Reuven Laffer

The address is Weston, but the work is in Marblehead. Six of the permits filed under Reuven Laffer's name sit in that one town, and they are not small: a $410,000 ground-up single family at 1 Chestnut St permitted in 2022, a $413,500 demolish-and-rebuild at 21 Puritan Rd in 2021, and a $190,500 job at 8 May St covering siding, windows, roof, a kitchen, two bathrooms and a dormer, with a greenhouse later converted into a mudroom at the same house. That is the shape of this outfit: whole-house work rather than single rooms. Elsewhere the permits cover a $296,054 full unit renovation in Brookline in 2025, a gut renovation with a two-and-a-half storey addition in Arlington, a new single family on Forest St, and a Newton Center two-storey addition that also involved removing an asbestos siding layer. Kitchens and bathrooms show up throughout, but usually as part of a larger renovation — a 2021 job at 56 Auburndale Rd bundled kitchen, bathroom, windows and roof into one $162,750 permit. The licensing block needs a phone call. Home improvement contractor registration #160865 is listed as checked active in March 2026, and construction supervisor licence CS-100264 as checked active in June 2026 — but the same page also lists CS-100264 as inactive and once cancelled, and shows two Newton residential builder registrations as cancelled. None of it is a state verification. Twenty-four permits, 24 permits' worth of detail, and no customer accounts attached: this is a builder to judge on scope and references. Ask for the current registration numbers, confirm them with the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety and the Office of Consumer Affairs, and ask to speak to the Marblehead homeowners.