Burke Extermination is essentially Greg Burke — his phone, his truck, and on plenty of jobs his wife alongside him — and the thing customers write about again and again is how fast he picks up. One homeowner called late on a Sunday night this past March expecting voicemail; he answered, and was at the house Monday morning for a rodent problem.
Stinging insects are what most people call about. A yellowjacket nest tucked under a deck floor, a hornet nest in garage siding, a ground nest at a new house — writing through 2025, homeowners describe him arriving within hours and finishing in minutes, and one July 2025 customer clocked it at thirty minutes from phone call to job complete.
Rodents are where the longer story sits. He seals entry points, places bait stations and comes back quarterly under an annual plan, and the customers who signed those plans in 2023 and 2024 wrote back to say the mice never came back. In a September 2024 review, a homeowner said he'd hired Burke three years earlier after five years of trying everything else, and hadn't seen a rodent since. Landlords use him too: a 2024 reviewer described bait, hole exclusion and quarterly checks across a multifamily, with the tenants dealt with directly.
Pricing comes up constantly, always in the same direction — reasonable, fair, and in a May 2024 review, cheaper than the big-name chains. A 2025 customer with dogs that hunt mice credited him for choosing an eco-conscious bait that wouldn't put the pets at risk. Carpenter ants, cluster flies and, in a 2023 review, mosquito and tick spraying for a wooded yard round out the work.
Scheduling is the thing to pin down. Two customers say he simply didn't turn up: one in June 2024 waited over an hour and never got a message, and one in December 2025 described two consecutive Fridays of no-shows after confirming the appointment twice, then a reschedule that went the same way. Against 61 reviews reaching back to 2021 that is the exception — but it is the same failure twice, eighteen months apart.
For an urgent nest or a mouse problem in a house or a rental property, this is a call-now operator with five years of customers saying he answers and finishes quickly. Ask what the annual plan covers and how many follow-up visits come with it, and confirm the appointment the day before.