All Star Landscaping & Masonry Service

All Star Landscaping & Masonry Service works out of Roslindale, and the reviews keep circling back to the same two jobs: retaining walls and patios. The company, whose crew reviewers repeatedly name-check by its lead, Orli, describes itself as a locally owned contractor covering Roslindale, Hyde Park, West Roxbury, Mattapan, and the wider Boston area, taking on both landscaping and hardscape work — lawn care, fencing, patios, retaining walls, walkways, fire pits — for residential and commercial properties. Reviews go back to 2021 across four different sources, and the pattern holds up over time: people call All Star for a hardscape project and the crew moves fast on it. In the last six months, one customer described a 600-square-foot backyard turned into what they called a 'hangout patio,' with a quote that came in lower than competing bids; two more recent reviews single out the crew's work ethic and attention to detail on similar patio jobs, one calling the result beyond what they'd expected going in. Not every recent account lines up with that. A reviewer this July — who didn't pick the contractor themselves; their landlord did — described repeated carelessness on the property, including damage to lawn items and holiday decorations that got tossed aside rather than handled with care. It's the newest entry in the file and worth raising directly if delicate items will be around the work area. Two other things worth confirming before booking: the company's own site claims 'over 18 years' of experience in its marketing copy, but its About page separately lists 2017 as the year it was established, and third-party review counts don't agree with each other either — Google shows 35 ratings, one aggregator counts 31, another lists just 10. For a patio, wall, or walkway job, the history points to a crew that quotes competitively and finishes on schedule. Given the one recent complaint about carelessness with property, it's worth asking who specifically will be on-site day to day, and worth pinning down the company's actual years in business rather than taking the marketing line at face value.