Do not hire! James K Pray Jr. stole our deposit over a year ago and has not paid it back despite many requests and a court judgement against him. Check out all the BBB complaints, yelp reviews, and court records and you will see that he did the same thing to many others in the last few years. read more

Would NOT recommend James Fray. He now goes by Masonry Concepts. I hired his company to do a sidewalk job that needed to be done for the city. I have a large deposit sitting with the city that cannot be refunded until this job is complete. I hired this company and James seemed very competent to do the work. He went to the site to review the work and provided a proposal. I accepted the proposal and gave him a check for $1,250 as a deposit in November 2019. We met there again in January 2020 when he was scheduled to start the work. I gave him another check for $750 at that time. He then explained that the city was asking for something that seemed unreasonable so we scheduled a meeting with the city for clarification on what needs to be done. We met with the city in early March 2020 and James assured me that he understood what needed to be done. Then the quarantine hit. However, it is now December. All contractors have been back to work since May/June. Since July, James continues to make excuses as to why he cannot do the work...from weather to permitting, etc. He also is claiming that his visits to the site are part of his working hours. I would be willing to pay a small fee for the meeting with the city but the initial visit I would consider to be part of his bidding for the job. I highly doubt the rest of the visits he claims to have occurred even happened. He will not answer calls or return calls since February so I am forced to text him. Now I am out $2,000 to him and the $10,000 deposit to the city that he knew I was trying to get back with the completion of this job. He will be hearing from my attorney. He's a total scam artist. read more

If I could give negative stars I would. As much as it pains me to do this and give another small business a negative review, I'm beyond myself and have to let me friends and family know to stay away from this person and business. James K. Pray and his 'company': New England Masonry & Son are apparently scam artists and have essentially stolen $325.00 from me for work he was supposed to do back in April. When my boyfriend and I first bought our house I gave James a check for $325, the full job up front (I know I shouldn't have without having any work done but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and was trusting that it would be a quick job and get done in the next couple weeks) and he immediately cashed the check saying he was busy the next couple weeks but we could book for end of April- no problem. After trying to schedule for our 2 chimneys to be inspected and cleaned at least 7 times over the past 4.5 months (multiple cancellations d/t to weather, whether it was too hot, too rainy, he didn't have a worker to help, whatever) and him being completely unresponsive via text or FB claiming his phone was broken or bad service or he was away out of the state every other time, he finally got back to me and we agreed on a refund. Well, it's now been three weeks since then and supposedly the check was sent out 2 Wednesday's ago. Surprise, surprise the check never came. When confronted about the check not being here he stated it was sent out and he would talk to his receptionist and see when it was sent. Then earlier this week he told me the check was being sent again. I asked for his receptionists name and number and he gave me some random phone number and when I call it just rings and rings- no voicemail option. Finally, some guy picked up yesterday morning and when I asked about if it was the company he hung up and stopped responding or answering the rest of the day. When I told James he gave me a fake number he responded that "he couldn't control if his receptionists husband answered the phone and blah blah" and then told me he had just spoken with the receptionist and she had asked for the day off. How convenient! (this was yesterday) Well, after hearing that I reminded him that he said if it didn't come by Friday (today) he would meet me and give me the money- which is interesting because why would you offer that if you knew for a fact you actually had sent the check out? Well, he had some obligation in court during the morning and after messaging him via text every couple hours to get an update on when we could meet he finally stopped responding and I was left to go to small claims court on Monday on my day off and file against him and his company- wasting more time I don't have. I've given this kid and his company literally every possible chance to make things right before putting all this out there for the world to see, and since he refuses to run a legitimate business I am left no other options. I would and will NEVER run my business like this and it makes me physically ill that people can do this sort of thing- especially when there are hard working, honest self employed people out there busting there asses every day. Do yourself a favor and avoid this man and his company and go to someone reputable in the future- learn from my mistake. Karma will persevere hopefully. read more

James Pray is completely fraud. He promises you a lot and keeps taking money without doing any work. If you ask him why you are not completing work, even after taking money, he would say we are insulting him etc. and he threatens to complain to police. He is not a licensed contractor, which means courts or police cannot take any action on him. Please stay from him and save your hard earned money. Please don't fall prey for him. Do not hire him, even if he promises you lesser price than competitors. read more

Mr James Pray took $4000 as advance to order and repair our front staircase. We paid him two checks worth of $4000 ($1500 and $2500) to order material in the beginning of he process. He has never showed up after receiving second check of $2500. It is very difficult to reach him on phone and on texts he just make excuses for not able to come and finish job. In last three months we have no access to enter our house from the front door and condition oat the front door are very hazardous. This group of father and son (Mr James Pray senior and Junior) are the biggest cheaters I have seen in my like. Be careful, check their reviews and complaints on BBB. read more

They stole my $4500 deposit for a walkway and patio job and never showed to do the work! Now they won't answer their phones. Read all reviews for new england masonry and son, new england masonry and general contracting, and new england snow removal. They are all the same company. Learn from what happened to me and stay clear! Don't give James K Pray Jr or Sr a penny. Reading reviews they do this to everyone read more

This company ripped us off to the tune of $3,000. Contracted to complete patio and deck repairs in June. After listening to excuse after excuse as to why the work wasn't getting done, they built new steps. They were supposed to build new deck supports and repair a stone patio that was heaved up over the winter. None of that got done. We were fools and gave them 2 payments. They then abandoned the project and ignored phone calls and emails asking that our money be returned. Guess we will have to pursue legal action to ever see our money again. Consumer beware! This company has a very poor rating with Better Business Bureau. Unfortunately we didn't check that before hiring them. Learn from our mistake. read more