Stella Construction

Stella Construction is a one-person, Fall River-based general-contracting operation run by Craig Stella, in business since late 2012 according to BBB. The clearest concern on file is BBB's own grade: an F, which BBB attributes specifically to "failure to have a required competency license," with two separate licensing alerts noted on the profile. The written record is thin and split. In a January 2025 review, a Lincoln customer said they paid Craig $15,750 to start a project that never got underway — six weeks of unanswered calls, radiators missing from the property, another $6,000 spent on "his electrician" that led nowhere, and $5,500 more to hire someone else to finish the job; the customer says a police report and a contractors-board complaint were both filed. Against that, a mid-2024 Google review described a difficult bathroom floor replacement finished in two days at what the reviewer called an excellent price, and an undated BBB review praised flexible pricing and good communication on a master-bathroom reconstruction. BBB's own displayed customer testimony is positive even as its own grade is an F — the two signals on that page point in opposite directions. Before hiring, confirm Craig Stella currently holds the competency license Massachusetts requires for this trade, and ask for recent, verifiable references given how sharply the record diverges.