Northeast Landscape Contractors

Thirty-eight years in the Merrimack Valley, 25 employees, and a BBB file that has been accredited since 2006 — Northeast Landscape Contractors is the kind of outfit that shows up on the same properties season after season. It runs out of 314 Clark Street in North Andover as a corporation, with Mark Delgreco as president and Bruno Delgreco as treasurer, and the BBB dates the business to 1988. The company says it covers Andover, North Andover, Boxford, Bradford, Haverhill, Lawrence and Methuen, handling residential lawn care, landscaping and design, hardscapes and irrigation, plus commercial property maintenance and snow and ice management through the winter. It is also listed with the North Andover Chamber of Commerce. The praise tends to be about consistency rather than any one showpiece job: crews that come back year after year, estimators who take time on site, work that gets done to plan. That pattern runs across 16 reviews and five sources, alongside a 4.2 average from 29 Google ratings. What pulls the number down is not workmanship. The complaints on file concern how the company operates at the edges — a neighbor describing crews mowing beyond the property they were hired for, a long-time customer who missed a prepay discount deadline by a day and found no flexibility, and a departing homeowner told the crew schedule belonged to full-contract clients first. Those are policy and boundary issues, and they are the ones worth raising before you sign. Good fit for a homeowner who wants a season-long maintenance contract from a large, established crew rather than a one-off job. Before booking, pin down exactly which property lines and beds are in scope, get the discount and prepay deadlines in writing, and ask what happens to your schedule if you need something outside the contract mid-season.