Mother Construction Corp

Mother Construction Corp is a Beverly, Massachusetts design-build company founded and run by Lori Bovarnick, who describes it as a female-owned firm that folds design into construction at no extra cost and works across greater Boston and the North Shore. The Better Business Bureau records the corporation as started and incorporated on 6 November 2018 with three employees. The work is full-scope general contracting: kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, decks, roofing, windows, siding, masonry and restoration [E336248, E336306, E336261]. Thirteen permitted projects are on file, sampled in Manchester, Marblehead, Topsfield, Revere, Malden, Brookline, Maynard, Stow and Plymouth and dated 2021 and 2022 [E336262, E336264], alongside five project galleries on Houzz. The most important thing a homeowner needs to know is the licensing. The Massachusetts registry shows Home Improvement Contractor registration 200009, held by MOTHER CONSTRUCTION CORP. itself, in SUSPENDED status. That is a state-registry result about this exact company, not a directory guess. BuildZoom independently flags the business with an alert reading 'No active license on file' and gives it a score of 0, and it lists the same number 200009 as inactive and at one point cancelled. The BBB file, meanwhile, records a different number entirely, 148362, and the company's own Houzz text says only 'licensed and fully insured' with no number at all. Massachusetts homeowners lose access to the Guaranty Fund when a contractor's HIC registration is not in good standing, so this needs resolving before any deposit changes hands. Customer opinion is genuinely split rather than thin-and-glowing. Houzz shows 3.7 stars from three reviews. Two are positive: a customer in October 2022 described a finished basement and master bathroom they were happy with, and one in May 2022 praised weekly progress meetings on a kitchen renovation and named Lori directly. The third, from August 2022, is a detailed one-star account describing months of silence after a significant deposit, repeated changes of project manager, materials missing from site, misplaced permits and an appliance swapped without the customer's agreement. The BBB grades the business A+, and separately states it is not BBB accredited — two different facts [E336247, E336250]. The Houzz profile itself now carries a 'Business Profile Suspended' banner. If you are considering them, do one thing first: ask for the current Home Improvement Contractor registration number and check it yourself at the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, then ask directly about the 2022 complaint and how deposits, materials scheduling and project-manager continuity are handled now.