Is Joshua's 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.

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board: Company Registration²⁰

  Status: Active · Number PR 5021

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board: Branch Office²⁰

  Status: Active · Number BR 5898

• Kansas

  Kansas Department of Agriculture: Pesticide business license²¹

  Status: Listed (current) on the KDA Pesticide Business Search · Number PBL 7170 · Expires December 31, 2026

Better Business Bureau record

• Its company-wide BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 1 complaint in the last three years.

  BBB accredited since 10/22/2012.^{4, 5, 18, 19}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  10,544 reviews across 3 western US listings, averaging 4.7 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{12, 14, 15}

• Angi

  4.8 out of 5 from 223 reviews (San Diego, California).¹⁶

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

• BBB

  1.44 out of 5 from 9 reviews (San Diego, California BBB file).⁸

  Retrieved October 28, 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.

• No county civil-penalty rows for Joshua’s: searches for “Joshua”, PR 5021 and BR 5898 return none attributable (the only “Joshua” row is an unrelated individual in Kings County). Sister brand Mission Pest Control (PR 7935) has its own rows; they belong to Mission’s record.²⁶

  October 28, 2026 · California county agricultural commissioners (DPR civil-penalty file, incidents September 2024 to August 2026) · Enforcement · Not scored

• Moxie Pest Control (Utah) et al. v. Nielsen et al.: Joshua’s Pest Control, L.P., Mission Pest Control and the Moxie entities sued Aptive Environmental and several Aptive employees over Aptive’s use of Moxie’s sales data (district-court cause: federal trade-secrets act, 18 U.S.C. 1836). The 10th Circuit opinion (filed January 21, 2026) affirmed and remanded. Joshua’s is a plaintiff/appellant; a private suit, not scored.^{3, 24, 25}

  January 21, 2026 · U.S. District Court, D. Utah (2:21-cv-00240) and U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Cir. (24-4076) · Lawsuit · Not scored

One other record (complaint summaries and permits) is 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

• #54 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 7.9 out of 10, High confidence.

  Strongest: licensing and compliance (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (6.0/10).

  How we scored itFull rankings

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