Thomas A Leonard

One hundred and twenty-two permits, and BuildZoom holds not one review. That is the whole shape of Thomas A Leonard's public record: a deep paper trail of work and no customer voice attached to any of it. He pulls permits across Essex County from an address on Garden Street in West Newbury, and additions are the bulk of it. A two-level addition with a shed dormer in Beverly in 2024. A deck, a full vinyl re-side, all new windows and a structural beam on a house in Peabody in 2022. A shed dormer over a bedroom in Marblehead that same autumn. The typical permit runs around $94,000, which puts him on real projects rather than odd jobs. He trades under his own name and the licences sit under it too. BuildZoom lists an active Massachusetts construction supervisor licence and an active home improvement contractor registration, both held by Thomas A Leonard — the ordinary pairing for someone doing structural and non-structural residential work alike. Those are BuildZoom's own records rather than the state's, so confirm the numbers with Massachusetts before you sign anything. Two permits are worth asking about directly. The 2022 Marblehead dormer is marked suspended, and a 30-by-30 accessory dwelling unit permitted at his own Garden Street address in May 2025 at $175,700 is marked expired. Permit statuses lapse for administrative reasons at least as often as substantive ones, so ask rather than assume. For an addition, a dormer or a re-side on the North Shore, he has more permitted work behind him than most one-man builders. You will be judging it on the jobs themselves — ask for two recent addresses you can go and look at, and for the current licence numbers.