Is PCI 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.

• Washington

  Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) Pesticide and SPI Licensing: Company record^{2, 25}

  Status: Renewed · Number 53258 · Expires 12/31/2026

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) Structural Pest Control Service: Commercial business license^{29, 30, 31}

  Status: Listed in TDA current-licenses report (active), file dated 26 Oct 2026 · Number 0994170 · Expires 05/31/2027

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 0 complaints in the last three years.

  Not BBB accredited.^{7, 16, 22, 23}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  2,395 reviews across 3 western US listings, averaging 5.0 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{10, 12, 14}

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 entry for PCI Pest Control or Purcell in WSDA’s published compliance enforcement-action lists for 2019 through 2026 Q3.³³

  October 28, 2026 · Washington State Department of Agriculture (pesticide compliance enforcement actions) · Enforcement · Not scored

• No enforcement row for license 0994170, “PCI” or “PURCELL”. The report covers only the last 12 months.³⁴

  October 28, 2026 · Texas Department of Agriculture (Structural Pest Control enforcement report, rolling 12 months to October 26, 2026) · Enforcement · Not scored

• No published case law for “PCI Pest Control”; the RECAP archive’s only hit is an unrelated Hong Kong “PCI Pest Control Private Ltd” in a 2020 Delaware bankruptcy creditor list. Web searches for lawsuits, settlements, attorney-general actions and consent orders (pci-pest-control-legal, pci-pest-control-court) found nothing about this company.^{35, 36}

  October 28, 2026 · Federal courts (CourtListener) · Lawsuit · Not scored

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

Does it sell door to door?

• N/A: the research didn’t establish door-to-door selling. It isn’t proof that the company never knocks.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #50 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 8.0 out of 10, Medium confidence.

  Strongest: customer satisfaction (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (9.0/10).

  How we scored itFull rankings

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