Mother Construction Corp.

A one-star review from August 2022 sits in the middle of this company's Houzz page, and it is the most detailed account anyone has written about them. The homeowner described handing over a significant deposit and then months of being ignored, a rotation of designers and project managers they had to re-brief each time, and work starting before the materials were on site. Mother Construction answered publicly on the page. That is one side of a short, split history. On the same platform, a homeowner writing in October 2022 said a finished basement and master bathroom came out the way they wanted, and in May 2022 another credited Lori and her team with weekly progress meetings through a kitchen renovation. Its two Angi reviews, both from 2019 and both five stars, describe a fully gutted bathroom finished inside the estimated timeline with the dust and mess contained, and a design-and-coordination job. Five written accounts in all, the newest from October 2022. The company works out of Beverly with a Needham Heights mailing address, and its BBB file names Lori Bovarnick as president, gives a November 2018 incorporation, three employees, and an A+ grade without accreditation. Houzz describes it as a design/build general contractor founded and run by Bovarnick. BuildZoom records 13 permitted residential projects across eastern Massachusetts in 2021 and 2022, valued between roughly $6,000 and $207,000 — real work, on the books. Licensing is the thing to settle before you call, because the sources do not agree. BBB records a Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation registration numbered 148362. BuildZoom shows a different Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #200009, as inactive, says Mass.gov listed it as cancelled at one point, and puts an alert on the profile that there is no active license on file; the City of Newton numbers it lists were last seen expiring in January 2023. None of that was checked against the state registry here, so ask for the current registration number and look it up yourself. Two smaller things: the Houzz profile is marked suspended, and Angi's page claims 23 years of experience against the 2018 start on the BBB file. For a bathroom, basement or kitchen remodel on the North Shore, this is a small owner-run outfit with permitted work behind it and one serious, specific complaint on the record. Get the licence status confirmed, and get the crew assignment and materials schedule in writing before any deposit changes hands.