TLC THE LAWN COMPANY

TLC - The Lawn Company is a big operation for a "lawn care" business — the company says it serves more than 38,000 customers across eleven states, from New Hampshire to Virginia, with a five-visit seasonal program of fertilizer, weed control and insect treatments. It's explicit about what it is not: no mowing, raking, trimming or other landscaping, just the chemical side of keeping a lawn green. On Google, the company holds a 4.3-star rating across 144 ratings — a meaningfully larger and more positive signal than the handful of written accounts that turn up elsewhere. One of those, an undated complaint, describes an early treatment reviving drought-stressed grass but says a later visit kept getting pushed back and the weeds it was supposed to kill didn't die. In March 2025, a prospective customer in New Jersey posted on Reddit asking whether the company was any good, after getting a mailer quoting about $310 for the standard five-visit season — a useful data point on what the pitch costs, though nobody in the thread had actually used them yet. The company carries an A+ Better Business Bureau grade and is BBB accredited, and says its applications are handled by a state-certified, licensed commercial pesticide applicator. Worth knowing before signing up: in 2017, the Massachusetts Attorney General announced a consent judgment resolving a lawsuit against the company — then operating as Foreman Turf Specialties Inc. — and its owner, Jack R. Foreman Jr., over unfair and deceptive debt collection practices. It's an old, resolved case, not something happening now, but it's the kind of thing worth knowing about a company you're handing recurring payments to. TLC reads like a reasonable, well-established choice for straightforward seasonal lawn treatments at scale — its size and BBB standing suggest a business that shows up and does the applications — but the debt-collection history is a fair reason to read the billing terms closely and to keep an eye on the schedule if a visit seems to be slipping.