Is Midwest 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.

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS), Pesticide Bureau: Company license listed in the IDALS company lookup²

  Status: Current (expires December 31, 2026; lookup shows only an expiration date) · Number 10192-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS), Pesticide Bureau: Company license listed in the IDALS company lookup²

  Status: Current (expires December 31, 2026; lookup shows only an expiration date) · Number 11523-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS), Pesticide Bureau: Company license listed in the IDALS company lookup²

  Status: Current (expires December 31, 2026; lookup shows only an expiration date) · Number 11524-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Nebraska

  Nebraska licenses individual pesticide applicators, not companies, so there is no company license to look up.

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profiles show 2 complaints in the last three years across its BBB files; grades vary by branch.

  Not BBB accredited.

  No complaints filed in the last 12 months.^{4, 13}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  6,727 reviews across 3 western US listings, averaging 5.0 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{9, 10, 11}

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 lawsuits, settlements or enforcement actions are on file.

Three other records (complaint summaries and permits) are on its review page.

Does it sell door to door?

• Partial: door-to-door selling is documented, but only for part of how the company sells or only in the past.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #24 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 8.4 out of 10, Low confidence (provisional).

  Strongest: licensing and compliance (10.0/10). Weakest: complaint record (8.5/10). Sales and contract fairness: N/A.

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