Orkin Pest Control

Orkin tech Frank quickly showed us that not all extermination companies are the same.
We had another company making service calls every 2 months to spray the outside (or inside) of our house and to monitor rodent bait stations to keep critters away.
We don’t have a fruit tree or veggie plant on our property. We have low lying plants (bromeliads) and only a few planters with trees. We don’t keep trash cans outside of the house. We didn’t want to be hospitable to any wildlife (armadillos, raccoons, opossums, iguanas, rodents, etc.) but through the years we’ve seen some. We hear gators loudly growling during mating season EVERY year!
We used the other company for a few years but they kept changing techs and I didn’t have a love connection with the last guy. I wanted to change companies. And I’m glad we did because we learned that we weren’t getting quality service.
Our tech Frank is great. The first time he came to our house he assessed everything, he removed spider webs, etc. from the houses perimeter, noticed ant hills on the property perimeter and told us that the bait stations lacked ample entry/​exit holes and weren’t placed correctly. He replaced the stations with ones that are smartly designed and put them in more appropriate spaces.
What the hey? Why didn’t the other company do any of those things? I’m glad my gut said we needed to change companies!
Today my worst nightmare happened… I called Frank to remove an unwelcome visitor’s carcass. He raced over to my house and while I was working in my home office he extracted it. I guess Frank was right about the type and placement of the stations because it didn’t take long to work. I’m a bit freaked that it happened but enough exterminators have told me that rodents are everywhere. Yeech. (That’s why people walk outside of a restaurant and see the stations in the foliage — they just ate at the restaurant because it’s clean and the food is good, but critters abound.)
I am glad that Orkin is on top of their game and their knowledge of how to protect their customers. It’s not just Frank — I’ve spoken to his manager Jose, and he too was professional and caring. I know that they are just a phone call away. They are a quality company. As Frank put it, «THIS is Orkin»!