Paul J Ferrara Contractor Builder

Paul Ferrara builds and remodels out of 24 Maple Rd in Winthrop, and the permits filed under his name show what that has meant in practice: a gut kitchen on Marlborough Street in Boston, another in Brighton, second-floor bathrooms in Arlington, twenty-eight replacement windows and a rebuilt front porch in Milton, a strip-and-reroof in Newton Center. The catch is when. Every permit BuildZoom samples falls between 2008 and 2014, valued from about $8,900 up to $63,772. Nothing newer appears there, and no customer has written a review of the business on the site. Licensing is worth checking yourself. BuildZoom lists four Newton municipal licences — general contractor, residential builder, building contractor and electrical contractor — and says each carried a December 2022 expiration when it last looked. The Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration it lists, #116124, is shown as inactive, with a note that the status was at one point cancelled. On the same page BuildZoom prints a score of 0 and an alert reading "No active license on file". If you are weighing him for a kitchen or a bath, ask what he has built in the last few years, and get current licence and insurance certificates in hand before anything else.