Lighthouse Construction Co

The building-permit trail here is far more current than anything customers have written. Working out of 1140 Saratoga Street in East Boston, Lighthouse Construction Co turns up on 10 permitted projects in BuildZoom's records — four of them within the last three years — across Middleton, Somerville, Malden and Revere. The jobs span the whole range: a $2,000 porch-column replacement at one end, a $177,018 rebuild of kitchens, baths and collapsing front and rear porches at the other, with roofing, deck replacements and a restaurant buildout in between. The company's own site says it was founded in 2001 to put the customer first again in the construction business, and names the Salem Arch restoration, a full remodel of the Beverly Train Station, and Abby Lane in Boston among its projects — its own account rather than anything independently confirmed, and the page advertising 15 years of experience carries a 2016 copyright line. Written customer accounts are few and dated. In a 2017 review, a homeowner described a kitchen and bathroom job at what they called a reasonable price, where the crew found structural problems other contractors had overlooked and repaired them cheaply; they thanked Steve, and BuildZoom lists Stephen Stoddard Jr. as owner with Stephen G Stoddard as responsible person. A 2020 reviewer described a roof-and-ceiling project and said that whenever something wasn't right, it got fixed. Against those, a 2016 reviewer left one star and five words: terrible, hire someone else. Google's page averages 4 stars across 4 ratings. Licensing is where a homeowner should slow down. The state registry shows home improvement contractor registration 168871 as expired, recorded under the name Lighthouse Construction Group LLC. BuildZoom separately reports a general contractor licence #137665 that expired 09-13-2025, and a home improvement contractor licence of that same number listed inactive and, per Mass.gov Consumer Affairs, cancelled at one point — the reason BuildZoom scores the profile 0. That combination, real permitted work but nothing current on the licensing side, makes the first phone call easy to script. Ask whether the home improvement registration has been renewed and exactly which entity name the contract will be written under, then check that name yourself on the state's licence lookup before you sign. Massachusetts home improvement registration is what opens the state Guaranty Fund if a job goes wrong, and on a six-figure remodel that is worth settling before a deposit moves.