Stephen A Karpowich Construction

Twenty-six permits and no reviews. Stephen A Karpowich Construction works out of 40 Raymond Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, and the family name appears three times over on its listing — Stephen, Jeffrey and Kenneth Karpowich. The permit record is the only real account of the work, and it is a coastal-town renovation record. A $200,000 sunroom and master closet addition in 2022 on Bridge Street. A $150,000 whole-house job in 2023 replacing windows, the front entry, the kitchen, two bathrooms and the living area without changing the footprint. Condo kitchen and bath renovations with new exterior windows and doors, deck rebuilds, and a 2018 Beacon Hill job replacing four-over-four true-divided-light windows and repairing slate and copper roofing. That last one says something: this is a crew comfortable on old, detail-heavy houses. What is missing is any homeowner's account. No review has been posted anywhere reached here, so there is nothing on scheduling, budget discipline, cleanup, or how a problem got handled — the things that separate two contractors with similar permits. The licensing needs care. BuildZoom lists six Massachusetts records under this name across four types: a construction supervisor licence and a home improvement contractor registration it describes as active, a City of Newton residential builder entry printed 'Active' while stating a December 2022 expiry, and three more — a second construction supervisor number, a plumber's licence and an older HIC registration — that it describes as cancelled. The same page then prints a summary line asserting all six are active, contradicting its own labels. None of it was confirmed against the state registry here. A construction supervisor licence alongside an HIC registration is the normal, separate-licence shape for this kind of work, so the count is not itself a worry — the contradictions are. If your project is a renovation or addition on an older North Shore house, the permit history lines up closely with that work. Ask for the current construction supervisor and HIC numbers directly and check them yourself — the Department of Public Safety and the Office of Consumer Affairs both publish status free — and ask for three references from jobs finished in the last two years, since the public record gives you the projects but nothing about how they went.