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CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).
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As You Can See Below, Some Pest Control Firms Get High Praise from Their Customers.
Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments
CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Pest Control Firms.
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Subscriber from SAN JOSE, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
Very professional and easy to work with........
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Subscriber from CONCORD, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
We live in a town home and found we had termites. Other pest control companies..........
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Subscriber from OAKLAND, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
This was the third company we had give us a quite on work to deter..........
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Subscriber from SAN JOSE, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
Their technician Ray Tatarka is incredibly professional, very friendly, and quite thorough and fast in..........
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Subscriber from WALNUT CREEK, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
I have Osborn spray my yard yearly to keep the ant population in control. The..........
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Subscriber from SANTA CRUZ, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
Handles larger pests - gophers, racoons, opossums, skunks, etc. Really good with gophers. Live traps..........
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Subscriber from MENLO PARK, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
Trapped rats instead of using poison bait. Gave a 1 year guarantee. Very professional........
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Subscriber from OAKLAND, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
The service was for a pest inspection, not pest control........
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Subscriber from PLEASANT HILL, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
These guys came over to my house when I had wasps in the wall of..........
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Subscriber from DUBLIN, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
Have used their monthly service for 8 years, and they have done a very good..........
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Subscriber from LAFAYETTE, CA wrote about a local pest control service:
I only use Charles Mayer personally (not any of his other inspectors). He has years..........
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