Edwin D. Molina

Ninety-six permits, and the typical one is worth about $2,800 — Edwin D. Molina is an owner-operated electrician whose work is the small stuff, done a lot. He is listed in Reading, though the jobs range far wider than that. Bathroom and kitchen rewires, smoke detectors, circuits tied to siding work, a sub-panel for a shed: that is the shape of his permit history. It runs from the North Shore — Beverly, Marblehead, Manchester, Danvers, Newbury — down through Everett, Arlington, Brookline, Milton and Newton, up to Lowell, and once as far west as Springfield. Two of the 96 are commercial, both small office fit-outs in Danvers. Two things to raise before booking. Seven of those 96 permits come from the past three years, so ask what his schedule looks like now. And his BuildZoom page disagrees with itself about licensing: one block lists an Electrician license, #11329, in Massachusetts with a July 2025 expiration date, while a red alert elsewhere on the same page contradicts that block outright. For a single circuit, a run of smoke detectors or a bathroom rewire — the kind of job that fills his permit history — he is a sensible call. Get the license number from him directly and check it with the state before he starts, and ask who pulls the permit.