James C Martinoli

James C Martinoli Construction is a small Haverhill remodeling shop whose permit history reads like a list of the jobs people actually call about: master and basement bathrooms, tub-to-shower conversions, kitchen cabinet and counter replacements, attic and basement finishing, a porch turned into a half bath. Fifty permitted projects in all, spread across Haverhill, Methuen, Groveland, Middleton and Merrimac. The recent pace is slow. Four of those fifty permits came in the past three years — two in 2025, one in 2024, one in 2023 — three of the recent jobs valued between $5,000 and $20,000 and one between $20,000 and $50,000. That is a small operator taking a handful of projects a year, not a crew running several at once. BuildZoom scores him 96, the top 20% of the 139,240 licensed Massachusetts contractors it tracks. No homeowner has written about him there, so the permits carry the whole account. The paperwork has a wrinkle worth raising. BuildZoom lists two active Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations under his name — #192229, issued August 2025, and #107738, whose stated issue date of 5 August 2026 has not arrived yet — plus a construction supervisor licence, #CS-011756, listed active. An older registration, #106795, is shown inactive and described as at one point cancelled. Those are all the directory's entries, not the state's word. If you want a bathroom or a basement done by someone who has done that exact job in your town, the permit trail is on point. Ask which registration number is the current one, check it against the state registry yourself, and ask for references from the 2025 jobs — the work is documented, the customer side is not.