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title: "HomeShield Pest Control Review"
description: "HomeShield Pest Control has a Handshake Score of 8.6 out of 10, ranking #11 of 164 in the West. It has 18,304 Google reviews averaging 4.9."
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# HomeShield Pest Control Review

By [Uri Mittelman](https://handshakereviews.com/authors/uri-mittelman.md), Editor · Research and verification: Handshake Research Desk · Updated November 3, 2026 · Verified October 27, 2026

Review · [Is it legit?](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control/legit.md) · [How to cancel](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control/cancel.md) · [Compare](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/homeshield-pest-control-vs-truly-nolen-pest-and-termite-control.md) · [Records](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control/records.md)

HomeShield Pest Control ranks #11 of 164 in the West, with a Handshake Score of 8.6 out of 10.

This page draws on 69 public sources retrieved between October 27, 2026 and October 28, 2026, and the record was verified on October 27, 2026. The sources are listed at the end.

## At a glance

- Rank and score: #11 of 164 in the West, Handshake Score 8.6 out of 10; data confidence high.
- 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: Anaheim, California.
- Founded: 2009.
- Services on its record: general pest, termite (inspection, treatment, fumigation), rodent exclusion, mosquito, bed bug, attic cleanup and insulation, commercial pest control.
- Record verified October 27, 2026.
- Legal name: Homeshield Pest Control Inc.
- Website: https://www.homeshieldpestcontrol.com

## How we scored it

Handshake Score: 8.6 out of 10, #11 of 164 in the West. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10; every point added or taken away is listed with the fact behind it.

- Customer satisfaction (weight 38.89%, nominal 35%): 9.7/10
  - Google 4.94 across 18,304 West reviews
  - Other platforms 5.00/5 (Facebook 5.0) — too few to blend
  - Blended 4.94/5
- Complaint record (weight 11.11%, nominal 10%): 10.0/10
  - 7 BBB complaints in 3 yrs ÷ 18,304 = 0.4 per 1,000 → 10
- Sales and contract fairness (weight 16.67%, nominal 15%): 6.0/10
  - 12-month minimum term (−1)
  - Early-cancellation fee $120 (−1)
  - Auto-renews (−0.5)
  - Mandatory arbitration / class-action waiver (−0.5)
  - Customer accounts of terms misstated at the sale (1 documented) (−1)
- Licensing and compliance (weight 16.67%, nominal 15%): 8.5/10
  - Minor administrative penalty: Solano County Agricultural Commissioner civil penalty, NOPA EA-48-2025-023 (SPCM 6520) ($250, April 7, 2025) (−0.5)
  - Minor administrative penalty: San Bernardino County Agricultural Commissioner civil penalty, NOPA EA-36-2026-028 (SPCB 5797, Corona) ($250, September 4, 2025) (−0.5)
  - Minor administrative penalty: San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner civil penalty, NOPA EA-37-2026-009 (SPCB 5762, San Diego) ($250, December 8, 2025) (−0.5)
- Legal and regulatory record (weight 16.67%, nominal 15%): 10.0/10
- Workplace score (weight 10%): not scored (< 20 employee reviews)

- Weighted average of the factors above: 9.0/10.
- Review volume 0: 18,304 Google reviews.
- Verification depth −0.4: 6 of 250 other reviews · 0 of 20 employee reviews.
- Locations 0: 22 locations.
- Handshake Score: 8.6/10.

## What customers say

- HomeShield Pest Control has 18,304 Google reviews across 22 West listings, averaging 4.9.
- Facebook (company-wide (main HomeShield Pest Control page; the…): rating not shown, 33 reviews, retrieved October 28, 2026
- Facebook (Orange County, California page (HomeShield Pest Control -…): rating not shown, 6 reviews, retrieved October 28, 2026
- Angi (California: “HomeShield Pest Control of LA” profile…): 4.8/5, 4 reviews, retrieved October 28, 2026
- HomeAdvisor (California: “HomeShield Pest Control of LA” profile…): 4.8/5, 4 reviews, retrieved October 28, 2026
- BBB (California: four BBB branch files (Irvine, Rocklin, Chula…): rating not shown, 0 reviews, retrieved October 28, 2026
- Yelp (California: Rocklin listing): 4.6/5, 312 reviews, retrieved October 28, 2026
- Negative themes recorded by our researchers: inspection visit used to present pricing rather than inspect (1 review); initial discount clawed back on early cancellation (1 review, later resolved); difficulty canceling (2 comments on a 2019 post; locations not stated).

## Better Business Bureau

- Its BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 7 complaints in the last three years across its BBB files.
- BBB accredited.
- BBB customer reviews: No reviews.
- Retrieved October 28, 2026.

## Contracts and sales practices

- Door-to-door badge: N/A.
- Sales notes: Door-to-door: not found. HomeShield sells through inbound calls and web leads, an inside-sales/customer-service team in Provo, Utah, and licensed “Outside Sales Inspectors” who visit booked inspections (a Google reviewer in Irvine describes an inspection visit by a “sales professional”). The only door-to-door job snippets belong to a different HomeShield (Nashville, Tennessee). The terms carry the statutory three-day cancellation notice for home-solicitation sales, which is boilerplate, not evidence of a door-to-door program. No review, complaint or post read here describes a HomeShield rep knocking unannounced.
- Minimum term: the company states a 12-month minimum service agreement (BBB reply, Nov 2025); the terms refer to an “initial minimum term” set in the Service Agreement. (counted in the score)
- Auto-renewal: after the initial minimum term, recurring service continues automatically month to month until the customer cancels (website terms, Section 7). (counted in the score)
- Cancellation channels: after the initial term, 30 days’ notice by the methods in the Service Agreement, including mail, email or phone; customers who enrolled online can cancel online without calling.
- Early-cancellation fee: repayment of the discount on the initial service, capped at the discount (terms); in a BBB reply the company computed one customer’s fee as $120 ($300 regular initial fee less $180 paid). (counted in the score)
- Arbitration and class-action waiver: Section 17 of the terms requires binding AAA consumer arbitration (seat Orange County) for disputes about the Services and any Service Agreement, with a class/collective waiver, a 60-day informal-resolution step, a small-claims carve-out and a 30-day opt-out. (counted in the score)
- A separate Service Agreement signed or accepted by the customer governs scope, price, frequency and terms; it is not published. The terms say the Service Agreement controls where it conflicts with them.
- Guarantee: free re-treatment if covered pests return between scheduled treatments; re-treatment is the sole remedy under the satisfaction guarantee (terms). The website advertises “unlimited free maintenance calls between regularly scheduled services”.
- Reported prices (customers): about $54 per month (BBB, Sep 2026); $60 then $45 monthly charges (BBB, Aug 2026).

## Licensing and registrations

- Status and expiry are as the issuing agency’s record showed them on the date retrieved.
- California · Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs) · Company Registration (Pest & Termite Control) · no. 6520 · status: Active · expires December 31, 2035 · note: Company Registration PR 6520 is Active and matches the number BBB reports. Ten Active branch offices are registered to the company: BR 5518 Irvine (14271 Jeffrey Rd Suite 222, the BBB Irvine mailing address), 5761 Long Beach, 5762 San Diego, 5763 Anaheim, 5794 Walnut Creek, 5797 Corona, 5816 Los Angeles, 5895 Irvine Barranca Pkwy, 5896 Mission Viejo, 5897 Pleasanton; PR 6520 itself is at the Rocklin listing address. Twelve of the 22 Google listing addresses have no SPCB registration (branch or company) at their address in the file: Laguna Beach (31601 Coast Hwy), Vacaville, San Francisco, Pasadena, Palos Verdes Estates, Sacramento (900 G St), Manhattan Beach, the Carlsbad service-area listing, Chula Vista, Rancho Cucamonga, Granite Bay and Santa Clarita (gap; not deducted, see gaps). Expiry dates are the file’s placeholder-style values (data README). The file omits canceled licenses and has no discipline column; no SPCB accusation PDF for PR 6520 was found (pr_6520_acc.pdf not tried…
- California · Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs) · Company Registration (Pest & Termite Control): sister trade name · no. 8563 · status: Active · expires December 31, 2035 · note: Pacific Shore Pest Control is a trade name of the same company (terms; court caption). It holds its own Company Registration; its Google listing (4.9 from 219, pacificshorepestcontrol.com, cid 13046792801276837015) is a separate brand and is not counted among HomeShield’s locations. The HomeShield-branded Laguna Beach listing is at a different address from PR 8563.
- Florida · Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (business registry) · Florida Limited Liability Company (business registration) · no. L22000277675 · status: Active · note: Filed 06/17/2022, principal address 1501 S. Harris Court, Anaheim (the HQ in the terms); annual reports filed 2023–2026. Florida is outside the 24 covered states; recorded for identity only.
- California · California Department of Pesticide Regulation (licensed Pest Control Business list) · Pest Control Business (main) · no. PCM 39114 · status: Listed (issued or renewed 2/19/2025, expires 12/31/2026) · expires December 31, 2026 · note: DPR business list captured by another agent on October 27, 2026. One row, at the PR 6520 Rocklin address. This is DPR’s non-structural license (e.g. landscape/mosquito work), separate from the SPCB registration.

## Legal and regulatory record

- Only resolved government actions count toward the score. Summaries are our researchers’ wording of the source.
- [PENDING, allegations only (not findings); not counted in the score] October 13, 2026 · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · lawsuit: Fair Labor Standards Act suit (nature of suit 710) filed 10/13/2026 against HOMESHIELD PEST CONTROL, LLC (the company’s Florida LLC), seen only in the court’s recent-filings list via a search snippet. Pending: recorded under Workplace as unresolved, not scored. Docket not read (CourtListener served a human check; the court page timed out on re-read).
- [Not counted in the legal score; cited as evidence for licensing and compliance] December 8, 2025 · San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner · enforcement: County agricultural commissioner civil penalty, San Diego County, NOPA EA-37-2026-009: structural civil penalty against “HOMESHIELD PEST CONTROL” (SPCB 5762, the San Diego branch), incident date December 8, 2025, 3 CCR section 6738, fine $250.
- [Not counted in the legal score; cited as evidence for licensing and compliance] September 4, 2025 · San Bernardino County Agricultural Commissioner · enforcement: County agricultural commissioner civil penalty, San Bernardino County, NOPA EA-36-2026-028: structural civil penalty against “Home Shield Pest Control” (SPCB 5797, the Corona branch), incident date September 4, 2025, Business and Professions Code section 8551.5, fine $250.
- [Not counted in the legal score; cited as evidence for licensing and compliance] April 7, 2025 · Solano County Agricultural Commissioner · enforcement: County agricultural commissioner civil penalty, Solano County, NOPA EA-48-2025-023: structural civil penalty against “HOMESHIELD PEST CONTROL INC” (SPCM 6520, the company registration), incident date April 7, 2025, Food and Agricultural Code section 15204, fine $250.
- [LAWSUIT OR ALLEGATION, claims are allegations unless the summary states an outcome; not counted in the legal score] November 1, 2024 · Los Angeles County Superior Court · lawsuit: Private employment suit (wrongful termination) filed 11/01/2024 by a former employee against Homeshield Pest Control Incorporated dba HomeShield Pest Control/Pacific Shore Pest Control and a manager. On the plaintiff’s Request for Dismissal (filed 9/18/2025, entered 9/19/2025) the action was dismissed without prejudice, with the court retaining jurisdiction under Code Civ. Proc. 664.6 (docket status “Dismissed Per CCP 664.6”); UniCourt’s header still reads Open. Terms of any resolution are not shown. Private, not wage-and-hour: recorded, not scored.
- [Not counted in the legal score] May 19, 2021 · Structural Pest Control Board (Attorney General filing) · enforcement: SPCB Petition to Revoke Probation against an individual Registered Applicator (RA 56935) that refers to the applicator’s work with Homeshield Pest Control, Inc. Individual licensee matter; the company is not the respondent as far as the snippet shows. Recorded, not scored. PDF text could not be read.
- [COMPLAINT RECORD, a count or summary of complaints, not findings; not counted in the legal score] October 28, 2026 · BBB, Mountain West & Pacific Southwest (Irvine file) · complaint-summary: Irvine BBB file (BBB Accredited since 9/18/2025, A+): 6 complaints in the last 3 years, 4 in the last 12 months. All 6 displayed show a business response (5 Answered, 1 Resolved). Topics: a cancellation fee ($120, Nov 2025), billing after cancellation (Oct 2024, Mar 2026), a rodent-exclusion job ($800 refund approved by the company, Feb 2026; marked Resolved), patio staining after a fumigation (Jun 2025; company agreed the $6,895 cleaning estimate was in line) and declining service quality (Sep 2026).
- [COMPLAINT RECORD, a count or summary of complaints, not findings; not counted in the legal score] October 28, 2026 · BBB of Northeast California (Rocklin file) · complaint-summary: Rocklin BBB file (not accredited, Not Rated: insufficient information): 0 complaints. The BBB search’s second Rocklin entry (5515 Pacific St) is an address of the same file.
- [COMPLAINT RECORD, a count or summary of complaints, not findings; not counted in the legal score] October 28, 2026 · BBB, Mountain West & Pacific Southwest (Chula Vista file) · complaint-summary: Chula Vista BBB file (not accredited, A-; file opened 4/9/2025): 0 complaints.
- [COMPLAINT RECORD, a count or summary of complaints, not findings; not counted in the legal score] October 28, 2026 · BBB serving the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Coastal California (San Francisco file) · complaint-summary: San Francisco BBB file (not accredited, C+ for failure to respond to 1 complaint): 1 complaint in the last 3 years (Aug 2026, unanswered): monthly charges continued while the customer declined visits; the customer says a phone rep had told the customer they would not be charged.
- [COMPLAINT RECORD, a count or summary of complaints, not findings; not counted in the legal score] October 28, 2026 · California Attorney General (press releases) · complaint-summary: The California Attorney General press-release search for “homeshield” returned no releases. Searches for lawsuits, settlements, attorney general, district attorney, consent orders, OSHA and FLSA/PAGA found nothing else naming the company.

## Mentions, awards and claims

### Mentions

- [HomeShield Pest Control Shares Negative, Positive Effects of Extreme Weather](https://www.pctonline.com/media/homeshield-pest-control-shares-negative-positive-effects-of-extreme-weather/) (PCT (Pest Control Technology) · trade-press): PCT video interview with HomeShield’s vice president about how California’s heavy rain and flooding affected the business (feature “Weather Related”, August issue).
- [Inc. 5000 (2023), No. 2,153](https://www.inc.com/profile/homeshield-pest-control) (Inc. · 2023 · award): HomeShield ranked No. 2,153 on the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of fast-growing private companies; profile gives founding year 2009 and 51-200 employees.
- [Help with reinstatement - \[HomeShield Pest Control\]](https://support.google.com/business/thread/384230571/help-with-reinstatement-homeshield-pest-control?hl=en) (Google Business Profile Community · October 30, 2025 · other): The company’s Pleasanton Google profile was suspended, briefly reinstated on 10/31/25, suspended again on 11/1/25 and later reinstated, per a Google community thread.
- [HomeShield Pest Control (r/homeownerstips)](https://www.reddit.com/r/homeownerstips/comments/1ga9czw/homeshield_pest_control/) (Reddit r/homeownerstips · ~2 years before October 28, 2026 · reddit): A post praising a HomeShield technician’s inspection; reads like a testimonial. Thread not fetched.

### Awards

- Inc. 5000 honoree, No. 2,153 (Inc. (Mansueto Ventures), 2023)
- BBB Accredited Business (Irvine file) (BBB, Mountain West & Pacific Southwest, 2025)

## On Reddit

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

## Locations

- States with a location on file: California.
- Cities: Los Angeles, California, Irvine, California, Walnut Creek, California, Rocklin, California, San Diego, California, Long Beach, California, Anaheim, California, Corona, California, Laguna Beach, California, Vacaville, California, San Francisco, California, Pasadena, California, Palos Verdes Estates, California, Sacramento, California, Manhattan Beach, California, Chula Vista, California, Pleasanton, California, Mission Viejo, California, Rancho Cucamonga, California, Granite Bay, California, Santa Clarita, California.

## What we couldn’t verify

Overall confidence in this score: High, 7 of 11 points. [How confidence is set](https://handshakereviews.com/how-we-review#confidence).

Where it fell short of full marks:

- Too few independent non-Google reviews to blend in (Google only).
- Verifier rated the legal and regulatory record medium (high earns a point).
- Verifier corrected or removed 10.4% of the items checked (10% or fewer earns a point).
- 22 independent websites cited (25 or more earns a point).

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

### Gaps in the record

- Live checks on October 28, 2026 matched name, address, website and state for 9 of 22 listings: Los Angeles, Irvine and the Carlsbad service-area listing and Rocklin, Walnut Creek, Laguna Beach, Sacramento, Chula Vista and Santa Clarita. The Laguna Beach phone has changed. The other 13 were not individually re-read.
- The careers page, location pages, FAQ and any published license number were not read.
- Service Agreement not published: the terms say a separate signed Service Agreement controls; its full renewal, fee and dispute wording was not seen. The company’s own statements (terms, BBB replies) are used.
- California business registry: bizfile Online is blocked and OpenCorporates served a browser check twice, so the California entity status of Homeshield Pest Control Inc was not verified. The terms name “HomeShield Pest Control LLC”; whether a California LLC replaced the corporation is unresolved.
- SPCB discipline: the DCA License Search is behind Turnstile; the bulk file has no discipline column. No accusation PDF for PR 6520 was found; pestboard PDFs did not yield text.
- Twelve Google listing addresses (Laguna Beach, Vacaville, San Francisco, Pasadena, Palos Verdes Estates, Sacramento, Manhattan Beach, Carlsbad service area, Chula Vista, Rancho Cucamonga, Granite Bay, Santa Clarita) have no SPCB branch registration (or the company registration) at their address in the October 1, 2026 file. Several are shared-office suites. Recorded as a gap, not a licensing deduction (offices without their own license are not deducted).
- Same-name Google listing not attributed: “HomeShield Pest Control”, 99 N First St #203, San Jose (4.9 from 101, cid 3224909731619346734) shows no website and has no SPCB branch; Yelp has a HomeShield page at the same address (snippet). MapQuest’s Yelp-fed page for the same address links its “Web” button to homeshieldpestcontrol.com, and San Jose is on the company’s California service-area list, but that is a directory record, not the Google listing or the company naming an office there. Probably HomeShield, but not confirmed, so left out of locations and customer satisfaction (inclusion would add 101 reviews at 4.9: customer satisfaction change under 0.01).
- Yelp (HTTP 403), Glassdoor (“Humans only”) and Indeed (“Additional Verification Required”) blocked the automated fetch; their figures rest on search snippets and are not scored. No Trustpilot or Thumbtack profile found. Nextdoor pages exist (snippets) but were not read.
- Courts: CourtListener served a human check; the S.D. Florida FLSA filing rests on a snippet of the court’s recent-filings page, which timed out on re-read. California has no statewide trial-court name search; only the UniCourt Los Angeles case was read.
- Workplace safety: the OSHA establishment search serves a human check. Not verified.
- Door-to-door: no first-hand evidence either way beyond what is in the sales evidence; Reddit threads were not fetched.
- Searches used: 39 of 40.

### Open questions

- California entity: SPCB and BBB name Homeshield Pest Control Inc (incorporated 11/9/2011); the website terms name HomeShield Pest Control LLC (matches the Florida LLC). bizfile was not readable, so the California entity status is unverified.
- Twelve Google listing addresses (incl. Laguna Beach, San Francisco, Sacramento, Chula Vista) have no SPCB registration at their address. Whether each is a staffed branch that needs its own registration was not resolved; recorded as a gap, not deducted (same as the TDA office rule).
- San Jose listing (99 N First St #203, 4.9 from 101): a MapQuest/Yelp record links it to homeshieldpestcontrol.com, but the Google listing has no website and there is no branch registration; left out.
- S.D. Fla. FLSA filing against HOMESHIELD PEST CONTROL, LLC (10/13/2026) rests on a search snippet; the docket was not read. Pending, unscored.
- SPCB RA 56935 probation petition (2021) rests on a snippet; the PDF could not be read as text. Individual matter, unscored.
- The Laguna Beach listing now shows (949) 676-2433.

## Head-to-head comparisons

- [EcoGuard Pest Management vs. HomeShield Pest Control](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/ecoguard-pest-management-vs-homeshield-pest-control.md)
- [HomeShield Pest Control vs. Truly Nolen Pest & Termite Control](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/homeshield-pest-control-vs-truly-nolen-pest-and-termite-control.md)
- [HomeShield Pest Control vs. HomeTeam Pest Defense](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/homeshield-pest-control-vs-hometeam-pest-defense.md)
- [HomeShield Pest Control vs. Advanced Integrated Pest Management](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/homeshield-pest-control-vs-advanced-integrated-pest-management.md)

## Common questions about HomeShield Pest Control

### Is HomeShield Pest Control licensed in California?

HomeShield Pest Control holds a current company pesticide license in California. Statuses are as each state agency showed them on the date retrieved.

[Licensing record](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control.md) · [Is HomeShield Pest Control legit?](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control/legit.md)

### Does HomeShield Pest Control sell door to door?

Our research didn’t establish that HomeShield Pest Control sells door to door. That isn’t proof that it never knocks.

[Sales evidence](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control.md)

### What is HomeShield Pest Control’s BBB rating?

HomeShield Pest Control’s BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 7 complaints in the last three years across its BBB files.

[BBB record](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control.md)

### Does HomeShield Pest Control charge a cancellation fee?

HomeShield Pest Control’s own terms or statements set a 12-month minimum term and a $120 cancellation fee. Service continues after the initial term until you cancel.

[How to cancel HomeShield Pest Control](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control/cancel.md)

### How does HomeShield Pest Control rank?

HomeShield Pest Control ranks #11 of 164 in the West, with a Handshake Score of 8.6 out of 10 (High confidence). Strongest: legal and regulatory record (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (6.0/10).

[How we scored it](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control.md) · [Full rankings](https://handshakereviews.com/rankings/pest-control-west.md) · [EcoGuard Pest Management vs. HomeShield Pest Control](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/ecoguard-pest-management-vs-homeshield-pest-control.md) · [HomeShield Pest Control vs. Truly Nolen Pest & Termite Control](https://handshakereviews.com/compare/homeshield-pest-control-vs-truly-nolen-pest-and-termite-control.md)

### Has HomeShield Pest Control faced government actions?

No resolved government actions count against HomeShield Pest Control in our scoring. Six other lawsuit or regulatory records are listed but not scored; pending cases and allegations are not findings.

[Legal and regulatory record](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control.md)

### Where does HomeShield Pest Control have locations?

Our record lists 22 locations for HomeShield Pest Control in California. It appears in our area rankings for 11 areas, listed by state on this page.

[Locations](https://handshakereviews.com/companies/homeshield-pest-control.md)

## Pest control in California

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## Sources

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

1. [Company website](https://www.homeshieldpestcontrol.com) — homeshieldpestcontrol.com · Company facts
2. [homeshieldpestcontrol.com](https://www.homeshieldpestcontrol.com/terms/) — Company facts · retrieved October 28, 2026
3. [bbb.org](https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/rocklin/profile/pest-control/homeshield-pest-control-1156-47032991) — Company facts · retrieved October 28, 2026
4. [homeshieldpestcontrol.com](https://www.homeshieldpestcontrol.com/about-us/) — Company facts · retrieved October 28, 2026
5. [inc.com](https://www.inc.com/profile/homeshield-pest-control) — Company facts · retrieved October 28, 2026
6. [bbb.org](https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/irvine/profile/pest-control/homeshield-pest-control-1126-1000087685) — Company facts · retrieved October 28, 2026
7. [search.sunbiz.org](https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=EntityName&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=HOMESHIELDPESTCONTROL%20L220002776750&aggregateId=flal-l22000277675-49c36137-be84-4dd7-bc26-e6f3317ce777&searchTerm=HOMESHIELD%20PEST%20CONTROL&listNameOrder=HOMESHIELDPESTCONTROL%20L220002776750) — Company facts · retrieved October 28, 2026
8. [homeshieldpestcontrol.com](https://www.homeshieldpestcontrol.com/) — Company facts · retrieved October 28, 2026
9. [homeshieldpestcontrol.com](https://www.homeshieldpestcontrol.com/careers/) — Contracts and sales · retrieved October 28, 2026
10. [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Homeshield-Pest-Control-1) — Contracts and sales · retrieved October 28, 2026
11. [reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthBayLA/comments/1dcnkmf/pesticide_services/) — Contracts and sales · retrieved October 28, 2026
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