A Middlesex County renovation company has been named in nearly 70, rather than exactly 70, lawsuits across Massachusetts, with most of those cases filed over the past six years and legal judgments against it now topping $700,000. Homeowners describe gutted properties, unpaid subcontractors, and a project in Melrose that left a couple without electricity or running water just as they needed to move out.
The company, Cutting Edge Homes, kept taking on renovation work even after a Massachusetts state agency suspended its home improvement contractor registration last summer for multiple violations, according to an investigation by NBC Boston. Reporter Ryan Kath found that the vast majority of the lawsuits against the Ashland-based firm and its owner, Sean Cutting, have piled up in just the last six years, and that roughly 40 subcontractors sued the company over unpaid work.
Jonathan and Myla Lococo hired Cutting Edge Homes for design and construction work on their Melrose home, and the project went sideways fast. “We started getting calls from subcontractors that weren’t showing up because they hadn’t been paid,” Jonathan said, according to the outlet’s report. By August 2025, when the couple needed to leave their condominium, the property was gutted to the studs with no electricity or running water, and the Lococos estimate the ordeal has cost them about $100,000 while moving into their home a year later than planned.
A Trail of Judgments and Disputed Claims
The station’s tally found more than $700,000 in legal judgments against Cutting Edge Homes, not counting 15 open lawsuits the company is actively disputing, with claims for damages in those cases totaling millions of dollars. Separately, 33 complaints were settled or voluntarily dismissed for undisclosed amounts, and the company was sued over a $300,000 loan it allegedly never repaid. Electrician Jeff Boyer took the company to small claims court and won a $7,400 judgment, according to the docket cited in the report…