JL & Sons Contracting

JL & Sons Contracting is a two-person general contracting outfit run by Joel Luis out of 14 Glenwood Rd in Somerville, in business since 2016 and registered with Massachusetts as a Home Improvement Contractor under number 181472, which the state registry currently shows as active in Luis's name. The clearest picture of what they actually do comes from the building-permit record rather than from customer reviews. Twenty permitted projects between 2015 and 2023 sit under the company's name, concentrated in Somerville and Malden, and they are the bread-and-butter of an owner-operator remodeler: gut renovations of first- and second-floor apartments, bathroom and kitchen remodels, dormers and rear additions, roof and cedar-shingle replacement, and a basement floor poured new. The valuations span from a $2,500 wall removal to a $400,000 two-family conversion on Vernon Street, with several jobs in the $100,000-$325,000 range — a range that suggests they are comfortable running a whole-house project rather than only punch-list work. First-hand feedback is genuinely thin. One Somerville neighbour recommended them in 2024, calling them a local guy who does good work and deals fairly. That is the only customer voice on record, and one voice — however warm — is not a track record, which is why the rating here sits near the middle of the scale and the confidence is low rather than a reflection of anything anyone said against them. If you are weighing them for a Somerville or Malden renovation, the sensible next step is to ask directly for references from the permitted jobs above, since those are documented and recent enough to check, and to confirm the HIC registration and insurance in writing before work starts.