GRL Landscaping & Tree Services

GRL Landscaping & Tree Services is a Lynn crew that has built its reputation almost entirely on tree work — the kind of job where a storm has just dropped a limb on someone's power line or a huge oak needs to come down safely near a house. The company, run by an owner named Rafael, says on its own site it has over 10 years in the trade and offers 24/7 emergency tree service alongside landscaping and masonry/hardscape work. Speed under pressure is the recurring thread across more than a hundred reviews on Google. In a July 2025 review, one homeowner described a tree splitting and about to hit their house — the crew arrived within 60 minutes, on the Fourth of July. In a March 2026 review, a customer who had been without power for ten days after an underground fault called at noon and had trees surveyed, quoted, and removed by 10 a.m. the next day. That pattern repeats across dozens of accounts: large or dangerous removals — a 26-tree clearing in one visit, a giant pine next to a house, hazard trees over power lines — finished efficiently, with reviewers repeatedly calling the crew a "well oiled machine" and the pricing competitive. On the landscaping side, one 2026 review describes the crew clearing a yard that hadn't been maintained in ten years, handling tree work, shrubs, and general landscaping in a single job, and another mentions the crew seeding a lawn after tree removal. Not every review is positive. A handful stand out against the volume of praise: in May 2025, one customer said the company agreed to a time for an estimate and never showed up or responded; in October 2025, another said the crew left some of the specifically agreed-upon branches and trees untouched; and in a 2024 review, a customer described an unresolved scheduling dispute over moving cut logs. These are the exception against the volume of praise shown here, but worth confirming the exact scope in writing before the crew starts. For tree removal — routine or urgent — in the Lynn area, the volume and consistency of positive accounts, especially around speed and big or hazardous jobs, make a strong case. For a landscaping-only project, there's less to go on, so it's worth asking for examples closer to that scope.