Crawlies PCO Review

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How we review companies Handshake Score v1.5.0 (rules v1.0.7, confidence v1.2.1)

“In score” marks the profiles counted in the customer-satisfaction factor.

In reviewers’ words

Quoted verbatim, up to 300 characters, as recorded by our researchers with the reviewer’s first name and last initial at most. Low and high ratings are shown alternately.

• Nextdoor, Belgrade, Montana · August 20, 2025

  “Crawlies is the company we always use with great results!”

  M. S.Read on Nextdoor

Profile scope: Belgrade, Montana; serves Belgrade and Gallatin County (BBB Great West + Pacific)

Scored: Complaint record

BBB profiles

• Main profile · A+View

Door-to-door sales: N/A

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

No door-to-door evidence found either way. The company site is a customer-booking site (Book Online, Customer Login, phone) with no recruiting or summer-sales page. Searches for hiring/door-to-door/solicitor content returned nothing about Crawlies. Not enough to call it ‘no’.

Contract terms and pricing

• Insect service is offered as a one-time treatment or an annual recurring service. The published pages state no minimum term, auto-renewal, cancellation fee or method, or arbitration language, and no price list.⁴

  “Whether you’re looking for a One- Time Treatment or an Annual recurring service for year- round protection”

Status and expiry dates are shown exactly as the issuing agency’s record showed them on the date retrieved.

Only resolved government actions count toward the score. Pending lawsuits, allegations and private matters are listed here but marked “N/A” (not counted in the score). Summaries are our researchers’ wording of the source; allegations are allegations, not findings.

• November 2, 2026 · Montana · Complaint summaryScored: Complaint record

  BBB shows 0 complaints for the Belgrade profile (3-year reporting period).¹⁶

Workplace score: N/A. It carries 10% of the Handshake Score when at least 20 employee reviews are on file (otherwise excluded and remaining weights renormalized).

No employee reviews on file.

Awards and certifications

• BBB Accredited Business (A+), Better Business Bureau (BBB Great West + Pacific), 2019²

  Source shown; issuer check not recorded

• Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite, Nextdoor, 2024⁷

  Source shown; issuer check not recorded

What the company says about itself

These are the company’s own claims, quoted from its materials. We haven’t verified them.

• Locally owned and operated since 2001.¹

• Serves Big Sky, Churchill, Bozeman, Manhattan, Belgrade and Three Forks, Montana (the Gallatin Valley). No office outside Belgrade is listed.¹

• Licensed and insured; certified by the Montana Department of Agriculture (#100714-12).¹

• Family-owned; technicians attend training and certification classes.³

Mentions

• Nextdoor · Directory · August 20, 2025 · Positive toneRead

  Crawlies P.C.O on Nextdoor

  Business page with neighbor recommendations in Belgrade, Manhattan and Bozeman; named a Neighborhood Favorite in 2024. No negative posts about Crawlies seen on the page.

  “Crawlies is the company we always use with great results!”

Reddit hasn’t been searched for this company yet.

1 location on file in Montana (1).

Overall confidence in this score: Low (provisional), 1 of 11 points. N/A (not scored): sales and contract fairness. The reason is under “How we scored it.”

What keeps it from rating higher:

• 223 western US Google reviews behind customer satisfaction (3,000 or more earns a point; 10,000 or more earns full points).
• 6 independent websites cited (25 or more earns a point).
• 4 of 5 factors scored (not scored: sales and contract fairness).
• Too few independent non-Google reviews to blend in (Google only).
• Verifier rated the customer reviews medium (high earns a point).
• Verifier rated the licensing medium (high earns a point).
• Verifier rated the legal and regulatory record medium (high earns a point).
• Verifier corrected or removed 11.8% of the items checked (10% or fewer earns a point).

How confidence is set

Gaps in the record

• Google Maps was not opened. The listing’s name, address (900 Melissa Wy, Belgrade), phone (406-580-3131) and domain match the company’s own site and the raw Montana listings record; one Belgrade listing, no other covered-state listing found.
• Business registry: the Montana Secretary of State search is documented as blocked by Cloudflare and OpenCorporates as reCAPTCHA-gated; neither was attempted here. Legal name ‘Crawlies PCO LLC’ rests on BBB (entity type LLC, incorporated 2/9/2018); registry status unknown.
• Licensing: Montana licenses individuals only; no company license exists. Owner Donald R Bartram II’s Commercial Applicator 100714-12 (the number the company advertises, at the company’s own address) shows “Active” with a License Expiration Date of 12/31/2025 and no issue date; both Operator records (5862, 9629), opened individually, show the same. The state lookup’s status field never reads Expired (an Expired filter returns nothing while Active lists licenses expired as far back as 2020), and 2026 renewals elsewhere show an issue date and a 12/31/2026 expiry, so this record is either unrenewed or not yet updated; the lookup cannot say which. Recorded as shown, not read as expired. The older MT portal is blocked.
• Insurance: Insurance Company/Policy fields are blank on the Montana record; insurance expiry not shown.
• Contract terms: no minimum term, auto-renewal, cancellation fee/method or arbitration language is published (home, insect, rodent, specialized treatments, about pages read); the service agreement was not found, so these stay unknown. Online booking/customer login runs through Housecall Pro (link on the site); its terms were not read.
• Other review platforms: BBB has 0 reviews. Yelp shows 12 reviews / about 4.9 only in search snippets (Yelp not opened); Nextdoor shows recommendations with no rating or count. No Angi, Trustpilot, Thumbtack or HomeAdvisor profile surfaced. Facebook not opened. No Google review text used, so excerpts/themes for Google are empty and no negative review text was read.
• Employee reviews: Indeed, Glassdoor and RepVue were not opened; a targeted search returned no usable employer page. Workplace unscored.
• Regulatory/legal: BBB shows 0 complaints. Search for lawsuit/settlement/attorney general/complaint surfaced no action. Montana OCP publishes no complaint data and MDA publishes no enforcement list. OSHA establishment search is behind a human-verification check (not run). CourtListener (D. Mont.) search page returned no readable results (inconclusive). Montana state trial courts are not searchable remotely and the Montana Supreme Court docket was not searched.
• Reddit: a targeted search found no thread about Crawlies. Local news/trade press: nothing found.
• Founding year: company says 2001, BBB says business started 7/28/2003; unresolved.
• Facebook page (profile.php?id=61576913036229) is linked from the site; not opened.
• Contract terms: the published pages were re-read on November 2, 2026 and carry no minimum term, renewal, cancellation or arbitration language; “Annual recurring service” is not read as auto-renewal (company states no renewal rule).

Open questions

• Is the Belgrade office’s 2026 Montana applicator license on file? 100714-12, 5862 and 9629 all show 12/31/2025 with no 2026 renewal posted; the lookup cannot tell an unposted renewal from a lapse.
• Founding year: company says 2001, BBB says 2003.
• Montana Secretary of State registry (blocked), state courts and OSHA were not searched.
• Service agreement and Housecall Pro terms were not read, so renewal, cancellation and dispute terms are unknown.