Budget Abatement

Two of the most telling reviews of Budget Abatement are the ones where nothing got removed. A homeowner whose plumber warned about asbestos was told, after testing, that it wasn't asbestos at all; another got a negative lab result on the exact date promised. In a trade where the scare does most of the selling, that's worth knowing up front. The Methuen company handles the job nobody plans for — asbestos found under floor tile, wrapped around heat pipes, on a roof or on siding, usually flagged by an inspector mid-sale. Its own site adds mold remediation and interior and exterior demolition. Alex is the name on the site for quotes; the BBB profile names Alejandro Garibay as manager and grades the business A+, though it is not BBB accredited. The written record runs 2024 to 2026 and stays consistent: 4.8 stars across 15 ratings on Angi, the same on HomeAdvisor, and 4.5 from 8 on Google. Two words repeat — quick and clean. In a January 2025 review, a homeowner who took the lowest of four quotes for asbestos siding removal described being booked within days; a December 2025 customer described a full containment set up while they worked with DEP, with the techs arriving early and cleaning up behind themselves. Recent Google reviews, several written in Spanish, land on the same beats after basement abatement: on time, professional, basement left spotless. Price is the thing to pin down before signing. A March 2025 Google reviewer said a price quoted over the phone came back $500 higher on the written estimate. And in April 2026, a customer happy with the removal itself showed up on time to meet the third-party inspector and found everyone had already left. Get the number in writing, and confirm who is meeting the independent inspector, and when. There's also a gap in the company's own story: the website reports 30 years in business, while BBB lists the LLC as incorporated in November 2022 with three years in business and one employee. Ask about it directly if depth of experience matters to you. The state Supplier Diversity Office certifies Budget Abatement as a Minority Business Enterprise through November 2027, and BuildZoom's profile lists a Massachusetts asbestos contractor license number for the company. For a mid-sale asbestos find in the Merrimack Valley, they're a sensible call — fast to schedule, priced at the low end of competing bids, and willing to tell you the test came back clean. Settle the written price and the inspection handoff first.