Roberto Affordable Land & Tree Service

The word that shows up in almost every review is fast. Quote in the morning, crew in the yard the next day — sometimes the same afternoon. Roberto Affordable Land & Tree Service works out of Watertown and does landscaping, lawn care, tree removal and trimming, mulch and sod, gutter cleaning, masonry and winter snow removal. The company describes itself as family-owned, and customers on every platform name the owner — Jose Roberto — as the person who shows up to quote and often stays to supervise. It advertises 'Se habla español'. The specifics are consistent. In June 2026 a homeowner wrote that a nine-man crew cleared a long-neglected dumping area of autumn olive, bittersweet and deep-rooted vines, ground down stumps, hauled everything away and finished in two hours ten minutes. In May 2026 an overgrown row of boxwoods was quoted at 8am and trimmed by a crew that arrived at 9. A March 2025 client listed a Friday call turning into a Tuesday finish covering yard cleanup, mulch, rubble removal, stump extraction, trimming on five trees and fifteen arborvitae planted along a fence. Sod, hardscape edging, poison-ivy clearing and rooftop snow removal all recur. What to ask about is price. Two accounts from February 2026 on Angi are one-star: one says $850 was charged for a single small-yard mowing, the other that a snow job was left half-cleared with a poor attitude. In April 2026 a Google reviewer rated the firm two stars, describing a woodchip-and-barrier job rushed through — the crew tried to talk them out of staking the barrier down — and a roughly $2,000 quote for a routine spring cleanup they had paid $300 for elsewhere. Angi's own average across 682 reviews is 4.3 with 7% one-star, a cooler and much deeper number than Google's 4.9 from 29. There is also a tenure muddle worth ignoring rather than trusting: the company's main site says 'over 20 years', its second site says 'Since 1990', its Thumbtack profile says 15 years and its Angi profile says 19 in one place and 12 in another. For a Watertown-area cleanup, hedge or tree job you want done this week, this is a strong call — the responsiveness is real and repeatedly documented. Get the price in writing before the crew starts, and confirm exactly what the quote covers.