Fairway Lawn & Tree Service-Cape Cod

Fairway Lawn & Tree Service is a Harwich-based lawn, tree and shrub, and mosquito/tick control company that Tom Fair started as its president after 30 years working for a larger regional lawn-care company that was later sold to a national chain. The company says its technicians are all certified MA pesticide applicators, and Fair is a past president of the Cape Cod Landscape Association. For years, that experience showed in the reviews. Between 2022 and 2024, customers -- including one who said they'd spent 25 years as a landscaping-industry executive -- repeatedly praised how the lawn turned out, naming technicians Tony and Matt by name for doing an outstanding job. But the two most recent reviews tell a different story. In July 2026, a customer of about 1.5 years -- a landscape architect for nearly 50 years -- said the lawn went from looking like a golf course to a fungal-infested mess whose problems were never addressed, and described the company as no longer the locally owned operation it used to be. A March 2026 review echoed the same shift: great years ago, but this past season the company still charged for visits it didn't show up for. Against that, a late-February 2026 review credited Chris Ingwersen with helpfully rescheduling a treatment around a sprinkler repair. Worth asking about directly: what's changed operationally in the past year, since two separate 2026 reviewers independently describe the same drop-off from what had been solid, years-long service. The website's self-described ownership by Tom Fair doesn't line up cleanly with one reviewer's sense that the company isn't locally owned anymore -- worth clarifying who's actually running the crew that shows up at your door. Fairway also markets mosquito and tick control and tree/shrub work alongside its core lawn program, though the reviews on file focus almost entirely on the lawn-care side.