# Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care

**Trade:** Landscaping · **Address:** 164 Cranberry Hwy, Orleans, MA 02653 · **Phone:** (774) 216-0642 · **Languages:** English

**Rating: 3.4/5** (low confidence) — from 0 reviews across 2 sources. A 0–5 star rating built from what customers and the public say (every review and mention weighted by where it was posted, how old, how detailed and how credible it is, shrunk toward a 3.5★ baseline when evidence is thin) plus what the record shows (Reddit recommendations or warnings, a registry-verified licence, how recently they were reviewed, customer work photos, BBB grade, negative news, a revoked licence). Positive record counts only as far as the reviews have earned it; penalties count in full. Confidence describes how much weighted evidence stands behind the number, never the number itself: low when fewer than about five normal reviews' worth of weight (or mentions only) support it, medium up to about twenty, high beyond that across at least two sources. An operator flag for a suspicious review pattern caps a rating at 3.5★ and marks it low.

## The honest read

Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care is a landscaping and yard-care business at 164 Cranberry Highway in Orleans, working the Lower Cape. It is a family operation — a father and son who take on mowing and yard work and plow driveways through the winter.

The one piece of word of mouth on file is a neighbour vouching for them by name. In a January 2026 Nextdoor thread, after a South Chatham homeowner was left without a plow mid-season, an Orleans neighbour pointed a Brewster resident to the pair, writing that they "are very nice guys". It is a personal recommendation about reliability rather than a description of a finished job.

Beyond that, the record here is thin and worth saying plainly: no customer reviews, no star ratings and no first-hand accounts of a completed property. What else is on file are automatically generated business-directory entries, which describe nobody's experience.

Before booking, ask for references from Orleans-area properties they maintain now, get the scope in writing — mowing frequency, seasonal clean-ups, what plowing covers and when they come out — and confirm insurance.

**Strengths:**
- Neighbour vouched — an Orleans resident recommended them by name
- Winter plowing — named when a homeowner needed a plow mid-season
- Father and son — the same two people do the work

## Claims & citations

Every claim below is backed by real evidence rows — uncited claims are dropped in code before publication.

- Recommended by name in a January 2026 Nextdoor thread: an Orleans neighbour pointed a homeowner needing plowing to the father-and-son pair, saying they "are very nice guys". _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/QS9RdWMk-w6j) — “Nextdoor (Orleans, MA) — His name is Chris Belair with his son James and they are very nice guys.”
- Run as a father-and-son operation, according to the neighbour who recommended them. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/QS9RdWMk-w6j) — “Nextdoor (Orleans, MA) — His name is Chris Belair with his son James and they are very nice guys.”
- Takes on winter plowing alongside lawn and yard work — the January 2026 recommendation was made in answer to a request for a plow. _(confidence: medium)_
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/QS9RdWMk-w6j) — “Nextdoor (Orleans, MA) — His name is Chris Belair with his son James and they are very nice guys.”
- Listed as a landscaping and yard-care business in online business directories. _(confidence: low)_
  - [experience.com](https://www.experience.com/reviews/johnson-23358729) — “experience.com — directory listing for Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care (generated listing text, not a customer account)”
  - [reviews.birdeye.com](https://reviews.birdeye.com/grass-roots-landscaping-167534499203399) — “reviews.birdeye.com — directory listing for Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care (generated listing text, not a customer account)”
- The read rests on a single Nextdoor recommendation; no customer reviews or ratings are on file, and the remaining evidence is generated directory text. _(confidence: high)_
  - [experience.com](https://www.experience.com/reviews/johnson-23358729) — “experience.com — directory listing for Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care (generated listing text, not a customer account)”
  - [reviews.birdeye.com](https://reviews.birdeye.com/grass-roots-landscaping-167534499203399) — “reviews.birdeye.com — directory listing for Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care (generated listing text, not a customer account)”
  - [lower-cape-irrigation.hub.biz](https://lower-cape-irrigation.hub.biz/) — “lower-cape-irrigation.hub.biz — directory listing for Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care (generated listing text, not a customer account)”
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/QS9RdWMk-w6j) — “Nextdoor (Orleans, MA) — His name is Chris Belair with his son James and they are very nice guys.”
- Specializes in Landscaping _(confidence: medium)_
  - [experience.com](https://www.experience.com/reviews/johnson-23358729) — “experience.com — directory listing for Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care (generated listing text, not a customer account)”
  - [reviews.birdeye.com](https://reviews.birdeye.com/grass-roots-landscaping-167534499203399) — “reviews.birdeye.com — directory listing for Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care (generated listing text, not a customer account)”
  - [Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/p/QS9RdWMk-w6j) — “Nextdoor (Orleans, MA) — His name is Chris Belair with his son James and they are very nice guys.”

## License

Status: **not_found** — verified against the official MA state registry, never self-reported.
Re-check at the official registry: https://contractorhub.mass.gov/s/hic-contractor-search

## Sources

- [Google](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Lower%20Cape%20Lawn%20%26%20Yard%20Care&query_place_id=ChIJpQ-LSCtr-4kRLe-3VWm7Ids): Listed on this source
- [Exa](https://www.experience.com/reviews/johnson-23358729): 0 web mentions across the open web (each linked to its source)

## Mentions

Unverified third-party mentions found on the open web — relay with attribution ("a Reddit commenter said…"), never as Tavlee's own finding.

- “His name is Chris Belair with his son James and they are very nice guys.” — nextdoor.com (2026-01-27) — https://nextdoor.com/p/QS9RdWMk-w6j

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Data freshness: last scanned 2026-08-20T06:30:35.190Z.
Cite as: Lower Cape Lawn & Yard Care — Tavlee (https://tavlee.com/contractor/lower-cape-lawn-and-yard-care-orleans)
Source: https://tavlee.com/contractor/lower-cape-lawn-and-yard-care-orleans