Leo Rabello General Contracting

Leo Rabello General Contracting — also listed as LR Contracting — is a Woburn, MA outfit whose reviews keep circling back to one thing: lead-certified renovation work. Two of the four accounts on file are specifically about de-leading and lead-abatement jobs, and a third mentions Leo Rabello and his crew being lead-certified for a bigger renovation — a specialty that shows up again and again in a small but consistent written record running from 2017 to 2020. The most detailed account, a 2017 review, describes a relationship that started in 2005 and ran 12 years across a three-family rental property and the reviewer's own home: more than 25 replaced windows and a slider, repaired porches and lally columns, stripped wallpaper, indoor and outdoor painting, new vinyl siding, and a refinished hardwood floor. Another 2017 review describes hiring the company in 2014 to renovate a 1911 Beacon Hill tenement, with 8 of 10 apartments finished on time and within budget by a crew the reviewer called hard-working and easy to work with. A 2020 review of a lead-abatement job said Leo gave a reasonable quote, showed up quickly, and finished on schedule — with one small note that he answered email faster than the phone. Houzz shows the company at 4.8 stars from those four reviews, and BuildZoom lists an active Massachusetts home improvement contractor license (#198888) for the business, which it says it verified as of August 2026. BuildZoom also shows two older Newton contractor registrations (#95799) as inactive — worth a quick check with the state if a project's scope calls for it, since that status isn't independently confirmed here. For a lead-safe renovation, a multi-year rental turnaround, or general remodeling work spanning several trades, the written history here is short but specific and consistently positive — the kind of company people seem to call back for years, not just once.