Mike's Landscaping & General Contracting Co., Inc.

Mike's Landscaping & General Contracting works out of Malden with a simple pitch on its own site: landscape design, hardscapes, and property maintenance. The company says Mike started it in 1981, mowing lawns for family before neighbors started asking him to do theirs, and it's stayed family-run ever since, covering Malden, Melrose, Everett, Medford, Stoneham, Wakefield, Winchester, Saugus, Lynnfield, and Revere. The praise across Google (4.3 stars, 45 ratings) and Houzz (3.7 from 6) clusters around the design and hardscape jobs — patios, plantings, retaining walls, the kind of work people mention by name. A five-star review from January 2026 called out the office staff and crew directly after a storm snow-removal job, which is the more recent bright spot. It's not all smooth going. Two Google reviews from this spring describe callers hoping to get a quote being met by a rude, dismissive office rep — before any work was even scheduled. Further back, a Houzz account describes a much heavier problem: an $1,850 deposit paid with no work done and a refund refused. That's an isolated account rather than a pattern here, but it's worth asking about deposit terms and a firm start date up front. BBB lists the company at an A+ despite it not being an accredited business, with no complaints on file there. Between the hardscape work people keep coming back to and the rough patches in the office lately, this reads like a crew worth calling for a design or hardscape project — just get everything about deposits and scheduling in writing before you pay anything.