Pro MJL Landscaping and Construction

Pro MJL Landscaping and Construction is a Swampscott, MA outfit built around one name that shows up in almost every review: Armando. Customers across 98 reviews since 2022, spread over Google, Angi, and a handful of directories, keep landing on the same 5.0, and the pattern isn't thin: 93 Google ratings and 82 on Angi both average a perfect score, with 19 reviews in just the last six months and not one of them negative. The company says it covers the North Shore from Reading down to Lynnfield, doing landscaping, tree work, hardscaping, snow removal, and fence installation, and that it's run by founder Armando Chavez. What people actually hire them for, recently, is a real mix. One reviewer had Armando out to quote the same day, then had his crew rebuild a front walkway on a tight, communicative timeline. Another had an overgrown, weedy front yard dug out and reframed with cobblestone edging in a single day. A third describes the crew working through a 100-plus-degree heatwave to finish a spring cleanup, mowing, trimming trees and bushes, clearing flower beds, meticulous enough to pull weeds from between bricks. There's a retaining wall and crushed-stone pool surround, a Japanese maple pruned, and a job beautifying the Ipswich post office, so the crew has picked up at least some commercial work alongside the usual residential accounts. The thread running through all of it is responsiveness: several reviewers specifically mention Armando answering calls and texts immediately and following through on exactly what he quoted, including one customer whose previous landscaper had no-showed and who got a same-day fix from MJL instead. Worth asking about before booking: reviews and the Angi profile also describe this crew doing work well outside landscaping, full demolition, drywall, painting, hardwood flooring and tile in one home, and shingle-and-chimney work in another, with no license or insurance claim verified anywhere. If the job is a room renovation or roofing rather than yard work, it's worth confirming licensing and insurance for that scope directly, since nothing on record speaks to it. For straightforward landscaping work, cleanups, mulching, tree removal, patios, walkways, fences, this is a crew with a deep, consistent, near-unanimous track record and an owner customers describe as personally reachable. For anything adjacent to that, structural work, roofing, interior remodeling, confirm licensing and scope before signing on.