Kodiak Pest Control Review

Weights add to 100% without the factors marked N/A. How the adjustments work

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

All figures retrieved October 27, 2026. “In score” marks the profiles counted in the customer-satisfaction factor.

Profile scope: Single profile at 355 1/2 Nevada Ave, Lovell, Wyoming (BBB serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming); 0 customer reviews; file opened 6/9/2025.

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 evidence of door-to-door selling by Kodiak found: the careers page is a general application form and no recruiting site, summer-sales posting or review mentioning reps at the door was found (search November 2, 2026). The owner’s About-page bio says he spent summers “selling pest control in California” years ago for other firms (not Kodiak); the page does not say door-to-door. Customers can also request quotes online (“Saw your truck”, “Referral” and “Online search” are lead-source options on the quote form).

• “Join the Kodiak Pest Control team”

  kodiakpestcontrol.com · retrieved November 2, 2026⁵

  General careers form; no sales or door-to-door role described.

Contract terms and pricing

• Residential “Kodiak Unlimited Program”: 6 scheduled treatments (“365 days a year”) plus “Unlimited services” (“Call anytime”; “No hidden fees. No limits.”); advertised “Starts at just $49/mo”. Company claims.⁴

  “Guard your home with 6 scheduled treatments that shield you from ants, spiders, wasps, mice and over 60 more common pests, 365 days a year.”

• Advertised starting price of the program.⁴

  “Starts at just $49/mo”

• Pest-free guarantee: covered pests that return are re-serviced free (company claim). No minimum term, renewal, cancellation method or fee, or arbitration clause is published on the website; the signed service agreement was not found.⁴

  “Pest-free guarantee If covered pests show up, so do we, free of charge.”

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 · US federal · LawsuitN/A

  Federal dockets (CourtListener/RECAP search of all courts): no result for “Kodiak Pest Control”. State trial-court records in Montana and Wyoming are not searchable remotely (see gaps).¹⁹

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

  BBB profile (Lovell, Wyoming): 0 complaints on file, 0 customer reviews, A+ rating, not accredited.¹¹

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

None verified.

What the company says about itself

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

• Licensed, insured and QualityPro-certified (not verified on the QualityPro/NPMA site).¹

• Family-owned local business with 24 years of combined experience; “most reviewed pest control company in the region”.²

• Residential page: “based on 1200 happy customers”.⁴

• Website testimonial widget “EXCELLENT Based on 254 reviews” is a company-chosen feed of positive quotes; not used as a rating.¹

• Serves Billings, Lockwood, Laurel, Fromberg and Bridger, Montana and Powell, Cody, Cowley, Byron, Lovell, Greybull, Basin and Worland, Wyoming; offices in Lovell (HQ), Cody, Powell and Billings only.¹

Mentions

• Pesty Marketing Podcast (Apple Podcasts) · Podcast · Date not shown · Neutral toneRead

  Why This Pest Control Company Doesn't Compete on Price

  Industry-marketing podcast interview with owner Jacob Haslem about positioning Kodiak as a premium rural-Wyoming pest company; the host’s own framing, not an independent review. Episode date shown only as “11 February” (no year on the page).

  “Most pest control companies get stuck in price wars, but Kodiak Pest Control refuses to play that game.”

• MTN News (Andrea Lutz), Facebook video · News · Date not shown · Neutral toneRead

  Months of Records Reveal Ongoing Mouse Problem at Billings ...

  Local TV segment (MTN News, Andrea Lutz) quoting “Jacob from Kodiak Pest Control” on a surge in mice across Billings after a mild winter. The snippet gives only a first name and company, not the surname or the segment date; Facebook was not opened, so this is recorded from the search snippet only and is not scored.

  “We also spoke with Jacob from Kodiak Pest Control.. who say a mild winter has led to a surge in mice across Billings”

Reddit hasn’t been searched for this company yet.

4 locations on file in Montana (1), Wyoming (3).

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:

• 1,003 western US Google reviews behind customer satisfaction (3,000 or more earns a point; 10,000 or more earns full points).
• 8 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 10.8% of the items checked (10% or fewer earns a point).

How confidence is set

Gaps in the record

• Google Maps was not opened, so they were not re-read live. The four listing addresses were checked against the company’s own office list (Lovell HQ, Cody, Powell, Billings) and match.
• Identity checked against the raw third-party records: all four records carry domain kodiakpestcontrol.com and website links to Kodiak’s own city landing pages, which show the matching office address; names match; none is closed. Address wording differs slightly (listing “182 S 32nd St Ste #3” vs site “182 S 32nd St W”; “1920 Sheridan Ave” vs “1920 E. Sheridan Ave”; “355 Nevada Ave” vs “355 1/2 Nevada Ave”). Treated as the same business; the phone mismatch is unresolved.
• Business registry not read in either state: Wyoming SOS (legal and regulatory record bot defense), Montana SOS (Cloudflare) and the OpenCorporates mirror (“Checking your browser”) were all blocked or challenged. Legal name rests on the company’s About page and the BBB entity type (Corporation).
• Licensing: Wyoming and Montana license individuals only; no company license exists to look up. Wyoming: owner Jacob Haslem (53805) and one technician (33492) found, linked by name and city only; technician Joshua Mangus not found in Wyoming. Montana (Accela, surname searches): Jacob B Haslem Commercial Applicator 106904-12 and Petrus Oberholzer Operator 9373 both show Active with expiry 12/31/2025 (past); Josh Mangus Operator 000029 runs to 12/31/2026 (name-only match). Billings branch technicians are otherwise unknown (Accela search is by person; the older MT portal is blocked), so whether Billings has a current 2026 licensee is unconfirmed.
• Insurance: neither state shows insurance for resident applicators in the lookups read (MT insurance fields blank on 106904-12; Wyoming has no requirement shown).
• Contract terms: no minimum term, auto-renewal, cancellation fee/method or arbitration language is published on the website (home, residential, commercial, about, privacy pages read); the signed service agreement was not found, so these stay unknown.
• Other review platforms: BBB has 0 reviews. No Angi, Trustpilot, Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor or Nextdoor profile surfaced in searches. Yelp and Facebook were not opened; Yelp and Yahoo Local appeared only as search results/mirrors and are not scored. No negative review text was read, so themes are empty.
• Employee reviews: Indeed, Glassdoor and RepVue were not opened and no usable snippet was found; Workplace unscored.
• Door-to-door status: no evidence either way (see the sales evidence).
• Regulatory: Wyoming AG “resolved matters” page read (it lists only “some matters”): no Kodiak entry. Montana OCP publishes no complaint data and no Montana and Wyoming pesticide enforcement list exists. OSHA establishment search is behind a human-verification check (not run); Wyoming OSHA is not searchable. Montana and Wyoming state trial-court records are not searchable remotely; the Montana Supreme Court docket was not searched. Federal courts: no CourtListener result.
• Cody Chamber of Commerce listing returned HTTP 403 (recorded as blocked). QualityPro status not verified on the issuer’s site.
• Owner/founding: Wyoming and Montana registries were blocked, so the corporation’s formation date, status and officers are unverified. “Founded May 2019” and “Kodiak Pest Control, Inc.” are company-stated (About page); BBB lists Business Started 11/25/2023 and Type of Entity Corporation. The BBB phone and the Montana records show Jacob Haslem as owner/contact.
• Facebook mention (MTN News video) is a search snippet only; Facebook was not opened and the snippet gives no date.

Open questions

• Does the Billings branch have a current 2026 Montana licensee? Haslem (106904-12) and Oberholzer (9373) show 12/31/2025 expiry; Mangus (000029) is name-matched only.
• Phone numbers on the Google listings and the BBB file differ from the site’s.
• Corporation registry details (Wyoming and Montana SOS) were blocked.