Dube Property Maintenance & Hardscaping

Thirty-one years in, Dube Property Maintenance is the kind of outfit whose oldest customers stayed for decades and whose newest reviews are one-star. Kevin Dube's Methuen company — six employees on its BBB file, started in 1995 and incorporated in 2001 — works the full yard year: mowing and seasonal cleanups, landscape installs and irrigation, paver patios and retaining walls, plus commercial snow and ice management across the Merrimack Valley and into southern New Hampshire. The long history reads well. Older reviews come from people who kept hiring them — homeowners and commercial accounts describing multi-year maintenance and snow contracts, hardscape builds and full lawn overhauls, usually naming Kevin and his crews directly. Google's average is 3.8 across 19 ratings, and it's the newest reviews pulling it down: both reviews in the last six months are one-star. One, from July 2026, says the crew left a mess and dumped material on the reviewer's property and hadn't come back to collect it. The other, from May 2026, is a general contractor's account of hiring David Dube for a five-day job — nothing half-done at ten days, a hit pipe, an $850 advance and more than $1,000 of tools he says were taken, and the site left unfinished. That is a serious allegation, and worth reading alongside the fact that BBB names Kevin Dube as the owner, so whether that account concerns the company's principal isn't clear from the listing itself. Complaints about communication turn up more than once too. For a scheduled maintenance or snow contract — the work its long-term clients describe — Dube has the crews and the history for it. For a one-off hardscape build, press on specifics: who will actually run the crew, what the schedule commits to, where spoil and debris go, and keep the deposit tied to a written scope. Its A+ BBB grade and Methuen Chamber membership are on file; neither substitutes for calling two recent hardscape customers before you sign.