Forsyth Electrical Co Inc

A hundred and fifty-two permitted projects, and not one customer review anywhere. That gap is the first thing to understand about Forsyth Electrical, an electrical contractor at 20 Charles Street in Methuen run by David T Forsyth with a two-man crew alongside him. The permit trail says what the work actually is. Most of it is meter-socket disconnect-and-reattach — the electrical piece that lets a siding crew get at a wall — pulled across Beverly, Peabody and Danvers, with the occasional 200-amp service upgrade among them. This is trade-to-trade work more than kitchen-table work, which is the shape of a company that shows up in permit databases and nowhere on review platforms. The licensing picture is the part that needs care. BuildZoom lists seven separate records across four licence types for this single company, and they contradict one another: the same number sits there as an active state electrician licence and, elsewhere on the page, as a cancelled City of Newton contractor registration. Another number appears four times, once glued to a second number inside one field, and three entries read "Active" while carrying a 2016 expiration date. None of it has been confirmed against the Commonwealth's registry, so read all of it as a directory's bookkeeping rather than as a credential this company holds. The BuildZoom score of 90 is worth naming too, because it looks like a rating and is not one — it is calculated from permits and licence status, with no customer opinion in it at all. A homeowner calling Forsyth is calling a company with a long, verifiable permit history and no public track record of what its customers thought. Ask for the current licence number and check it yourself on the Commonwealth's e-licensing site, and ask for two or three recent residential references you can actually phone.