. Ask for recent references, though — the written account is nearly a decade old, and the paint-durability note deserves a direct question.