Reginaldo Piccinato

One hundred eighty-one permits, and not a single customer review. That is the whole shape of Reginaldo Piccinato as an outsider can see it — a Winthrop electrician at 164 Court Road whose name shows up over and over in Massachusetts building-permit records, and nowhere that homeowners write things down. BuildZoom's tally of that permit history is the one substantial thing to go on: 181 permitted projects on record, roughly ten of them in the past three years, weighted toward electrical work and home additions, at a typical permit value near $18,000. That is a working tradesman's ledger, not a marketing page. It says he pulls permits and does mid-sized jobs; it says nothing about how those jobs went. The licensing picture is the part to ask about directly. BuildZoom prints a "no active license on file" alert on the profile, lists two Massachusetts home improvement contractor registrations — #196947 and #176401 — both as inactive after being cancelled, and shows a Newton electrical-contractor licence it last verified as expiring in July 2022. None of that is a registry confirmation, and directory licence records attach to the wrong business often enough that they are worth checking rather than trusting. But an alert about no active licence, on a trade Massachusetts does license, is a question you want answered before work starts. BuildZoom also scores him a 0, which it says does not place him in the top half of Massachusetts contractors — that score is the site's own formula, and on this profile it is driven largely by the missing active licence rather than by anything customers said. So: someone with a long, real permit record and no public reputation attached to it. If you are considering him, ask for his current electrical licence number and check it yourself against the state registry, ask for the Massachusetts HIC registration status in writing, and ask for two or three recent local references — the permit history suggests there are plenty of finished jobs to call about, even though none of those customers have written anything down.