Is ClearDefense 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.

• Arkansas

  No company pesticide license record on file.

• Louisiana

  Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry: Place of Business Permit^{33, 43}

  Status: Active (LDAF POB list revised April 20, 2026) · Number 001ZM8 · Expires 6/30/2026 (per the April 2026 list); BBB records the license with expiry 6/30/2027

• Missouri

  Missouri licenses individual pesticide applicators, not companies, so there is no company license to look up.

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture: Commercial business license⁴²

  Status: Active (listed in TDA’s current-licenses report, file dated 26 Oct 2026) · Number 0882194 · Expires 04/30/2027

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profiles show 0 complaints in the last three years; grades vary by branch.

  Not BBB accredited.^{33, 41}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  10,052 reviews across 5 western US listings, averaging 5.0 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{18, 19, 20, 21, 22}

• Thumbtack

  4.9 out of 5 from 10 reviews (Austin, Texas).²⁷

  Retrieved October 27, 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.

• Clear Defense, L.L.C. sued ClearDefense Pest Control of Greensboro, Charlotte and Raleigh LLCs in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina for trademark infringement under the Lanham Act (No. 1:17-cv-01139). Private suit outside the West. A memorandum opinion and order signed 10/23/2018 (filed October 24, 2018) granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss in part and denied it in part; the final outcome was not verified (Justia returned 403).^{46, 47}

  2017 · U.S. District Court, M.D.N.C. · Lawsuit · Not scored

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

Does it sell door to door?

• Yes: the research record documents the company selling door to door.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #2 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 9.3 out of 10, High confidence.

  Strongest: customer satisfaction (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (9.0/10).

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