Jay A Lawrence

Nineteen permits and not a single customer review — Jay A Lawrence's record is written entirely in building department filings, and most of them are downtown Boston, not Marblehead. The permits run through the South End and Beacon Hill: an $804,585 interior build of a swimming pool and exercise area at 789-793 Tremont St, a full rebuild of 119 Charles St after a fire, and repeated office fit-outs at 120 Shawmut Ave. Residential work does appear, but it is the minority: a lower-level renovation at 158 W Concord St, a bathroom gut at 101 Chestnut St, and heating and laundry work at a Chestnut Hill house. Someone hiring for a straightforward home bathroom should know the bulk of this filing history is commercial and mixed-use property. The credential is the thing to settle before anything else. BuildZoom lists construction supervisor licence CS-027923 with an expiration date of 10-25-2023, says the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety showed it at one point cancelled, and reports it still inactive when checked on 22 July 2026. BuildZoom scores the profile 0 on that basis. Massachusetts requires an active construction supervisor licence for work touching a building's structural elements, and home improvement work requires a separate registration with the Office of Consumer Affairs — none is listed here at all. No homeowner has written anything down. BuildZoom states plainly that it holds no reviews, the profile is unclaimed, and there is no phone number or street address on it beyond the Marblehead ZIP. This is a contractor with a real, substantial commercial track record and no current public credential or customer history to go with it. If you are considering them, ask directly whether the construction supervisor licence has been renewed, ask for a home improvement contractor registration number, and check both with the state before any contract is signed.