Grace Landscape and Construction LLC

Grace Landscape and Construction LLC works out of 411 Main St in Oxford and is the kind of small outfit where the owner, Jim, is on the job himself — customer after customer writes about dealing with him directly rather than with a salesperson or a dispatcher. The work runs from routine yard care into real hardscape. Reviewers describe spring and fall clean-ups, mulch swapped for a rock bed, and a patio cleaned, resanded and sealed, but also a stone retaining wall and picket fence built to quote and on time in a 2023 review, a concrete patio poured in 2023 that its owner called smooth and level, a permanent drainage system and front walkway for a hillside lot in 2024, and a roughly 17-by-22-foot patio laid in 2024. One 2022 customer hired the company to finish a stone construction job another contractor had abandoned. Communication is the most consistent thread in the praise. A 2025 customer wrote that Jim was transparent on cost and quick with estimates and receipts; a 2023 customer said the price came in exactly as quoted; several describe him talking through design options rather than simply pricing what was asked for. The two dissatisfied customers on file both point at the front end of a job rather than the craftsmanship. In a 2024 review, a homeowner said a one-day garden bed turned into two weeks, that they were billed extra for labour on each return visit when labour was meant to be in the quote, and that they stopped the job at $2,300 with the bed unfinished. In a 2023 review another homeowner said Jim came out for an estimate and then never responded to follow-up calls. Worth pinning down in writing what the quote covers, what triggers an extra charge, and when you will hear back. One more thing to know when you read the numbers: nineteen of the reviews attached to this business come from a HomeAdvisor page filed to a Cranston, Rhode Island address under the earlier trading name Jobs by Jim, dated 2018 to 2021 and describing handyman work — railings, a fence gate, a roof repair, drywall — rather than the landscape and construction trade. They share this company's phone number, but they predate the Oxford business's own recorded start in August 2021 and should be read as a predecessor's record, not this one's. For patios, walkways, walls and yard clean-ups around Oxford and the Worcester area, the Massachusetts record here is genuinely strong and owner-run. Get the scope and the change-order terms on paper first.