Is Plunkett'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.

• Arkansas

  No company pesticide license record on file.

• California

  No company pesticide license record on file.

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS), Pesticide Bureau: Company license⁴⁴

  Status: Listed with expiration December 31, 2026 (lookup shows no status column) · Number 02163-000 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Kansas

  Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA), Pesticide and Fertilizer Program: Pesticide business license⁴⁷

  Status: Listed as a current PBL: categories 3, 5, 6 and 7, each expiring 12/31/2026 (KDA Pesticide Business Search for ‘Plunkett’, November 2, 2026; the lookup shows no separate status column) · Number 7071 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Minnesota

  Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), Pesticide & Fertilizer Management: Structural Pest Control Company license⁴³

  Status: Active (expires December 31, 2026; suspension is not shown in the lookup) · Number 20018762 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Missouri

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

• Nebraska

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

• New Mexico

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

• North Dakota

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

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), Structural Pest Control Service: Commercial business license⁴⁵

  Status: Current: on the TDA current-licenses report (license expiration October 31, 2027; insurance expiration January 1, 2027; renewed October 31, 2026) · Number 0795706 · Expires October 31, 2027

Better Business Bureau record

• Its company-wide BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 5 complaints in the last three years.

  BBB accredited since 4/17/1985 (headquarters file); Fridley branch file 8/9/2019.^{7, 41, 42}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  4,165 reviews across 26 western US listings, averaging 4.8 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13}

• Other

  4.78 out of 5 from 1,362 reviews (Fridley, Minnesota).³⁷

  Retrieved November 2, 2026

• BBB

  3.0 out of 5 from 12 reviews (company-wide).³⁴

  Retrieved November 2, 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.

• Followell v. Plunkett’s Pest Control, Inc., 1:24-cv-02392: Fair Labor Standards Act wage-and-hour suit by a former employee, filed March 25, 2024 and terminated September 12, 2024. The docket header does not say whether it settled, was dismissed or was adjudicated (CourtListener and Justia dockets are behind human-verification checks and were not worked around), so it is treated as an unresolved/unverified wage case, not a government action, and is not scored.⁵³

  March 25, 2024 · Illinois (U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois) · Lawsuit · Not scored

One other record (complaint summaries and permits) is 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

• #35 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 8.2 out of 10, Low confidence (provisional).

  Strongest: licensing and compliance (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (8.5/10).

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