Jose A Morales

Twenty-one permits filed under one man's name, and they trace a narrowing arc. Jose A Morales works out of 49 Blanchard St in Lawrence, and the early record is heavy exterior work — a $158,454 hardiplank siding job on Geneva Ave in Boston in 2022, $33,000 of rotten siding and plywood replacement in Dorchester in 2017, asphalt shingle roofs stripped to the decking in Brighton and Dorchester, a $33,250 EPDM flat roof in Braintree, vinyl siding plus a 20-by-40 deck in Methuen. The recent work looks nothing like that. Since 2022 the filings are almost all small residential electrical permits, and most of them are in Methuen: bathroom fans and switches swapped out on Partridge Rd, Spruce St, Prospect St and Haverhill St, living room and kitchen wiring on Chestnut Way, a salon remodel on Lawrence St. Add a full rough-in rewire in East Boston with smoke detectors, bathroom fan work in Malden and Everett, and drywall in Malden in 2025. BuildZoom's own price breakdown matches the shift — nine of the last eleven jobs came in under $5,000. No one has reviewed him anywhere. BuildZoom says plainly it has never received a review, and its score of 0 is not a verdict on his work — the site explains it is 0 only because it could not confirm an active licence. That licence is the thing to settle. BuildZoom lists Massachusetts registration 185914 as inactive and at one point cancelled, with a stated expiry of 08-31-2018, and it describes that same number two different ways on the same page — once as a home improvement contractor registration, once as a general contractor licence. None of it was confirmed against the state, and no holder name appears, so treat it as the directory's claim rather than a settled fact. Given how much of the recent work is electrical, the practical step before hiring is to ask him directly which licences he currently holds — the electrical licence for wiring work and the home improvement registration for the rest — and check the numbers yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and the Board of State Examiners of Electricians.