Helton Landscaping

Helton Landscaping is a three-person outfit working out of 2 Winslow Rd in Danvers, and one name is attached to it everywhere: Bill Helton. BBB lists him as the manager and puts the business start at January 2011; the Town of Danvers files the same address under William S. Helton on its personal property roll. What people have written about the company comes mostly from properties it maintains on contract rather than one-off yard jobs. In a September 2024 review, the proprietor of Sunrise Senior Living in Lynnfield said the crew had worked with them for over a decade and that Bill had never once been late, and singled out how he handled winter safety for the residents. The rest of what customers have written is complaints, and they land on how the crew operates rather than on the planting. A reviewer in October 2025 said the crew scratched their car while landscaping; another in September 2025 complained the drivers don't signal; a May 2024 comment described a Beverly contract crew starting at 6am with loud blowers. Three of the four written comments on file are one-star, and the two most recent are among them. Its BBB page carries an A+ grade, though that profile is explicitly not BBB Accredited — two separate facts, and the grade sits against a very short written history. Landscaping-only work is exempt from Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, so there is nothing to confirm there. Worth raising before you sign: crew start times and noise if you are on a route with other properties, and how they handle parked cars and access on tight sites. The strongest thing anyone has said about this company is a long commercial grounds-and-winter account in Lynnfield, so a condo association or facility looking for season-long maintenance has the most to go on; a single household has very little written either way, and should ask for local references directly.