Larosa Landscaping

LaRosa Landscaping is a Norwood, Massachusetts outfit that says it has mowed lawns, cleared snow, and handled stonework and paving since 1981, when Joseph LaRosa started the company after years of pushing a mower around the neighborhood as a teenager. The company describes itself as owner-operated by LaRosa today, with certified arborists on staff for tree and shrub work alongside its landscaping, stone masonry, asphalt paving, and snow removal. The written record here is thin and not encouraging. Google shows a 3.4-star average from eight ratings, and its two most recent reviews are both one-star: an August 2026 reviewer described a company driver as rude and reckless, saying he cuts people off and breaks traffic laws, and in a 2021 review, a customer warned that the person answering the phone would drive business away. The driving complaint is not an isolated impression — the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fined the company $5,570 in 2018 for a motor vehicle safety violation, a separate federal record that lines up with the same kind of concern. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, filed under LaRosa Landscaping Corp, has expired. A Better Business Bureau page carrying the LaRosa Landscaping name and an A+ rating actually describes a different, affiliated company — LaRosa Development Corp, a real estate and renovation firm at the same Norwood address — rather than the landscaping business itself, so that grade should not be read as landscaping's own record. Houzz lists one completed project and a badge, but no reviews yet. Anyone considering LaRosa Landscaping should ask directly about who will be driving on and around the property, and confirm the status of its contractor registration before booking anything beyond routine yard work.