JR's Landscaping is a Stoughton, Massachusetts full-service landscaping company — mowing and seasonal clean-ups, planting and design, hardscape and masonry, drainage, irrigation, fertilization, and winter plowing and salting. Its own site says it is celebrating 28-plus years in business, and reviewers name Matthew Hrenko as the owner. Google publishes 4.8 stars from 85 ratings.
The routine work draws steady, specific praise, and it is remarkably consistent: crew members are named again and again — Michael, Santo, Hector, Beto, Tom, Matt — for spring and fall clean-ups, mulch and edging, leaf removal and driveway plowing. A 2026 customer got an online quote back the same day and a follow-up call from the office manager within the hour. Another had two long drainage borders built that solved a runoff problem and "look like beds". Winter service comes up often: driveways cleared to the asphalt, garage approaches shovelled, one crew returning after an icy storm to salt.
The complaints are the part to read carefully, because they are not about the quality of the work — they are about money, and they recur across four years. In July 2026 a customer said they were writing to corroborate others: work on a brick walkway hit a genuine problem they were willing to pay for, but when they asked for a new estimate none was given, and the job ran days longer. In November 2025 another called the contract "sneaky, misleading, and not clear at all" and said they were charged an extra $160 with no extra work done. In September 2024 a third described "misleading and tricky estimates" where a service they believed was covered turned out not to be. In January 2024 a fourth said that after cancelling mid-October the company kept cutting the grass three times a month rather than the twice they had asked for.
Four reviewers over four years, all describing the same thing: what was agreed and what was billed came apart. Against 85 ratings averaging 4.8 that is a minority, and the crews clearly do good work — but the pattern is specific and consistent enough to plan around.
If you hire them, get the scope and the price in writing before anything starts, insist on a written change order the moment anyone says they have hit a problem, and confirm in writing how a cancellation takes effect.