DL Landscaping & Construction

DL Landscaping & Construction, run by Edgar out of Lynn, has built a long client list over nearly a decade of mowing, hardscape and masonry work — patios, retaining walls, paver walkways, fire pits, and fences alongside routine lawn care. Its Google page shows 4.5 stars from 51 ratings, and several reviewers describe relationships running 5, 8, even 18 years. The written history — 64 reviews from 2017 through mid-2026 across six sites — is dominated by praise for the hardscape work: a rebuilt retaining wall that had been failing to erosion, a circular patio with a wood-burning fire pit, a stone driveway and cobblestone edging, a narrow-lot excavation job one customer called impressively difficult. Recent activity is thinner — six reviews in the last six months, five of them positive — but the pattern holds: patios and walkways finished in days rather than weeks. A Massachusetts home improvement contractor license the company holds, #209480, is currently expired, per state registry verification. And a recurring complaint — showing up in reviews from 2017, 2021, and again as recently as April 2026 — describes a verbal price quote raised sharply after the work was finished: one reviewer says a $75 estimate for a half-hour shrub job became $275 in cash, another describes a fence-trim job priced at $1,900 met with "enough is enough" when a redo was requested. Separate reviews describe jobs left unfinished — a 2019 Angi review says only three-quarters of promised work got done, with debris left behind and calls avoided — and a late-2025 review describing a crew that blew a neighbor's leaves onto another customer's yard and denied it when confronted. For hardscape and masonry work, the long list of repeat customers speaks for itself — but get the price in writing before the crew shows up, and confirm the license status directly.