Nehemias Landscaping & Construction

Every one of Nehemias Landscaping & Construction's 17 Google reviews is five stars, and most of them mention the same first name: Marvin. Based in Lynn and covering North Shore towns — Danvers, Beverly, Melrose, Peabody, and Revere among them, by its own account — the company calls itself family-owned and says it's been doing landscape and hardscape work since 2014. (Its own about page also claims 'over 8 years' and, elsewhere, 'over 20 years' of experience, so the exact starting point is worth taking loosely rather than at face value.) The jobs reviewers describe are almost entirely hardscaping and masonry, not lawn care: patios, retaining walls, brick stairs, stone walls, a chimney rebuild. In the past few months, one homeowner had Marvin's crew rebuild a back patio and front walkway in fieldstone and brick, working carefully around a large mossy boulder they wanted kept in place; another had him patch a garage and stone wall, liked it enough to bring him back for two more walls and a walkway replacement, and said he held to budget throughout. A third recent review describes hand-shoveled snow removal for an elderly relative in Danvers, called punctual and thorough. Further back, the same pattern holds — a chimney rebuild finished on the original quote with no add-ons, a patio project where the crew flagged an unexpected boulder and talked through the fix instead of just billing for it, a stone wall and a neighbor's retaining wall refinished together with fresh topsoil and sod. Across nearly three years and five different sources, nothing in the record describes a missed schedule, a billing dispute, or redo work. There isn't much to flag going in. The Better Business Bureau gives the company an A- rating, though it isn't accredited and the BBB file itself is recent, opened in March 2025. The more practical thing to ask about directly is that tenure question — how long Marvin's actually been doing this — since the company's own site can't seem to agree with itself. For patio, retaining-wall, stone, or masonry work — or a driveway that needs pavers — this is a small crew with a clean, consistent local track record and repeat customers to show for it. For straightforward lawn maintenance or planting design, these reviews don't really speak to that, so confirm scope and timeline for a larger hardscape project before signing on.