Valente Landscape and Design

Valente Landscape and Design is a small lawn-and-yard outfit listed at 24 Winthrop St in Marlborough, Massachusetts, run day to day by an owner customers simply call Ray. Both of its directory profiles put the same short list of work front and centre: seasonal clean-ups, lawn care and mowing, tree trimming, yard-waste removal and winter snow removal. The written track record is small, consistent, and dated 2021 to 2023 — four reviews, all five stars. Ray himself is what the customers write about. One homeowner writing in September 2021 called him a really nice person, reliable, and reasonable on cost; another that August said her lawn looked amazing and that he was easy to work with; a November 2023 customer who hired him for leaf pickup on a friend's recommendation called the job fantastic and the rates reasonable. Two things are worth knowing before you call. First, those four reviews are one record, not two: the HomeAdvisor profile reproduces the Angi profile word for word, so the matching 5.0-from-4-ratings figures are the same feedback printed twice rather than independent corroboration. Second, the whole written record runs from August 2021 to November 2023, so the praise describes work from those years rather than current practice. The 'Approved' badges both platforms display are directory membership marks, not an outside check of the company's workmanship. For routine seasonal work — mowing, spring and fall clean-ups, leaf and yard-waste hauling, light tree trimming — the handful of people who hired Ray were plainly happy, and each profile shows a dozen posted projects. Given how few accounts there are and how far back they run, ask for recent local references and confirm current insurance and any required registration directly with the company before booking.