Is Bucksworth Home Services legit?

Licenses

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

• Arizona

  Arizona Department of Agriculture, Pest Management Division (Office of Pest Management): Business license^{2, 28}

  Status: Active; issued 01/19/2017 · Number 9613 · Expires 05/31/2028 (business search); QP categories 05/31/2027

• Cost it points

  Advertised license number doesn’t check out: Website header, footer, About page and city pages advertise “AZ ROC #343924” (“Arizona ROC #343924 and AG License #9613 are active and in good standing”); the Arizona Registrar of Contractors has no license 343924 (search: no match, October 28, 2026), and the company’s own ROC licenses, 343718 and 343925, are both Suspended (lack of qualifying party)^{3, 31, 32}

  Counted in the score: −1

• Cost it points

  Minor administrative penalty: Arizona Dept. of Agriculture OPM citation and order, case 101207 (BL 9613): 1,627 Termite Action Report Forms not filed within 30 days and a Corrective Work Order not complied with; $300 civil penalty (Violation 2) plus 6-month probation (03/01/2026 to 08/31/2026) with weekly reporting and TARF audits (Violation 1)^{34, 35}

  Counted in the score: −0.5

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profile shows a NR grade and 4 complaints in the last three years.

  Not BBB accredited.^{4, 10, 25, 26}

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What customers say

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

• Google

  2,397 reviews across 2 western US listings, averaging 4.9 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{16, 18}

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.

• Arizona Department of Agriculture, Office of Pest Management citation and order, case 101207, against Bucksworth Services, LLC (business license 9613). OPM inspections from January 2025 found the company had not filed Termite Action Report Forms (TARFs) for new-construction termite treatments; records later obtained from its software provider listed 1,627 pretreatments, new-construction and final-grade treatments (March 2024 to January 2025) with none filed. The owner said he had hired an employee for the filings and had software problems. A Corrective Work Order (10/06/2025, due 11/03/2025) was not complied with: by 01/06/2026 only 162 had been submitted. Violations: (1) failing to submit 1,627 TARFs within 30 days (A.R.S. 3-3631(A), A.A.C. R3-9-501(D)(3)(c)); (2) failing to comply with a Corrective Work Order (A.R.S. 3-3624(B)(1)). Order: file all overdue TARFs within 30 days; 6-month probation (03/01/2026 to 08/31/2026) with weekly address reporting and two TARF audits for Violation 1; $300 civil penalty for Violation 2. Failure to comply would suspend the business license. The order became final if no hearing was requested within 30 days; the complaint search lists it as adjudicated 02/09/2026.^{34, 35}

  February 9, 2026 · Arizona Department of Agriculture, Pest Management Division (Office of Pest Management) · Enforcement · Not scored

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

Does it sell door to door?

• N/A: the research didn’t establish door-to-door selling. It isn’t proof that the company never knocks.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #138 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 6.9 out of 10, Medium confidence.

  Strongest: legal and regulatory record (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (8.0/10).

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