Julio & Son Construction

Julio & Sons Construction has strung together nineteen straight five-star reviews since 2020 — not one negative account among them. The New Bedford, MA general contractor says it's founded and run by Julio De Souza Jr., and covers residential and light-commercial work across the South Coast of Massachusetts, from New Bedford and Fall River out toward Cape Cod and into Rhode Island. The jobs people describe are the kind that test a contractor's follow-through. One customer credited the crew with holding to their original quote through a run of mid-project changes while coordinating directly with the town and an architect's plans — a permitted, multi-trade job, not a quick patch. Another had a bathroom rebuilt after water damage; Julio's team worked through the insurance paperwork alongside them and got the room back to how it looked before. In a 2025 review, a customer whose wood floors had been damaged described Julio and his manager Ryan coming out to measure everything and explain the plan before starting — "it came out beautiful." Kitchen cabinets, apartment flooring, and a cottage repaint round out the smaller jobs on file. The written record does run back a while: three of the reviews date to 2020, well before the period weighed most heavily, so part of what's here reflects work from several years back rather than this year. What holds steady across that span is the tone — reviewers keep landing on the same handful of words: reliable, professional, clean, quick to respond. There's nothing here to flag — no complaints, no lapsed paperwork, nothing pulling against the praise. What's worth nailing down before booking, since it isn't spelled out anywhere on file, is licensing and insurance specifics for your particular project, plus a written scope and timeline, given how much the coordination on bigger jobs seems to matter to past customers. For a homeowner facing a real renovation — an addition, a bathroom rebuild, a multi-trade job that means talking to the town — this is a company with a track record of seeing that kind of project through. Get the details of your own job in writing before you start.