Jim's Affordable Landscaping

Jim's Affordable Landscaping (also doing business as Jim's Affordable Home Services) says it has served the North Shore since 2005, and its Google page — 5 stars from 96 ratings — backs that up with one of the longer landscaping review histories in the area, running back to 2013. Based in Beverly, the crew covers full-service landscaping, spring and fall cleanups, hardscaping, excavator and bobcat work, handyman jobs, and fencing across the North Shore. What repeats across years of reviews is how many customers keep coming back. A 2021 review described starting with Jim for a single cleanup in 2013 and using him for lawn care ever since; another customer described eight straight years of seasonal cleanups, mulching, leaf removal, and mowing; several more describe standing weekly lawn-care arrangements running years deep. The work itself covers real range beyond routine upkeep — grading and re-grading yards before laying new sod, clearing overgrown brush and grinding out the stumps, and hardscaping projects like patios and retaining walls, including one customer's account of Jim's crew extending an existing stone grotto into a full patio. A consistent theme across the reviews is speed: multiple customers describe Jim coming out to quote a job within a day of calling, including one who says he showed up the next day after a request. Pricing comes up just as often, and just as consistently, as fair — several reviewers specifically noted that a quoted price held once work started, and one called the estimates among the lowest they'd received. This fits a homeowner or property manager on the North Shore who wants one crew for both the routine seasonal work — mowing, cleanups, mulching — and a bigger one-off project like a patio or a yard regrade. Given how much of this comes from a genuinely long-running client base, it's worth confirming current scheduling and getting the site visit and quote in writing, the way many of these customers describe doing.