Marcos Devers

Marcos Devers runs Marcos Devers Construction from 61 Woodland St in Lawrence, and his BuildZoom profile credits him with 26 years in construction. A Better Business Bureau file listing him as President/CEO — for MDJ Incorporated, also known as M D J Engineering — puts that business at 36 years, incorporated in November 1989, with four employees. What is documented here is permits rather than praise. BuildZoom counts 180 permitted projects all-time and at least 26 in the last three years — 17 in 2023, eight in 2024 and one in 2025 — at a typical permit value around $28,825, with one job in the $100,000–$250,000 band. The mix leans toward kitchen remodels and home additions, six each, plus three commercial renovations, and the work is spread across Methuen, Lawrence, Haverhill, Lowell, Boston, Fitchburg and Springfield. Two of the 2023 Methuen permits were for remediating work another contractor had performed without permits. The Better Business Bureau listing describes a wider range: structural and architectural design, zoning, site planning and permitting, general contracting, house repairs and remodeling, commercial building and remodeling, and new construction. It carries an A+ grade, though the business is not BBB Accredited. Two things are worth raising before you book. BuildZoom has received no reviews for the business, so its BuildZoom score of 101 — 88th percentile of 139,240 Massachusetts contractors — rests on permit history alone rather than on anyone's experience working with him. And its licensing block contradicts itself: a status of "Not Required" that BuildZoom says it verified in August 2018 sits alongside three inactive records, including Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration #143901, each of which BuildZoom describes as at one point cancelled. He is a plausible call for a permitted kitchen remodel or addition in the Merrimack Valley if a long permit trail is what you want to see. Ask him directly for his current Home Improvement Contractor registration number and confirm its standing with the state, and ask for recent client references.