Awesome Exterminating Company, Inc.

Forty-three years is the number that matters here. Awesome has been treating Pembroke houses since 1982, incorporated in Massachusetts in 1984, and it is still a five-person outfit with Richard Wilson's name on it as president — the same shape it has held for four decades. The work is straightforward extermination, residential and commercial, plus termite inspections. That last one is worth knowing about on the South Shore, where a termite report is often the thing standing between a sale and a delayed closing. The Better Business Bureau grades it A+, a grade it carries without having applied for BBB accreditation, and its file there goes back to 1988 — an unusually long paper trail for a small local firm. One wrinkle when you call: the company answers to two names. The Better Business Bureau lists it as Awesome Pest Control with Awesome Exterminating Company, Inc. as the alternate, and local Pembroke listings use the Exterminating name. Same phone number either way. No customer has written publicly about a job here, so longevity and the Better Business Bureau's grade are what there is to go on rather than an account of how a treatment actually goes. If you're calling about carpenter ants, rodents or a termite inspection ahead of a sale, ask which name will appear on the invoice, and get the treatment plan and any follow-up visits in writing.