Is Bell Pest Control legit?

Licenses

Company pesticide licenses in each state where it has a location, with the status the issuing agency showed on the date retrieved.

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board: Company Registration⁶

  Status: Active · Number PR 9951 · Expires 12-31-2099 in DCA file (BBB lists 12/31/2035); the bulk-file expiry dates are placeholders, not renewal dates

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board: Field Representative⁶

  Status: Active · Number FR 61591 (Jay T Bell) · Expires June 30, 2027

• Cost it points

  Advertised license number doesn’t check out: Website footer advertises “License #: 11923”, a former Operator license number (the Dec 2023 footer reads “OPR#OPR11923”) that is not on the SPCB roll; the company’s own record is registration PR 9951^{1, 17}

  Counted in the score: −1

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profile shows a D- grade and 3 complaints in the last three years.

  Not BBB accredited.^{2, 5}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

Ratings and counts as each site showed them on the date retrieved.

• Google

  2,343 reviews across 1 western US listing, averaging 4.9 out of 5 (weighted by review count).⁹

• Yelp

  3.7 out of 5 from 220 reviews (Elk Grove, California).¹⁰

  Retrieved November 2, 2026

Review excerpts and the themes customers raise are on the company’s review page.

Legal and regulatory record

Only resolved government actions count toward the score. Pending lawsuits, private suits and allegations are listed as such; they are allegations, not findings.

• No lawsuits, settlements or enforcement actions are on file.

Four other records (complaint summaries and permits) are on its review page.

Does it sell door to door?

• Partial: door-to-door selling is documented, but only for part of how the company sells or only in the past.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #157 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 6.1 out of 10, Low confidence (provisional).

  Strongest: legal and regulatory record (10.0/10). Weakest: complaint record (6.5/10).

  How we scored itFull rankings

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