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title: "Crawlies PCO Review"
description: "Crawlies PCO has a Handshake Score of 7.3 out of 10, ranking #110 of 164 in the West. It has 223 Google reviews averaging 5.0 and a BBB grade of A+."
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# Crawlies PCO Review

By [Uri Mittelman](https://handshakereviews.com/authors/uri-mittelman.md), Editor · Research and verification: Handshake Research Desk · Updated November 5, 2026 · Verified October 27, 2026

Review · [Is it legit?](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco/legit.md) · [Compare](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/insight-pest-solutions-vs-crawlies-pco.md)

Crawlies PCO ranks #110 of 164 in the West, with a Handshake Score of 7.3 out of 10. The score is provisional because its confidence rating is Low; what holds it back is under “What we couldn’t verify.”

This page draws on 17 public sources retrieved between October 27, 2026 and November 2, 2026, and the record was verified on October 27, 2026. The sources are listed at the end.

## At a glance

- Rank and score: #110 of 164 in the West, Handshake Score 7.3 out of 10 (provisional: its confidence rating is Low); data confidence low.
- Door-to-door selling: not found in our research (badge “N/A”; this is not proof the company never sells door to door).
- Ownership: independent.
- Headquarters: Belgrade, Montana.
- Founded: 2003.
- Services on its record: insect pest control (ants, spiders, wasps and hornets, flies, earwigs, boxelder bugs, clover mites), rodent management (mice, rats, ground squirrels, voles), bed bug treatment, cockroach treatment, mosquito control, fly and nuisance insect control, residential and commercial.
- Record verified October 27, 2026.
- Legal name: Crawlies PCO LLC.
- Website: https://crawliespco.com

## How we scored it

Handshake Score: 7.3 out of 10, #110 of 164 in the West (provisional). Each factor is scored from 0 to 10; every point added or taken away is listed with the fact behind it.

- Customer satisfaction (weight 46.67%, nominal 35%): 10.0/10
  - Google 5.00 across 223 West reviews
  - Blended 5.00/5
- Complaint record (weight 13.33%, nominal 10%): 10.0/10
  - 0 BBB complaints in 3 yrs ÷ 223 (West (Montana) Google review total for the one listing the BBB profile covers (Belgrade, 900 Melissa Way; 223 reviews)) = 0.0 per 1,000 → 10
- Sales and contract fairness (weight 15%): not scored
  - Sales & contract factor not scored: no contract terms or sales-conduct findings in the record; remaining weights renormalized
- Licensing and compliance (weight 20%, nominal 15%): 10.0/10
- Legal and regulatory record (weight 20%, nominal 15%): 10.0/10
- Workplace score (weight 10%): not scored (< 20 employee reviews)

- Weighted average of the factors above: 10.0/10.
- Review volume −0.8: 223 of 5,000 Google reviews.
- Verification depth −0.4: 0 of 250 other reviews · 0 of 20 employee reviews.
- Locations −1.5: 1 of 10 locations.
- Handshake Score: 7.3/10.

Not scored for lack of records: sales and contract fairness. The remaining weights were rescaled.

## What customers say

- Crawlies PCO has 223 Google reviews across 1 West listing, averaging 5.0.
- BBB (Belgrade, Montana (profile covers Belgrade and Gallatin…): rating not shown, 0 reviews, retrieved November 2, 2026
- Yelp (Belgrade, Montana): 4.9/5, 12 reviews, retrieved November 2, 2026

## Better Business Bureau

- Its BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 0 complaints in the last three years.
- BBB accredited since 2019-11-01.
- BBB customer reviews: No reviews.
- Retrieved November 2, 2026.

## Contracts and sales practices

- Door-to-door badge: N/A.
- Sales notes: 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’.
- 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.

## Licensing and registrations

- Status and expiry are as the issuing agency’s record showed them on the date retrieved.
- Montana · Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program · Commercial Applicator (individual: Donald R Bartram II, the LLC’s member per BBB; Montana licenses individuals only, no company license). Business Name and insurance fields blank. · no. 100714-12 · status: Licensing Board field shows “Active”, but the License Expiration Date shown (12/31/2025) is before the retrieval date and no License Issue Date is shown · expires 12/31/2025 · note: The number the company advertises on every page (100714-12) matches this record, which is at the company’s own address (900 Melissa Way). Montana licenses expire each 12/31; this record shows no 2026 renewal (blank issue date, 12/31/2025 expiry) while status still reads Active. Business-name search is not supported for this company, so the search was by the owner’s surname. Detail page captured November 2, 2026. Insurance Company/Policy fields blank. Personal data other than name and business address not copied.
- Montana · Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program · Operator (individual operator license, first name Bridger; employees are licensed as operators under the applicator). Business Name and insurance fields blank. · no. 5862 · status: Licensing Board field shows “Active”, but the License Expiration Date shown (12/31/2025) is before the retrieval date and no License Issue Date is shown · expires 12/31/2025 · note: Individual operator entry at the company address. Detail page opened November 2, 2026. Personal data other than first name and business address not copied.
- Montana · Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program · Operator (individual operator license, first name Bridger; employees are licensed as operators under the applicator). Business Name and insurance fields blank. · no. 9629 · status: Licensing Board field shows “Active”, but the License Expiration Date shown (12/31/2025) is before the retrieval date and no License Issue Date is shown · expires 12/31/2025 · note: Individual operator entry at the company address. Detail page opened November 2, 2026. Personal data other than first name and business address not copied.

## Legal and regulatory record

- Only resolved government actions count toward the score. Summaries are our researchers’ wording of the source.
- [COMPLAINT RECORD, a count or summary of complaints, not findings; not counted in the legal score] November 2, 2026 · Montana · complaint-summary: BBB shows 0 complaints for the Belgrade profile (3-year reporting period).

## Mentions, awards and claims

### Mentions

- [Crawlies P.C.O on Nextdoor](https://nextdoor.com/pages/crawlies-pco-belgrade-mt/) (Nextdoor · August 20, 2025 · directory): 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.

### Awards

- BBB Accredited Business (A+) (Better Business Bureau (BBB Great West + Pacific), 2019)
- Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite (Nextdoor, 2024)

## On Reddit

- Reddit hasn’t been searched for this company yet.

## Locations

- States with a location on file: Montana.
- Cities: Belgrade, Montana.

## What we couldn’t verify

Overall confidence in this score: Low (provisional), 1 of 11 points. [How confidence is set](https://handshakereviews.com/how-we-review#confidence).

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).

Verifier’s confidence by section: Identity high; Licensing medium; Legal and regulatory medium; Customer reviews medium; BBB high; Employee reviews low; Mentions medium; Sales model low.

### 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.

## Head-to-head comparisons

- [Pointe Pest Control vs. Crawlies PCO](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/pointe-pest-control-vs-crawlies-pco.md)
- [Insight Pest Solutions vs. Crawlies PCO](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/insight-pest-solutions-vs-crawlies-pco.md)

## Common questions about Crawlies PCO

### Is Crawlies PCO licensed?

Crawlies PCO has locations on file only in Montana, which licenses individual applicators, not companies. Statuses are as each state agency showed them on the date retrieved.

[Licensing record](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco.md) · [Is Crawlies PCO legit?](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco/legit.md)

### Does Crawlies PCO sell door to door?

Our research didn’t establish that Crawlies PCO sells door to door. That isn’t proof that it never knocks.

[Sales evidence](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco.md)

### What is Crawlies PCO’s BBB rating?

Crawlies PCO’s BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 0 complaints in the last three years.

[BBB record](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco.md)

### Does Crawlies PCO charge a cancellation fee?

Our record has no confirmed cancellation fee amount.

[Contract terms](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco.md)

### How does Crawlies PCO rank?

Crawlies PCO ranks #110 of 164 in the West, with a Handshake Score of 7.3 out of 10 (Low confidence). Scores 10.0/10 on every scored factor. Sales and contract fairness: N/A.

[How we scored it](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco.md) · [Full rankings](https://handshakereviews.com/rankings/pest-control-west.md) · [Pointe Pest Control vs. Crawlies PCO](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/pointe-pest-control-vs-crawlies-pco.md) · [Insight Pest Solutions vs. Crawlies PCO](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/insight-pest-solutions-vs-crawlies-pco.md)

### Has Crawlies PCO faced government actions?

No resolved government actions count against Crawlies PCO in our scoring.

[Legal and regulatory record](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco.md)

### Where does Crawlies PCO have locations?

Our record lists 1 location for Crawlies PCO in Montana.

[Locations](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/crawlies-pco.md)

## Pest control in Montana

- [#1 of 5 in Montana](https://handshakereviews.com/rankings/pest-control-montana.md)

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## Sources

17 distinct pages, numbered in the order they appear in the record. Dates are when our researchers retrieved each page.

1. [Company website](https://crawliespco.com) — crawliespco.com · Company facts · retrieved November 2, 2026
2. [bbb.org](https://www.bbb.org/us/mt/belgrade/profile/pest-control/crawlies-pco-llc-1296-64075274) — Company facts · retrieved November 2, 2026
3. [crawliespco.com](https://www.crawliespco.com/about-us) — Company facts · retrieved November 2, 2026
4. [crawliespco.com](https://www.crawliespco.com/residential-and-commercial-insect-pest-control) — Contracts and sales · retrieved November 2, 2026
5. [Google — Belgrade, Montana](https://www.google.com/maps?cid=16090385946474937323) — google.com · Customer reviews · retrieved October 27, 2026
6. [BBB — Belgrade, Montana (profile covers Belgrade and Gallatin County)](https://www.bbb.org/us/mt/belgrade/profile/pest-control/crawlies-pco-llc-1296-64075274/customer-reviews) — bbb.org · Customer reviews · retrieved November 2, 2026
7. [Nextdoor — Belgrade, Montana](https://nextdoor.com/pages/crawlies-pco-belgrade-mt/) — nextdoor.com · Customer reviews · retrieved November 2, 2026
8. [Yelp — Belgrade, Montana](https://m.yelp.com/biz/crawlies-pco-belgrade-2) — m.yelp.com · Customer reviews · retrieved November 2, 2026
9. [BBB](https://www.bbb.org/us/mt/belgrade/profile/pest-control/crawlies-pco-llc-1296-64075274#view-service-area) — bbb.org · BBB · retrieved November 2, 2026
10. [Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program](https://aca-prod.accela.com/AGR/GeneralProperty/PropertyLookUp.aspx?isLicensee=Y&TabName=Home#biz=&last=Bartram&city=) — aca-prod.accela.com · Licensing and registrations · retrieved November 2, 2026
11. [Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program](https://aca-prod.accela.com/AGR/GeneralProperty/LicenseeDetail.aspx?LicenseeNumber=100714-12&LicenseeType=Commercial+Applicator#zwsp-stripped) — aca-prod.accela.com · Licensing and registrations · retrieved November 2, 2026
12. [Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program](https://aca-prod.accela.com/AGR/GeneralProperty/PropertyLookUp.aspx?isLicensee=Y&TabName=Home#type=Commercial%20Applicator&status=Expired&last=Smith) — aca-prod.accela.com · Licensing and registrations · retrieved November 2, 2026
13. [Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program](https://aca-prod.accela.com/AGR/GeneralProperty/PropertyLookUp.aspx?isLicensee=Y&TabName=Home#type=Commercial%20Applicator&status=Active&last=Smith) — aca-prod.accela.com · Licensing and registrations · retrieved November 2, 2026
14. [Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program](https://aca-prod.accela.com/AGR/GeneralProperty/LicenseeDetail.aspx?LicenseeNumber=5862&LicenseeType=Operator#zwsp-stripped) — aca-prod.accela.com · Licensing and registrations · retrieved November 2, 2026
15. [Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA) Pesticide License Program](https://aca-prod.accela.com/AGR/GeneralProperty/LicenseeDetail.aspx?LicenseeNumber=9629&LicenseeType=Operator#zwsp-stripped) — aca-prod.accela.com · Licensing and registrations · retrieved November 2, 2026
16. [Montana](https://www.bbb.org/us/mt/belgrade/profile/pest-control/crawlies-pco-llc-1296-64075274/complaints) — bbb.org · Legal and regulatory · retrieved November 2, 2026
17. [crawliespco.com](https://www.crawliespco.com/residential-and-commercial-specialized-treatments) — Other · retrieved November 2, 2026

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