Hillcrest Electric Company

Sixty years is the number that stands out. The Better Business Bureau dates Hillcrest Electric Corporation to 1966 in Massachusetts, incorporated in 2001, and describes a six-person shop working out of Needham on fire alarm systems, network and home-theater wiring, and bringing older houses up to code for residential and light commercial clients. Bill LeMay Jr. is listed as president. The permit trail fills in what that looks like day to day. BuildZoom counts 77 permitted projects and puts the typical permit value near $1,500, clustered around Needham, Newton and Brookline. That is not a big-remodel electrical house; it is a shop people call for the circuit, the panel, the thing that quit. What's absent is the part homeowners usually lean on. Its BBB page carries an A+ grade but no customer review, and an A+ is the bureau's read on its own file, not on the work. So the case for this company rests on tenure and permits, not on anyone's written account of a job. The licence picture deserves a phone call. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts electrician licence, #17175, as active, and also shows a City of Newton electrical contractor record under that same number with a July 2022 expiration, a master electrician entry expired in 2016, and a separate Newton licence, #40444, marked cancelled. Those are BuildZoom's records, not a state-registry confirmation. Ask for the current number and check it with the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Electricians before anyone starts. Right call for: everyday residential electrical in the Needham-Newton corridor from a long-established, small crew. Confirm the licence, and ask for two or three recent local references — with no reviews on file, references are the only customer account you'll get.