John Finnegan

Six permits, no reviews, and a licensing picture worth reading twice — that is what is on file for John Finnegan of 26 Beacon Street in Burlington. BuildZoom's permit records show six permitted jobs, three of them in the past two years. The substantial recent one is a $42,000 job in Nahant in August 2025: walls for three second-floor bedrooms, with windows changed to egress. There is also an electrical permit in Wenham that expired, and a February 2025 entry in Framingham for a shed placed without a permit, which that record says was taken down and removed. Licensing is the part to press on. BuildZoom puts an alert on the profile reading "no active license on file" and scores it 0. It lists two Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations, #135127 and #126631, as inactive, saying Consumer Affairs recorded each as at one point cancelled, plus four City of Newton licences — two general contractor, two electrical contractor — marked "not verified" with expiry dates in December 2021 and 2022. Those are the directory's records rather than a registry check, but cancelled statuses and years-past expiry dates are specific enough to raise directly. No one has written up a job either way: the profile carries no customer reviews. If you are weighing him for framing or an addition, ask for a current Home Improvement Contractor registration number and verify it yourself with Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation before any money moves, and settle in writing who pulls and closes out the permits.