Good Builders Inc

Good Builders Inc is a North Falmouth outfit built around one kind of job: the Cape Cod custom home. Ground-up builds, additions, gut renovations, and the site prep and excavation that comes before any of it. The company says Stephen Good started it after finishing his first spec home in 1987, and that his son Jake now handles projects and operations alongside him. It describes itself as family-owned. What can be checked independently is short but clean. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 118403, is active and held in the company's own name. Its Better Business Bureau page carries an A+ grade and lists no complaints and no government actions — though the company is not BBB accredited, and that page carries no customer reviews. Two things are worth pinning down before you call. The company's own site dates its start to 1987, nearly four decades; its BBB profile lists a business start of January 2006 and a single employee. Ask directly how long the current entity has been building and who will actually be on site. Older court filings also show Good Builders, Inc. and Alan King appealing a Falmouth Historic Districts Commission decision that denied a certificate of appropriateness for proposed renovations to the Frances Nye property in North Falmouth, heard in 2007. That matters mainly if your own house sits inside a historic district, where the permitting is the long pole in the tent. This is the right call for a Cape homeowner planning a ground-up build or a substantial remodel who wants a state-registered builder and doesn't need a long public review trail to feel comfortable. Ask for references from recently finished projects, and get the scope and the contract type in writing before anyone breaks ground.