REC Consultants

REC Consultants is a Winthrop home-inspection outfit that has been incorporated in Massachusetts since 1990 and still runs small — three employees, with Robert Clarke listed as president and owner. Its written record is close to empty. Google carries a single 5-star rating with nothing said, and neither the BBB nor BuildZoom has collected a review or a complaint about the company. The BBB lists it as not accredited and issues no rating at all, saying it lacks sufficient information. Two directories describe the licensing differently, and both are worth pinning down before you book. The BBB profile lists a Massachusetts home-inspector licence number for the company; BuildZoom lists a separate Massachusetts contractor registration, #103398, which it shows as expired since July 2020 and inactive, noting the status was at one point cancelled — the same number it labels General Contractor in one place and Home Improvement Contractor in another. For a home inspection, the licence that matters is the Massachusetts home-inspector registration, so ask for the current number and check it against the state board yourself. Three-plus decades in one town counts for something; the thin public trail means you will be judging this one on the phone call rather than on what past clients wrote.