Terminex International

All I know is when the Terminex man drives up to my neighbor’s front yard, my family moves into immediate action, and it’s a red alert emergency. We have to run inside, close all the windows and lock all the doors. We move to a safe room, while the high pitch insect chatter begins. I move to view out the kitchen window because, like watching a cheap homemade missile, coming from an angry psychotic civilization to terrorize and torment the innocent, and to chase me off my land in an effort at world domination, I need to know where it’s going to land. And then the race begins. The neighbor’s roaches start running for their lives, like dolphins jumping over crests of white ocean waves, as they leap over tall blades of grass like marathon swimmers, each attempting to reach the finish line first. Unfortunately that finish line is the foundation of my rental home. You know when they disappear, one will make it through a crack in my walls and jump through a heating vent. Like the riot police, I grab my sneaker and wait until dark. The roaches always feel safer to emerge after everyone has gone to sleep. I’m no fool, I pretend to go upstairs for slumber, dressed for the part. I even yawn for special effects and announce my departure. I am actually lurking upstairs behind a wall in the shadows to protect my family, and the right to live in a bug free clean home. Oh yes, the Terminex roaches have no clue what they are in for.
With my shoulders squared, shoe gripped tightly in my hand, I head downstairs. Faster than lightening I find my target and teach him a lesson. I have no mercy. I open my front door and kick him outside for further observation by his cousins. They hide in shock outside and leave me alone till the Terminex man shows up again. It’s obvious roaches have a short memory. But an improvement in their memory would require a larger cortex, with the ability to speak, carry their own sneaker, stand on their back legs, and fight me back. Without wanting war with an alien race, I am grateful for their simple programming. Yes the terminex man chases them off, and does his job, but just till he’s due for another visit.

Wow! 1. They were disorganized and had no communication that another person was coming to our house. 2. The other guy was super late. 3. When he did arrive, he did not have the proper chemicals to get rid of our pest problem. And totally fucked us in that we had plans for our pets to be out that day for the exterminator.
They were supposed to be there at 11am. Ha!
2:30 and the dude stopped by to say hi and that he was unprepared. So useless. And super mad right now.

Terminex had been fine doing my terminate inspection (I hope). I called about flies. First appt was cancelled, 2^nd said he could not do anything for the flies. Had Planet Orange come out and do a non-​toxic spray and the flies are gone. Called Terminex TWICE and left a message for a manager to call so I could express my frustration. Never got a call back. Will not renew with them.

TermInex is the worst pest company on the planet. You have been warned!

While we have used the services of Terminex to fight mice and ants, we have finally given up on using their services because they are consistently unreliable. Despite booking appointments for home service long in advance, the technicians show up late, early and on wrong days. The last straw was getting a service charge for a home inspection they claim to have provided while we were out of town for the weekend. The actual appointment wasn’t until the following week. Do you really want these technicians using toxic chemicals around your home when they can’t even read a calendar?

Okay… so a year went by and I got my notice to re-​inspection. This is very easy to do, just schedule it online and they call to see what time we want on the day of service. We said 8−10am and he came 9:30am!!! OMG, so much better than those comcast guys!
Okay so, because of all the rain he couldn’t check the subtaranean termite. But he says we can reschedule.
Overall, he’s pretty good about checking around the house and very polite!
If this is the care we’ll receive annually, I’m sure I’ll be a lifetime customer.