Michael F Kelleher

Michael F Kelleher works out of Tewksbury, and the clearest thing in his record is a run of exterior and renovation permits across the North Shore and Merrimack Valley — ten permitted projects in total, three of them in the last three years. The most substantial recent job is a $60,000 permit at 152 Elm Street in Marblehead in 2023 to install new siding, trim, soffit and fascia — a full envelope job rather than a patch. Elsewhere the permits cover a $31,400 kitchen remodel in Newburyport that included framing a new triple 2x12 header for a three-wide window, a $38,260 master-bathroom remodel also in Newburyport, a deck in Tewksbury, building and electrical permits at a Lynn address across 2024 and 2025, and strip-and-reroof jobs in Rowley and Woburn some years back. That mix — siding and roofing on the outside, kitchens and baths on the inside — is a fair picture of a general renovation contractor. The licence records are where you need to be careful, and they are worth raising with him directly. Two different Massachusetts Construction Supervisor numbers, CS-095846 and CS-055104, are both listed as simultaneously active for one person, which is not how that licence works — one of them very likely belongs to someone else. The listing itself hints at why: it records three name variants, Michael F Kelleher and Michael Kelleher as owners and a Michael J Kelleher as responsible person, differing only by middle initial. A Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration, 166306, is also on file and is shown as inactive and at one point cancelled. None of that is evidence of wrongdoing, but it does mean you should not take any of these numbers on trust. Ask him for his own Construction Supervisor number and his current HIC registration number, then check them yourself — the CS licence with the Department of Public Safety, the HIC registration with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. Confirm the full name on the licence matches the name that will be on your contract. There are also no reviews of him anywhere, so nothing is publicly known about scheduling, communication or how a problem gets resolved. He is a plausible call for siding, roofing, a kitchen or a bathroom on the North Shore, with the caveat that you will be doing the verification yourself: two or three references from recent jobs, both licence numbers confirmed at the state under the right name, and current liability and workers' compensation certificates.