JT Electrical Services

JT Electrical Services runs out of Roxbury, working repairs, rewiring, new installations, and lighting design across Boston's residential and commercial buildings, with emergency calls answered around the clock by its own account. The company says it's been doing this for more than 20 years, and Boston's permit records back up a long operating history: 192 electrical permits filed in the city since 2011, with 72% of rated permits closed — a rate that beats the city median. Third-party ratings are consistently on the positive side but built on small samples: 4.4 stars from 7 Google ratings, a 5.0 average across 11 reviews on Porch, and 4.3 on TrustAnalytica. BuildZoom, which scores contractors on permit and project history rather than star ratings, puts this one at 98 under owner Jesus Tejeda. One site that tracks contractors in the area called out the obvious caveat this summer: with only 7 public reviews, that 4.4-star average is too small a sample to lean on heavily. The permit history cuts both ways, too — 61 of the 170 rated jobs are still listed open, worth asking about directly rather than assuming they're all closed out. This reads as a smaller, owner-run shop with a longer paper trail than most of its size — a reasonable call for everyday electrical work in Boston, but one where confirming current licensing and getting firm answers on open permits and timelines matters more than it would for an outfit with a deeper public review history.