JAT Construction, Inc.

JAT Construction, Inc. is a general contractor at 105 Fayette Street in Watertown. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration, #157979, is verified active with the state registry. The BBB profile records a corporation started on 1 January 2003 and incorporated in April 2004, with three employees and the alternate name J A T Construction. The clearest picture of what they actually do comes from building permits rather than from customers. BuildZoom counts 85 permitted projects, 32 of them in the last three years, with a typical permit value around $40,340 and a range running from small jobs under $5,000 up to work above $1 million. The work is heavily concentrated in Brookline and is mostly interior: kitchen renovations, bathroom renovations, basement and third-floor build-outs, window replacements, and at least one new house on Davis Avenue. BuildZoom scores the firm 104, which it places in the 91st percentile of Massachusetts contractors. The BBB lists the wider service list the company gives — additions and dormers, carpentry and cabinets, roofing and siding, decks and porches, flooring and painting — and grades the profile A+, though the business is not BBB accredited. What is missing is any customer voice. BuildZoom has received no reviews for them, the BBB profile publishes no star rating and no reviews, and no review platform in this research carried a rating for the firm. The one first-hand signal is a June 2025 comment in a r/Brookline thread asking for a general contractor, where a poster passed on the name Amelia Taco and offered to share her number — a recommendation, but a bare one. Two licence details are worth raising because BuildZoom lists them: two City of Newton registrations under #104260 (Building Contractor and Residential Builder) and two US EPA Renovation certifications (#NAT-58375-2 and -3) are all shown as inactive there. EPA lead-safe certification matters on pre-1978 housing, which is most of Brookline and Watertown, so ask to see current certification if your home predates 1978. If you are considering them, the permit record is genuinely strong evidence that the work gets done and inspected. Ask for recent client references directly, since there is no public review history to read, and confirm the EPA renovation certification before work starts on an older house.