J.E. Watkins Construction Company

J.E. Watkins Construction Company works out of Lynn and is run by Brent Watkins, who is the holder of record on its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration. Porch's credentials line puts it at nine years in business. The company describes itself on BuildZoom as "a Veteran-Owned construction company serving Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire," able to work "from the foundations to the roof, including servicing your plumbing and electrical needs," on projects it says have ranged from $500 to $150 million. Federal contracting records list it as a small business, small disadvantaged business and veteran-owned business, and its own federal capability statement describes it as a certified SDVOSB seeking service-disabled-veteran set-aside construction work. The credentials check out where they can be checked. Its Home Improvement Contractor registration #185040 is verified active against the Massachusetts registry. BuildZoom separately shows a second licence, a Construction Supervisor licence #CS-108712, which it lists as active and which it says it verified in July 2026, and it awards the company a BuildZoom score of 100 - the top 13% of the 139,240 licensed Massachusetts contractors it tracks - on the strength of that verified licensing. What the company has actually built is visible through permits rather than reviews. Building-permit records show 40 permitted projects, and the sample BuildZoom publishes is steady residential exterior work: strip-and-reroof and siding jobs valued between roughly $8,500 and $18,800 in Belmont, Everett, Revere, Methuen and Lowell across 2020 to 2024. That is a real, continuous work history in the trades a homeowner would hire for, spread across a wide slice of Greater Boston and the North Shore. The gap is customer feedback. Neither BuildZoom nor Porch has received a single review, and no rating exists on any source here, so there is nothing on record from the people who hired them - which is why no score is published on this page. The advertised range is also very wide for a company this size, spanning demolition, interior fit-out, additions, junk removal, decks, kitchen and bath remodeling, windows, roofing, plumbing and electrical. This is a well-licensed, permit-active general contractor with a documented roofing and siding track record and no customer commentary yet. Ask for references from recent jobs in your own town, confirm both licence numbers directly with the Department of Public Safety and Consumer Affairs, and get the specific trades in your project confirmed in writing rather than relying on the breadth of the services list.