Jan-Michaels Construction

Jan-Michaels Construction is a two-person custom home builder and remodeler working out of 18 Mabelle Street in Worcester. The company says it is run by Janet and Michael, a married couple who describe themselves as the only two people in the business, and that they design and build custom homes, whole-home remodels and custom decks. Their current project is their own subdivision, Molasses Hill Estates in Brookfield, where they build custom-designed homes on wooded lots. The design side sits in-house: the co-owner's professional profile describes teaching herself to draw floor plans and designing homes from 1,400 to 4,500 square feet, including kitchen and bath layouts, along with material procurement and project management. For a homeowner, that means the person drawing the plan and the person on site are the two owners rather than a rotating crew. How long they have been at it depends on which source you read. The Better Business Bureau records 42 years in business and a business start date of 1 January 1984, and the company's own About page says "40 years later, it is still just the two of us" — but the same website elsewhere says it has been known in Worcester County since 1993. Worth asking them to place the start date themselves. What is missing is customer feedback. The BBB profile carries no reviews and no complaints, and lists the business as not accredited and Not Rated because BBB says it has insufficient information to issue one. No published review record exists anywhere else in reach either, so there is nothing to weigh into a rating and none is given here. This is the shape of firm that lives on referrals: a small, long-established, owner-run builder with in-house design and a subdivision of its own. If that fits your project, ask for addresses of recent Worcester-area builds and remodels you can see, ask for the current Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration and insurance certificates, and ask directly about the founding date.