James V Abbisso

Most of James V Abbisso's permit history is not houses at all — it is Northeastern University. Seven of his nine permits are office and student-centre fit-outs on the Huntington Avenue campus and the streets around it: demolishing partitions and building three new offices, new drywall, carpet, paint, millwork and electrical in the Curry Student Center, suspended ceilings and sprinkler grids, work running from 2010 through 2018 and topping out at $65,239. Add a $197,000 restroom renovation at McElroy Commons in Chestnut Hill in 2016, and the shape is a commercial interiors contractor. The residential side is real but small. Two Roslindale jobs: a $15,000 kitchen remodel on Belgrade Avenue completed in 2021, and a kitchen plus second-floor bathroom renovation on Bradfield Avenue filed in 2023 at $8,000. That 2023 job is the only permit in the past three years. His Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-032325, is active — checked directly against the state registry, held in his own name. That matters here, because BuildZoom's page says the opposite three separate ways: it calls the same number a general contractor licence that expired in March 2026, says it verified the licence expired on 23 July 2026, and lists it as inactive and once cancelled. The state's own record disagrees with all three. BuildZoom's score of 0 follows from its belief that there is no active licence, so that number carries the same error — and it is not a customer verdict in any case. A construction supervisor licence is the credential for structural work; it is a different thing from the home improvement contractor registration that covers nonstructural residential remodeling. If you are hiring him for a kitchen or a bathroom, ask which registration he carries for that work and get the number. No customer has written anything about him anywhere, and BuildZoom says so plainly. There is no rating and no account of how any of these projects went. The profile also carries no street address and no phone number at all, only "Marblehead, MA 01945" — so reaching him means finding a contact route the directory does not provide. He is best matched to commercial interior work, which is where nearly all of the documented experience sits. For a home kitchen or bath, the record is two jobs deep and the most recent one was filed in 2023.