Jose C Alves Construction

Thirty-five permits and nobody has written a word about them. Jose C Alves Construction shows up in building departments, not in review sites. Jose Alves runs it from 661 Alden Street in Ludlow, out in western Massachusetts, and BuildZoom's own blurb puts the company at 19 years of experience. The permit trail says the heavier work is new construction: several single-family dwellings erected in Springfield and Indian Orchard between 2018 and 2021, in the $216,000 to $274,000 range. Alongside that sit smaller jobs — a kitchen and living-room reframing in Malden, a rear deck, a roof replacement in Brockton, a garage demolition, an addition in Holbrook — reaching as far east as Brockton and Dighton and running through 2025. BuildZoom says it holds no reviews at all, which is why no rating appears here. Two things to do before hiring. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, 166611, and a construction supervisor licence, CS-093297, both marked active — those are the directory's entries, so ask for the numbers and check them at the state yourself. And because nothing is written about this company anywhere, ask for two or three references from jobs finished in the last year and call them.