New Horizon Contracting, LLC

New Horizon Contracting is a Cambridge-based outfit that Jose Rivera runs personally — his name shows up in nearly every review and reply, and customers describe dealing with him directly rather than a front desk. The kind of job people hire them for skews toward masonry: brick and stone repair, block wall work, and paver installs come up again and again across both Thumbtack and Angi. The clearest theme in the record is precision on that kind of work. In a 2024 review, one customer needed a small brick repair and pointed to how clean and crisp the edges turned out, attaching before-and-after photos. Another customer, also writing in 2024, said Jose responded fast with an estimate and worked within budget to get pavers installed. A 2019 Angi review — the oldest on file — described a full portico rebuild finished ahead of schedule, calling it worth six stars instead of the usual five. Ratings back that up: 4.9 stars on Thumbtack across 23 reviews and 4.9 on Angi across 7, with ten dated reviews on file running from 2019 through 2025 and no negative ones among them. The most recent, from early 2025, covered an indoor painting and bedroom remodel job praised for being timely and well communicated — so the range runs past masonry into general remodeling and painting too. One thing worth asking about directly: the company's own tenure claims don't line up between platforms — Thumbtack's profile lists 11 years in business, Angi's lists 26 years of experience. Neither number is independently verified, so it's worth just asking Jose how long the company has actually been operating. For brick, stone, or paver work — or a smaller remodeling job like a bathroom or bedroom — this is a contractor with a real, positive Cambridge-area paper trail and a hands-on owner. Worth asking about that tenure discrepancy, and getting a written estimate before the crew starts, the way past customers describe doing.