King Pest Solutions Review

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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.

Profile scope: Single Colorado file for the LLC (751 Horizon Ct Ste 109, Grand Junction; BBB Serving New Mexico and Southwest Colorado). The BBB search for “King Pest Solutions” shows no other file for this company (the other “King Pest Solutions, LLC” is in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, a different business). All of the company’s locations are in Colorado.

Scored: Complaint record

Complaint themes

• Cancellation not honored / service performed after canceling
• Cancellation fee and continued billing under the signed agreement
• Partial service billed and sent to collections

BBB profiles

• Main profile · A+View

Door-to-door sales: Yes

Door-to-door: yes, from the company’s own recruiting. Its site has a sales-recruiting page at /door-to-door-sales offering a summer job (“how much you can realistically make in 4 months”), its careers page lists a commission-only sales representative, and an ad dated Oct 17, 2026 (date from a search-result snippet; the JobLeads page itself is offline) sought an “Outdoor Homeowner Sales Rep - Commission-Based” in Colorado Springs. No customer review or complaint describing a King Pest rep at the door was found: Google showed only a limited (signed-out) view of 5 reviews per listing, and Yelp, Facebook, Nextdoor and Reddit were not read. The business is also clearly inbound (Google listings with ~2,800 reviews, phone quotes, a price-match offer). No city solicitor-permit records were searched.

• “Summer Job? Long Term Career? We've got both! Ask us how much you can realistically make in 4 months”

  kingpests.com · retrieved October 28, 2026⁸

  Company recruiting page at the URL /door-to-door-sales (its Wix page title in the site map is “King Pest Sales”); recruits seasonal (4-month summer) sales staff; contact kyle@kingpests.com.

• “SALES REPRESENTATIVE A commissioned based sales job. The harder you work, the more you get paid. No experience required!”

  kingpests.com · retrieved October 28, 2026⁹

• “Outdoor Homeowner Sales Rep - Commission-Based King Pest Solutions - Colorado Colorado Springs (CO) On-site”

  jobleads.com · retrieved October 28, 2026¹⁰

  Job ad (now offline) for an outdoor, commission-only homeowner sales rep in Colorado Springs, posted by “King Pest Solutions - Colorado”.

• “My company, King Pest Solutions, on the western slope is hiring. It is a sales job and is commission based.”

  facebook.com · retrieved October 28, 2026¹¹

  Facebook group post seen only as a search snippet (Facebook not fetched; Meta terms restrict automated collection).

Contract terms and pricing

• Contracts: the company states it typically offers one-, two- and three-year contracts (shortest stated term 12 months), and says a contract locks in the price.⁵

  “Typically, we offer one, two, and three year contracts to our clients.”

  Scored: Sales and contract fairness (−1)

• Every customer must put a bank card or e-check on file and is on autopay for recurring service.⁵

  “All customers will be on autopay for recurring services.”

• Billing is monthly (the company explains monthly billing in its FAQ).⁵

  “We bill monthly for several reasons.”

• Satisfaction guarantee: free re-service up to three times between scheduled services if activity is high (bed bugs not guaranteed under Colorado law, per the company).⁵

  “We will reservice your home for FREE up to three times between your regularly scheduled services if you are seeing a lot of activity.”

• Advertised price: plans from $40 a month; $50 off any recurring plan.¹²

  “Ecofriendly pest control plans starting at just $40 a month.”

• Company reply to a BBB complaint (March 19, 2026) cites a separate signed service agreement, a re-service threshold “outlined in the agreement”, a “required process” for cancellation and an “applicable cancellation fee” (amount not stated by the company). The agreement itself is not published.¹³

  “our records indicate that your account remained active under the terms of the signed service agreement”

• Customer report (BBB complaint March 18, 2026, Colorado BBB file): after a disputed cancellation the company charged a $100 cancellation fee to another card on file. First-hand; one report.¹³

  “the company charged an additional $100 cancellation fee to a different card associated with my account without my consent”

• Company reply to a BBB complaint (October 12, 2026): quarterly-program appointments are automatically rescheduled when a service is canceled or postponed; a cancellation request was not treated as complete until the customer answered a follow-up question.¹³

  “For customers enrolled in our quarterly maintenance program, appointments are automatically rescheduled when a scheduled service is canceled or postponed.”

• Not published: the service agreement, auto-renewal terms, cancellation channel and fee amount, and any arbitration or class-waiver clause. The site has a privacy policy but no terms of service; no agreement text was found.¹⁴

  “At King Pest Solutions, we are committed to protecting your privacy”

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.

• October 28, 2026 · BBB (Colorado) · Complaint summaryScored: Complaint record

  BBB file King Pest Solutions, LLC (Grand Junction, Colorado; BBB Serving New Mexico and Southwest Colorado; the company’s only BBB file): 3 complaints in the last 3 years, 2 in the last 12 months; all 3 have business responses (statuses Resolved, Answered, Answered). Themes: a service performed after the customer says she canceled by text (refunded, resolved October 2026); a disputed cancellation followed by a $100 cancellation fee (company: fee per the signed agreement, card disputes decided in its favor); an $85 charge for a partial service sent to collections (a customer inherited from an acquired company who says she had no contract).¹³

• October 28, 2026 · Colorado (CDA) · Search resultN/A

  Colorado Department of Agriculture finalized pesticide enforcement tables, SFY 2021-2025 (July 2020 - June 2025): no row in the rendered text names King Pest Solutions, Maverick Pest Management, Advanced Pest Solutions or T&J Pest Control. Coverage is incomplete: SFY 2021 rendered fully (2 of 2 pages), but the Drive viewer text for SFY 2022-2025 shows pages 1-4 of 5, so each table’s last page (the final weeks of that fiscal year) was not read (a later scroll capture of SFY 2024 showed a ‘Page 5 of 5’ marker with no further rows and no King row). SFY 2025 lists an unrelated “King Air Services, LLC”. SFY 2026 is not yet published on the enforcement page.^{33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38}

• October 28, 2026 · Colorado (Attorney General) · Search resultN/A

  Colorado Attorney General site search for “King Pest”: no release about the company (results are unrelated items, e.g. a Mesa County cannabis settlement).³⁹

• October 28, 2026 · Federal / CO appellate · Search resultN/A

  CourtListener opinions and RECAP (federal dockets) searches for “King Pest Solutions”: no results. Colorado state-court records are not searchable free online (gap).^{40, 41}

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).

Awards and certifications

• BBB Accredited Business, BBB Serving New Mexico and Southwest Colorado, 2025³

  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.

• Ecofriendly, family owned, locally operated; satisfaction guaranteed.¹²

• Products are eco-friendly and safe for children and pets (residential page) — while the FAQ says no pesticide is safe.^{5, 7}

• Expanded from Grand Junction across the Western Slope and, via a Colorado Springs acquisition, to the Front Range.⁴

• Service areas: El Paso, Mesa, Douglas, Fremont and Pueblo counties (plus Montrose and Delta on city pages).⁴⁶

• Royal Relief Program: $50,000 a year in free pest control for households in need.⁴⁷

• Technicians are individually licensed through the Colorado Department of Agriculture; the company carries insurance.⁵

• Expanding to Glenwood Springs (Facebook post; date not visible).²⁶

• A new partner is stepping into ownership to open new branches with King Pest Solutions (Instagram post).⁴⁸

• Footprint: Colorado only. No location outside the 24 covered states.¹²

Mentions

• Pest Control Technology (PCT) · Trade press · December 8, 2025 · Neutral toneRead

  King Pest Solutions Acquires Three Colorado-Based Companies

  King Pest Solutions completed three 2025 acquisitions: Maverick Pest Management (Grand Junction, September), Advanced Pest Solutions (Grand Junction, October) and T&J Pest Control (Cañon City, October). Casey McDaniel is named president.

  “adding Maverick Pest Management, Grand Junction, Colo., in September, Advanced Pest Solutions, Grand Junction, Colo., in October and T&J Pest Control, Cañon City, Colo., in October”

• Reddit r/ColoradoSprings · Reddit · Date not shown · Neutral toneRead

  King Pest Solutions: Bed Bugs : r/ColoradoSprings

  A thread titled “King Pest Solutions: Bed Bugs” (flair: Advice) on r/ColoradoSprings. The visible search snippet includes a sentence saying King Pest Solutions, like all other pest control companies, “are in it for ...” (cut off). Who wrote it, what it goes on to say and the rest of the thread were not read.

  “King Pest Solutions like all other pest control companies are in it for ...”

• Facebook group · Other · Date not shown · Neutral toneRead

  Pest King services and pricing in Grand Junction area (Facebook group post)

  A post in a Grand Junction Facebook group, seen only as a search snippet, says the poster is family owned and locally operated in Grand Junction and gives 970-250-5882, King Pest Solutions’ Grand Junction number; its slogan is “A Royal Service”. The snippet does not name the poster.

  “We are family owned and locally operated right here in Grand Junction. Royal Service call 970-250-5882”

Reddit hasn’t been searched for this company yet.

4 locations on file in Colorado (4).

Overall confidence in this score: Medium, 5 of 11 points.

What keeps it from rating higher:

• 2,829 western US Google reviews behind customer satisfaction (3,000 or more earns a point; 10,000 or more earns full points).
• Too few independent non-Google reviews to blend in (Google only).
• Verifier rated the customer reviews medium (high earns a point).
• Verifier rated the legal and regulatory record medium (high earns a point).
• 17 independent websites cited (25 or more earns a point).

How confidence is set

Gaps in the record

• Google reviews: only the signed-out limited view (5 reviews per listing, no sort or search) loaded, so negative Google reviews and any at-the-door or contract complaints in them could not be sampled.
• Google service-area listing (cid 3675194122069951017, 2 reviews, 719-275 phone): live check failed twice (network errors); likely the Cañon City (T&J) branch, not confirmed.
• Service agreement not published (no terms page on kingpests.com). Auto-renewal, cancellation channel, cancellation-fee amount and any arbitration clause are unknown; the company’s BBB replies cite a “signed service agreement”, a “required process” for cancellation and an “applicable cancellation fee”.
• CDA licensing: one business record (BusinessId 17866, Grand Junction). No separate record for Colorado Springs, Montrose or Cañon City; whether those offices operate under the Grand Junction license could not be confirmed. Acquired Maverick, Advanced Pest and T&J return no CDA business record. CDA shows no insurance.
• The SFY 2026 table is not yet posted. Colorado AG publishes no per-company complaint data (CORA request needed). Colorado state-court records are not free online; only federal (CourtListener) searched.
• OSHA establishment search not run.
• Not fetched because their terms bar automated access: Yelp, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Indeed, Glassdoor, LinkedIn. Yelp (3.4, 10), Facebook (100% recommend, 42) and Indeed (16 reviews) are snippet-only and not scored. No Glassdoor reviews page, RepVue, Angi, HomeAdvisor or Trustpilot profile was found in search results.
• No local news coverage found (Daily Sentinel, Gazette, Montrose Press searches returned nothing on the company). Reddit thread on r/ColoradoSprings read only as a snippet.
• Door-to-door: evidence is the company’s own recruiting (summer sales page, commission sales jobs); no customer first-hand at-the-door report found; city solicitor permits not searched.
• Both sites still show their own brands with no mention of King, so they are treated as separate businesses (PCT confirms the 2025 acquisitions).
• Colorado Springs: the About page says King acquired a small Colorado Springs company but does not name it; no source names it.

Open questions

• Last page of the CDA enforcement tables SFY 2022-2025 not read; SFY 2026 not posted.
• Which company was the unnamed Colorado Springs acquisition, and whether the Advanced Pest and Maverick Google listings are still operated by King.
• Signed service agreement not published: renewal, cancellation channel, fee amount and arbitration unknown.
• Whether the Colorado Springs, Montrose and Cañon City offices operate under the Grand Junction CDA license.