RSA Builds, LLC

RSA Builds is Rick Amodei's one-man general contracting outfit in Carlisle, and he writes his own website in the first person: 'I am a general contractor with a broad range of in-house capabilities'. The reach is wider than the address suggests — Boston and MetroWest, with named jobs in Newton, Wellesley, Rockport, Plymouth and a Lewis Wharf apartment renovation in Boston. Start with the licence, because two sources disagree and one of them is wrong. The Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration #190362 is ACTIVE in the state registry, held in the company's own name. BuildZoom still shows it inactive, expired 01-18-2026, and gives the company a score of 0 on that basis — a stale snapshot the registry supersedes. Houzz separately lists a construction supervisor number, CS-109170, that hasn't been checked. The permit trail is the most concrete thing here. Thirteen permitted projects, including a $105,000 conversion of a Carlisle three-season porch and bathroom into conditioned space, an $83,000 replacement of 19 windows on a Brookline multi-family with dust mitigation required, a $23,000 Newtonville deck rebuild down to new footings, and a $20,500 Dunstable job reframing and insulating an office, chasing a roof leak and repairing plaster. Rick Amodei has also appeared before the Carlisle zoning board himself, presenting habitable-space calculations for a porch addition down to the square foot — the kind of permitting legwork homeowners usually have to chase. The customer record is where it thins out. One review exists, from December 2021, and it is four sentences long: 'The RSA folks are as good as it gets. They did a fantastic job building a rear deck for us'. A separate listing on Growcycle carries a homeowner saying their renovation team 'respected our budget and timeline while providing high-quality work', but that is a directory quote, not a platform review. One account cannot support a rating, so none is given. Good fit for a MetroWest homeowner who wants an owner-operator handling permits and inspections directly on a deck, window or single-room job. Ask for two or three recent references and confirm the CS number yourself — the registration checks out, the track record just isn't written down anywhere yet.