G.W. Dempsey Jr. Landscape & Property Maintenance Contractor

A dry well out front, a French drain around the back — that October 2006 job is the kind of thing homeowners kept calling G.W. Dempsey Jr. about. The Plymouth outfit works as a landscape and property-maintenance contractor across Southeastern Massachusetts: drainage, stone walkways, planting, powerwashing and regular upkeep. Reviewers name Gerry — one spells it Jerry — and his crew. The written history runs 2005 to 2015: 4.8 stars across nine Angi ratings dated 2005 through 2009, and one five-star Google review from May 2015 for a new walkway and patio, done fast and courteously. The older accounts are specific about the work. An October 2009 customer watched the crew pull out shrubs, trees and roots, including a couple of small stumps sitting in the middle of the lawn. An April 2008 homeowner had a wall and a walkway built. In April 2007 someone hired them around a new pool area and said they left the place spotless, and a January 2006 customer brought them in to powerwash and preserve the outside of a log cabin. An August 2005 reviewer liked knowing each day what would be done, and got a few extra plants thrown in. Two things to settle before you call. Those accounts are old — the newest written one dates to May 2015 — so crew size, pricing and lead times are worth hearing from the company today rather than from those pages. And the years-in-business figure depends where you look: Angi shows 39 years of experience, while the Houzz page claims over 19 years serving Southeastern Massachusetts. If it is standing water in the yard, a walkway to lay, or a property that needs steady upkeep around Plymouth, this is a fit. Ask to see a job finished this season, and get the drainage plan — where the water actually ends up — written into the estimate.