James M Rousseau

James M Rousseau is a flat-roof man. Six of the eight permits on his record are roofing jobs, and the pattern is unmistakable: rubber-membrane strip-and-replace work on Brookline apartment buildings and commercial properties, including a $128,988 membrane job on a church. Typical permit value sits around $34,500 — larger than the usual residential re-roof. He works out of Haverhill but the permits cluster thirty-odd miles south in Brookline, with the occasional shingle job and a skylight install mixed in. Someone who pulls repeat permits in one town, on one building type, usually has a relationship with the property owners there. His Massachusetts Construction Supervisor licence, #CS-118133, is listed as active. That is the Department of Public Safety credential required for structural work — separate from the Home Improvement Contractor registration that covers non-structural residential jobs, which is worth asking about if your project is a straightforward house re-roof. The gap here is the homeowner's voice: no customer reviews exist on the record at all. Nothing about scheduling, cleanup, punch-list follow-through, or how he handles rain mid-tear-off. His BuildZoom score of 100 puts him in the 87th percentile statewide, but that number is built from permit history, not from anyone who hired him. If you own a flat-roofed building — a multifamily, a commercial property, a church — this is the kind of record you want to see. For a single-family shingle job, he has done that work too, just less of it. Either way, confirm the licence directly with the Department of Public Safety, ask whether he also carries HIC registration for residential work, and get references from the Brookline properties, because the public record supplies none.