Julians Painting Remodeling & Design

One review, six years ago, two words long: "Very meticulous...". That is the entire written history of Julian's Painting Remodeling & Design, and it is the first thing a homeowner should know. The company works out of 204 Washington Street in Marblehead. BBB records it as a Massachusetts LLC started and incorporated in July 2020, with two employees — Julian Nohava, the owner, and Jousette Anaya, its manager — and files it under painting contractors. Its listed work is interior and exterior painting, paint removal, specialty painting and small painting or staining jobs. The company says it speaks Spanish as well as English. BBB grades it A+ while stating plainly that it is not a BBB accredited business; those are two separate facts and neither implies the other. No complaints and no government actions appear on its file, and no licence number is published anywhere — BBB simply points readers to the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. One claim is worth raising directly. On Angi the company says it has 'over 16 years experience in the Home Improvement industry', while BBB dates the business itself to 17 July 2020 and puts its years in business at six. If sixteen years matters to your decision, ask whether that number describes the owner's own career or the company's trading history, because it cannot describe both. This is a small, young Marblehead painting outfit with an A+ BBB file and almost no public track record. Ask for recent addresses you can look at, ask for the HIC registration number and check it with the state, and treat the sixteen-year figure as a question rather than a credential.