Ballo's Multi Service

Ballo's Multi Service is a Hyde Park outfit built around one job: rescuing a yard that's gotten away from someone. The company says it's been doing this for about a decade, run by founder John Ballo alongside landscaping architect Sophia Greene, and the reviews back up what that looks like in practice — crews that show up fast and take on the kind of overgrown mess most people would rather not deal with themselves. Speed keeps coming up. In mid-June, one customer had a fallen tree removed within two hours of calling, for only a modest rush charge. A few days earlier, another reviewer described edging and mulching a yard that had been neglected for years, calling out how much attention the crew paid to detail. Cleanups dominate the recent reviews — clearing years of leaves and construction debris, shaping shrubs, pulling weeds that were choking out trees — and the same two names, Rich and Richard, turn up across nearly all of them, suggesting a small, consistent crew rather than rotating subcontractors. That pattern isn't new: across 40 reviews stretching back to 2024, the story has stayed the same. One thing worth asking about before booking repeat work: a returning customer said this year's estimated hours for a similar job looked materially higher than expected, got a second quote, and went with a different contractor who finished in about half the time for roughly $500 less. They still called the past work good and the hourly rate itself reasonable — the concern was specifically how the hours were estimated on a repeat job, not the workmanship. Snow removal shows up as a winter add-on for some of the same customers, and the company's own site also lists junk removal, power washing, and handyman work, though those get far less mention in reviews than the core lawn and cleanup jobs. A few directories list different review counts — 43 on Google directly, 36 or 28 on land-clearing and lawn-care aggregator pages — which look like different snapshots of the same underlying Google listing. Ballo's is a solid call for a yard cleanup, ongoing mowing, or a fall/spring reset, especially if a fast quote and fast start matter. For anything billed hourly and recurring, it's worth pinning down a firm hours estimate rather than assuming last year's number will hold.