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Douglas Earp has been running this Middleton landscaping business since 1980 — a sole proprietorship with three employees, as its Better Business Bureau profile lays it out, under the fuller name D.R. Earp Landscaping. The work splits between green and hard. Planting and shrub maintenance on one side; patios, walkways, sidewalks, pavers, stone and brick, and retaining walls under four feet on the other, for homes and commercial properties alike. The BBB grades the company A+. A March 2022 review takes aim at conduct rather than craft: the writer said two employees spent about ten minutes yelling at the staff of a McDonald's in Amesbury over a wait of roughly 30 seconds, and gave one star. Nothing in it speaks to how a patio comes out, but it is fair grounds to ask who will be on your property and who supervises them. For a straightforward North Shore yard — a paver walkway, a low retaining wall, a patio, seasonal shrub work — Earp is a long-established local option. Get the scope and the price in writing before the first delivery, and ask whether Douglas Earp himself is on the job or running it from the truck.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Earp Landscaping. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
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$50 – $70
Typical landscaping service around $60
Just saw two employees at a McDonald's in Amesbury yell at the staff for like 10 minutes because they had to wait almost 30 seconds to be helped yelling into the kitchen. Real good look. Yelling at teenagers because you have poor time management skills really made you guys seem like great people. You can't get scrambled eggs at noon and sometimes coffee has to brew. Watching this made me want to call my parents and thank them for teaching me basic manners. -Just a customer trying to eat a BigMac.
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