Stephen M Raymond

Stephen M Raymond is a one-man general contracting operation run from 605 Forest St in Methuen, and almost everything known about it comes from the paper trail rather than from customers. The permit history is the real record here. BuildZoom shows three jobs on file: a Methuen deck framed in pressure-treated lumber with Trex decking, a Methuen hip-roof strip and reshingle, and an older Falmouth plumbing permit. That is the shape of a small residential builder taking work as it comes, not a crew running simultaneous projects. What is missing is any customer voice at all. BuildZoom carries no reviews for the business, and no other directory or review platform turned up a profile that is actually this Methuen contractor rather than a namesake elsewhere. Its BuildZoom score of 0 is worth understanding correctly: the site sets it to zero because it could not confirm an active licence, so it reflects paperwork, not anyone's opinion of the work. The thing to settle before calling is licensing. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-090071, with an expiration of 01 March 2024 and a status the site describes as at one point cancelled, alongside a home improvement contractor registration, 164075, in the same inactive state. Structural work in Massachusetts requires a current construction supervisor licence, and non-structural residential remodeling requires an active HIC registration - the registration is also what backs a homeowner's access to the Guaranty Fund. Neither of those numbers was confirmed as current against the state registry here. So: a real Methuen builder with a verifiable local permit history and no reputational track record to read. If you are considering him, ask directly for current licence and registration numbers and check them yourself with the Department of Public Safety and the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and ask for recent references, since there are none published.