Keith E Rhodes

Start with the public record, because it is the most decision-relevant thing here. A 2015 Massachusetts government announcement states that Keith Rhodes, then 54, of Swampscott pleaded guilty in Essex Superior Court to seven counts of larceny by embezzlement over $250 and seven counts of failure to pay prevailing wages, alongside a Topsfield co-defendant. That announcement dates to October 2015, and nothing in the material here speaks to what has happened since. It is a decade old - but it is a conviction involving money and payroll, and a homeowner deserves to weigh it. The credential itself is in order. His Massachusetts plumbing licence, 11433-PL-M, is active on the state registry with Keith Rhodes as the holder of record. The work on file is thin but real. BuildZoom records three permitted jobs: gas permits for cook stoves at a Salem multifamily in 2018 and a basement boiler in Salem in 2020, and further back a $47,000 plumbing fit-out of an urgent care clinic on Needham Street in Newton Highlands in 2015. BuildZoom also lists two City of Newton records under the same licence number - plumbing contractor and heater contractor - both marked inactive and at one point cancelled, and it scores the business zero on the grounds that no active licence is on file, which the state registry contradicts. No customer review appears on any source reached. If you are considering him: the state licence checks out, so the questions to ask are about the 2015 case and how it concluded, and about getting scope and price in writing before work starts.