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Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from A1 Exterminators. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Scales rodent, ant, and termite jobs; bed bugs scale by room count instead.
Estimated range
$130 – $340
Typical treatment around $240
A1 Exterminators has provided pest control since 1953 and is now part of Ned's Home, offering residential and commercial pest, rodent, termite, mosquito/tick and wildlife control across Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire and Maine, with locations including Lynn and West Harwich, MA. On paper, the credentials are strong: an A+ Better Business Bureau rating (accredited since 1996), a 4.6-out-of-5 Best Pick Reports score compiled from 199 reviews, and a 4.6 on Porch from its New Hampshire branch. The handful of Google reviews on file call the work great, professional and thorough. Read individually, the accounts are more mixed. A 2025 Nextdoor recommendation described the company as responsive, saying it always eventually returns calls even when a message has to be left first. But a 2025 Reddit account described years of refilled rat bait boxes without the underlying rat problem actually being resolved, and a separate 2025 Reddit account raised concern that a termite monitoring station wasn't installed at the actual point of swarm activity. Notably, Best Pick Reports' own sampled excerpts include serious complaints about unreturned scheduling calls sitting alongside praise for individual technicians — the same source behind the high compiled score. For a company operating at this scale, it's worth asking specifically about follow-through on an ongoing rodent or termite contract and getting a direct point of contact before signing up for recurring service, given the gap between the platform-level scores and some of the written accounts.
“Last May, we had a horrific swarm of flying termites in our kitchen. Thousands of termites crawled up out of the corner of the floor and outer wall. I called A1 Exterminators, and they did an inspection and sold me on a Sentricon subterranean system which they installed around the house. My main concern was that they did not install a station near the actual swarm location, because there is a stone patio breezeway outside the wall where the activity was that prevent drilling into the ground. However they told me that because the colony is in the ground under the whole house, the station did not need to be directly at the activity site. They told me that there would likely be another swarm before the colony was fully eliminated so I expected that. I asked how we would know the system was working if we get another swarm, and they said they would do inspections on the stations, but it was confusing to me because they basically said that if they DIDN'T see evidence of feeding, that meant ”
“For a few years now, we have had these black rat boxes that A1 Exterminators told us would control our rat problem. Well, there’s no control, they just keep refilling them and report that the rat problem persists. We don’t leave trash out, no evident food outside, and we never see the rats. Just “signs” of them from these rat boxes Our neighbors don’t report any problems. All this is based on “Medford has a major rat problem“. I don’t believe this is some kind of a rip off, but I also wonder if there is another option (no cats please), or a different company with a better solution? . ”
“I use A 1 Exterminators. They’ve been pretty good. 603-888-2636. They always answer the phone but sometimes I have to leave a message but they always call back.”
Great job!
Great, professional, thorough service. Would highly recommend!
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