Is Preventive Pest Control (Houston) legit?

Licenses

Company pesticide licenses in each state where it has a location, with the status the issuing agency showed on the date retrieved.

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) Structural Pest Control Service: Commercial business license^{3, 4, 16}

  Status: Listed in TDA current-licenses report (active), file dated 26 Oct 2026 · Number 0569758 · Expires 04/30/2027

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) Structural Pest Control Service: Commercial business license³

  Status: Listed in TDA current-licenses report (active), file dated 26 Oct 2026 · Number 0787195 · Expires 06/30/2027

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 3 complaints in the last three years.

  BBB accredited.^{4, 6, 39}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  4,482 reviews across 3 western US listings, averaging 4.8 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30}

• Thumbtack

  5.0 out of 5 from 26 reviews (Houston, Texas profile).³⁵

  Retrieved October 27, 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.

• Demerey v. Preventive Pest Control Houston LLC (Harris County District Court): a private personal-injury motor-vehicle suit filed 07/17/2014 against Preventive Pest Control Houston LLC, Preventive Pest Control Logsdon LLC and an individual. The docket shows a plaintiff’s notice of nonsuit with prejudice on 12/22/2015; case closed. Private suit, no government action; not consumer-practice related. Not scored.⁴¹

  July 17, 2014 · Harris County District Court, Texas · Lawsuit · Not scored

Two 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

• #93 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 7.5 out of 10, High confidence.

  Strongest: licensing and compliance (10.0/10). Weakest: customer satisfaction (9.2/10).

  How we scored itFull rankings

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