Ryan Property Maintenance

Ryan Property Maintenance is a one-owner outfit run by James Ryan out of 2 Laura Lane in Newton, New Hampshire, working across the Massachusetts line into the Merrimack Valley and the North Shore. There is no customer star rating anywhere for this business — BuildZoom, which lists it, states outright that it has received zero reviews. What there is instead is a paper trail of town building permits, and it is the more useful record here. It runs from a 2009 exterior job in Methuen — slate roof repairs, south wall and entry stair repairs, plus pressure washing and painting a whole building — through a 2014 steel beam installed in a Methuen basement, a 2015 two-bathroom gut in a 1923 Danvers house valued at $29,800, and a 2023 structure demolition in Groveland at $24,200. That is a wide range of work for a small operation: structural, exterior, bathroom and teardown, all under one name. It is also a thin recent record. BuildZoom counts only one permitted project in the past three years, so the bulk of what can be shown about this contractor is a decade or more old. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor licence, number 161483, and says it checked it as active in March 2026 — that is the directory's claim, not a state confirmation, so look the number up yourself on the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation site. Worth asking directly: who does the work now, what has been built recently, and for two or three references from jobs finished in the last year, since there are no reviews to stand in for them.