Construction By Anderson

Forty-two years in Revere, a BBB file open since 1993, and exactly one customer review carrying any text — that gap is the first thing to know about Construction by Anderson. Robert Anderson has run the company out of 92 Crystal Ave since it started in 1984, and the site describes it as a family business handling painting, siding, roofing, windows, masonry, carpentry, and kitchen, bathroom and basement remodeling. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. BuildZoom counts 137 permitted projects and scores the company 93; the BBB lists it as accredited with an A+. The customer side is where it thins out. Google shows a 3.0 average across six ratings, and the one review with anything written in it — from May 2024 — is not about the work: the writer objected to door-to-door soliciting and drew a conclusion from that alone. BuildZoom also lists a second Massachusetts home improvement contractor number, 189839, which it records as inactive and says was at one point cancelled. That is the directory's claim rather than a verified status, and it sits separately from the active registration confirmed in the state registry. The two halves of this company's public picture don't line up: an established, institutionally clean outfit with a long permit trail on one side, a middling six-rating Google average on the other, and almost nothing written by customers to explain either. If you call, ask for references from recent jobs of the same type as yours, and get the scope and price in writing before work starts.