Joshua P Lopresti

Joshua P Lopresti trades as LoPresti Contracting, a two-person sole proprietorship reachable at (781) 727-6573, with Joshua LoPresti as owner and Zoe LoPresti as co-owner. The Better Business Bureau puts the business start at April 1, 2000 and lists the address as 2 Michael Road, Maynard; the permit record files the same phone number against 60 Webster St, Groton. The Better Business Bureau gives an A+ rating and separately states the business is not BBB Accredited, which are two different things. The stated trade is broad general contracting for both residential and commercial customers: kitchen and bath renovations, siding, roofing, window and door replacement, additions including garages, porches and decks, basement remodeling and building restoration. The permit record is where this contractor is most legible, and it points hard at damage restoration. Seventy-eight projects are on file, including a $1,170,000 fire rebuild of five condominiums and a commercial space at 1 Glenwood St in Malden, $450,000 two-family gut renovations in Malden and Brighton, and a $408,986 fire remodel in Mattapan. One Marblehead job appears: a $268,696 fire-damage repair at 11 Hathaway Rd in 2021. The written record is thin and it is split. In a December 2022 review, a homeowner described Josh as punctual and collaborative on finish choices, praised the craftsmanship, and said the electrician and plumber he brought in were equally good. Against that, an April 2019 review describing a roughly $30,000 kitchen, bedroom and deck project is severe: the writer said the contractor disappeared after almost a year with work inexcusably incomplete, kitchen cabinets left supported by visible shims, a promised one-week closet stretching from August to February, an outlet covered over and never replaced, a dishwasher reinstalled incorrectly, and replaced windows left in the yard. The same review said no cost updates or schedules were ever provided, only requests for progress payments. That review names "Gary" throughout rather than Josh, and the permit directory lists Gary J Lopresti, Gary J Lopresti Jr and Gary Lopresti as the people on the record, so it is not certain whose work it describes. On credentials, a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor licence, CS-082761, is listed as active; a second Construction Supervisor number, CS-082284, and a Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration, 174417, are both listed as cancelled. All of those come from a directory rather than the state registry. Home Improvement Contractor registration is the one that matters for kitchen, bath and addition work, so confirm its current status directly with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation before signing anything. This is a plausible call for fire, flood and storm restoration on a multi-family or a badly damaged house, where the permit history is genuinely deep. Ask who will actually run your job and get their name in writing, confirm the HIC registration with the state, and insist on a written schedule and a written payment-milestone breakdown up front — the one detailed complaint on file is squarely about the absence of both.