Ochoa Landscaping

Ochoa Landscaping is a one-person outfit working out of East Boston, and its written record splits sharply between two customers who saw very different sides of it. In a 2020 review, a customer who used the crew for three landscaping seasons — routine yard work and cleanup, then new fencing and a full backyard renovation — described the team as punctual, responsive to questions, and reasonably priced, working hard on-site with no one standing around, and said they'd keep hiring the company. A year earlier, in 2019, a different customer called the business "extremely unreliable and rude," writing that reaching the owner meant chasing him down at his East Boston home. Beyond the yard work in the reviews, BuildZoom's permit records — filed under a masonry license tied to the same address and owner — show a handful of concrete and carpentry jobs: a curb-cut and sidewalk in Somerville (2020), a front-step replacement in Quincy (2019, $4,000), step demolition and a rotted porch-beam repair in Milton (2020), and front steps in Milton (2017). BuildZoom's own listing is inconsistent about that same license number — described as a mason license expiring in August 2023 in one place and a Home Improvement Contractor registration marked inactive (and "at one point cancelled") in another — and BuildZoom itself couldn't confirm an active license. None of this is a state-verified reading, so treat the license status as unconfirmed rather than settled. BBB has a file open since August 2020 listing it as a one-employee landscape contractor, but rates it "Not Rated" for lack of information, with no complaints or actions on record. What to know before calling: the customer history is thin — two written reviews, both several years old, pulling in opposite directions — so ask about current crew reliability and communication, and confirm the status of any home-improvement or mason registration directly with the state rather than relying on directory listings.