Kay Landscaping Corporation

Kay Landscaping Corporation works out of 171 Broadway in Methuen and is listed for two things: landscaping and retaining walls. That pairing matters, because it puts them in both soft-landscape work and hardscape stonework rather than mowing and planting alone. There is no customer feedback on file anywhere. The one directory carrying them states plainly that it has received no reviews, and no review platform returned a profile for them at all, so there is nothing here about scheduling, pricing or finish quality — good or bad. The licensing picture is the substantive finding, and the directory contradicts itself about it. In prose it describes a Landscape Contractor licence, number 191416, with an expiration date of 16 April 2020, last confirmed expired on 12 December 2024. Its own licence block gives the same number 191416 a different type entirely — Home Improvement Contractor — with a status of Inactive, and adds that the state consumer affairs office recorded the registration as cancelled at one point. One number cannot be two licence types, so at least one of those descriptions is wrong. What is consistent across both readings is that the registration is not currently active. Massachusetts exempts landscaping-only work from home improvement contractor registration, so a lapsed HIC registration is not automatically a fault for a landscaper — but retaining walls are structural hardscape, and that is the kind of work where registration and the state guaranty fund it backs actually protect a homeowner. So the practical advice is narrow. Ask them directly whether the work you want is landscaping or hardscape, ask for the current status of registration 191416 and check it yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and ask for certificates of general liability and workers' compensation insurance. With no reviews anywhere, references from recent customers are worth more here than usual.