Purple Cow Painting

Purple Cow Painting Co is a one-person painting business at 273 Atlantic Avenue in Marblehead. BBB dates the business to 1 January 2019 and puts it at seven years in business; its file was opened in January 2020. No customer has written about it anywhere we can reach. BuildZoom's review section is empty and BBB shows no reviews and no complaints. BBB's 'Not Rated' status is an absence of information, not a poor grade — the bureau says it does not have enough to go on. The one thing to raise before hiring is the registration. BuildZoom lists Massachusetts number 144557 against the company as lapsed, giving an expiry of 17 October 2014 and reporting that the status was at one point cancelled. That date sits more than four years before the business's own start date, and BuildZoom labels the same number a painter's licence in one place and a home improvement contractor registration in another, so the record may belong to an earlier trading period. It is a directory's account, not a state verification, and nothing here confirms a current registration either way. Ask the owner directly for the current HIC registration number and check it against the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation before any deposit — that one call resolves everything ambiguous here.