J. Caron Contracting, Inc.

The single most important thing about J. Caron Contracting is a discrepancy a homeowner should resolve before signing anything: the Massachusetts registry's own record for Home Improvement Contractor registration #162355 — filed to James D. Caron Jr. at 3 Pinehurst Ave, Methuen, with James Caron as responsible person — carries the status "Inactive". BuildZoom's page for the same business states the opposite, that licence #162355 is Active and was verified so in June 2026. Both were read on the same day. Ask the company directly, and check the number yourself on the state's Contractor Hub, before work starts. That matters because in Massachusetts an active HIC registration is what gives a homeowner access to the Guaranty Fund if a residential job goes wrong. The work itself is real and documented. BuildZoom lists six permitted projects: a $125,000 single-storey master bedroom and bathroom addition with finished basement, mud room and entry deck in Methuen in 2024; a vinyl siding installation; a third stall added to a detached garage; and earlier permits for a bathroom expansion in Newton, a kitchen remodel in Waltham, a bedroom built into a finished lower level in Waltham, and window replacement at an Audubon building in Newburyport. A Lexington permit record lists the company at P.O. Box 28, Methuen. Two owners are named, James Caron and James Caron Jr. On the customer side there is almost nothing. BuildZoom has received no reviews, and no reviews turned up anywhere else. The one personal account is a recommendation on the owner's own LinkedIn profile, where a client wrote that Jim "has renovated my entire house room-by-room from kitchen to bathroom and everything in between" — a reference on the company's own page, not an independent rating. So: a contractor with a genuine permit history and named owners, no independent reviews, and a registration status two sources disagree about. Resolve the registration question first, then ask for references from the specific permitted jobs above.