John S Saba

John S Saba Construction is a one-owner general contracting business run by John Saba out of 479 Prospect St in Methuen, listed under general contractors for the town and reachable at (978) 423-5524. The work he takes on is whole-house rather than single-trade: kitchen remodels, bathroom remodels, basement finishing, whole-home remodels and additions. Building permits filed under his name back that up across three Massachusetts towns and six years — a $70,000 13x14 kitchen addition at his own Prospect Street address in 2013, a $40,000 complete kitchen and two-bath gut in Methuen in 2017 that took out an interior partition and put in a new HVAC system, and a $30,000 Methuen job in 2018 that combined refinished floors, new tile, a strip and re-roof, new bathroom fixtures, countertops, a resurfaced deck and new windows. He also pulled a roof-covering replacement in Brockton in 2016 and appears on a $185,000 Milton permit in 2019 that was subsequently taken over by the owner. What is missing here is any customer voice at all. BuildZoom states plainly that it has received no reviews for him, and no other directory or review platform returned a profile for this business, so there is no homeowner testimony to weigh — nothing about how he communicates, holds a schedule, or handles a problem mid-job. The BuildZoom score of 91, which the site ranks in the top 37% of Massachusetts licensed contractors, is calculated from permits, licence and insurance status, not from anyone's experience of being his customer, and should not be read as a satisfaction score. The credentials need checking directly. BuildZoom lists three Massachusetts numbers for him — construction supervisor CS-086609 marked active, and two different Home Improvement Contractor registrations, 204121 and 188655, each marked inactive and each described as having been cancelled at some point — while a separate sentence on the same page asserts all three were active when last checked. Massachusetts requires an active HIC registration for non-structural residential home improvement work, and access to the Home Improvement Contractor Guaranty Fund depends on it. He is a plausible call for a homeowner who wants one contractor carrying a full kitchen, bath or addition through permitting in the Merrimack Valley. Before signing, ask him directly for his current HIC registration number and verify it, along with CS-086609, with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and the Department of Public Safety, and ask for references from recent jobs since none are published anywhere.