Loyal Pest Management

The man who started Loyal Pest Management is still the one who may pull up in front of your house. The company's site says Patrick founded it in 2010 and is still in it day to day, running a route or manning the phones, and BBB's profile for the Walpole business lists a single employee under president Patrick Witham. The backstory, in the company's own telling: Patrick learned pest management young, working alongside his uncle, and left his employer after it was sold to a large corporation in 2008. The business reports 16 years in business, and BBB lists it as incorporated in 2010. What he treats covers most of what goes wrong in a New England house — ants, termites, bedbugs, rodents, mosquitoes and stinging insects — for houses, commercial buildings and multi-family properties, plus wildlife removal. BBB's listing adds termite control, pest inspections and eco-friendly treatments. The stated service area stretches from Allston and East Boston through MetroWest towns like Natick, Needham, Newton and Ashland and down to Abington, East Bridgewater and Wareham on the South Shore. Its BBB page is an A+, accredited since 2011. If you would rather deal with the same person on every visit than a rotating route tech from a national brand, this is that kind of shop. Ask how a termite or bedbug job is priced, whether follow-up visits are included in the quote, and how soon he can get to you once you book.