I've had a contract with Aptiva and had to terminate paying $199. They would randomly schedule service and expect you to wait all day for them. I finally terminate my contract because I rescheduled for a date I could take off and waited 4 hours for service. Only for the pest control guy to tell me 30 mins prior that he is coming to my house at the end of the route. I already planned my whole day around him coming from 8-12 and had another appointment at 1. When i called Aptiva to schedule a specific time, they said I had to pick another day. Ridiculous that a pest control appointment cause me a whole day's pay. I just canceled my contract which cost me $199. Do not sign up for Aptiva. The service is horrid. And honestly, I don't think the pest control was any better than if you serviced your house yourself. read more

A sales representative has been harassing our neighborhood for two days. He rang our doorbell number of times and was knocking as well and then did same to our neighbors. High pressure sales. We are in the middle of a pandemic and their sales person has no mask on and going door to door. What do we do when pest company sends a pest of their own. We respond by sharing our disappointment and dissatisfaction on here. read more

Aptive Pest Control - No mask aggressive and obnoxious sales person - Pest Control Near Me - Austin, Texas

An Aptive representative showed up on my door today selling "environmentally safe" pest control, yet she had no clue what the ingredients were. I told her I'm using Barefoot Pest Control where they disclose ingredients of essential oils and pyrethroid. The Aptive saleswoman said they don't use essential oils but had no clue which pesticide they use. read more

Please keep your commissioned sales kid at home. I have a no selling/ trespassing sign on the door and he still rang my doorbell. I did not ask for you to send him. Don't send anybody again. To top it off, he lied to me saying that he was doing the neighbor's house. It is vacant. Try teaching some ethical tools to your people and quit promising high commissions on an overpriced product to get them in the door. read more

Cram-down treatments on a rigid schedule, lying salesman, impossible customer service. Generally a fraudulent, sleezy outfit. Check BBB's review. Don't follow any links, go directly to BBB.com and enter "Aptive Environmental" in the search box. I have never before seen a rating of REVOKED. The May treatment went okay, barely. They sent a nice enough young man, a college student from Florida, doing exterminating as a summer job. Looked like they told him how to do it, but didn't actually train him. I had to repeatedly show him areas he missed. He sprayed all the basebords, but skipped the door thresholds a major pest entry port. Then it came time for the June treatment... I'm out of town most of the summer every year. I come home for the last week of August to take care of business. I explained this to the salesman when I signed up for the series of treatments: No summer treatments except the last week of August . He assured I could postpone the June and July treatment until I was home and could let them in. That was a big fat lie. They pelted me with emails and texts, "We're coming! Billing is automatic! Treatment can't be postponed." A dozen such emails and texts. Their customer service line is off the hook during most businesses hours. Emails just provoke more of the above, all automated. I finally got through on the phone and left a message threatening to have me neighbor put his pit bull in the yard. And, wonder of wonders, I got a human reply, "Are you threatening our technician??" I replied, "Yes!" They terminated my account (thank God) and billed me $199 for what I have no idea. I'm not paying it of course, and the instant they turn me over to a collection agency I'm going to Small Claims Court and suing them under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and for slander of credit. They will reply that the dispute has to go to arbitration, and any suit has to be in Colorado. I know the answer to that, I've been down this road many times and I'm good at it. I CAN NOT WAIT! These bottom feeders deserve it. read more

Used these jacka$$es for 8 months. It almost seemed like they made the bugs worse. Never available via phone, and the workers are clueless. They WILL however have a ton of dorky sales dudes pushing the whole neighborhood sales door-ring scams. Uggh! these sales guys want to make me scream! Moved to a local company and ZERO probs, no more carpenter ants, not one roach sighting since. F'ing Aptive came to my door again today- REFUSED TO LEAVE. read more

They have the most unprofessional and rude sales people I've ever experienced. They have been in our neighborhood all week. They ignore no solicitation signs. They trample landscape. They do not take no for an answer. They are disturbing people left and right. It has to stop. I would never do business with a company who used these type of sales techniques. read more

I regret letting Aptive's door-to-door salesman talk me into buying what I thought was just a single treatment in the amount of $54.13. What I didn't know at the time was that I had signed a long-term contract. A couple of weeks later I was shocked to discover that there was another Aptive exterminator in my back yard. I told him to go ahead with the second treatment but that I wanted no more visits. Later I get a bill for $177 for both visits, a big mark up for the 2nd visit. I immediately sent Aptive a written notice to cancel my service. But later I found out that there was an additional $199 penalty for early cancelation. In other words, I had to actually pay for the privilege of getting rid of these jerks. read more

I recently lost my job. After three days of finally getting ahold of someone and explaining that I need to cancel my service due to hardship. The representative kept pushing me to stay on service. I told them being laid off was beyond my control and yet they demand that I pay them their $199 cancelation fee, or they will turn it in to collections. Absolutely no sympathy from Aptive and they don't care. Please review all of the reviews out there, including BBB. You will see they cancelled their accreditation due to overwhelming bad reviews. read more

Terrible Company - I signed up for service but the company continually rescheduled my service 3 times in a row with no explanation. I paid for services that I never received. Do not do business with this company. read more

This company is a scam....read your contract carefully because they will talk about the great discounts they are giving you, then add additional fees. I paid over $500 for an initial payment and then over $300 per treatment. They were charging me for German Cockroach service...which in reality you don't need since the regular treatment does that...it's just their scam fees. On top of that, I had to pay $199 cancellation fee...which I was "glad" to do, since I signed up under a new pest control company that will charge me $89 for the same service, so will get my money back basically after the first treatment. Again...look at your contracts carefully....they are out to scam people with their fast sales pitch. My bad...lesson learned. read more

Dishonest practices---customer service that is polite but doesn't deliver as stated---good products that work as expected It is my opinion that this company, though having products that perform as expected, is primarily focused on making as much money off the customer as possible and do so in a dishonest manner. Presented to me as a "quarterly" service, they have repeatedly attempted to come bi-monthly, and treatments are attempted with same-day texts, the most recent with a "20 to 40 minute" notice. Additionally, though they sold my first treatment at a reduced rate, a "follow-up" treatment was done a month later at the quarterly rate. When I said something about it, I was told the treatment was needed to get any pests that were missed. I have spoken by phone with them about the scheduling and was told my account would be noted for every 3 months, but 2-month treatments continue to be attempted, necessitating the need to call the office to reschedule. Also, the fact that the service was a 2-year contract was withheld until the end of the sales pitch and agreement to use their service and it's all electronic. There is no paper copy of the contract. If you choose to use this company, expect to pay more. read more

Almost got hit by one of the drivers. He ran the stop sign, good thing my husband stepped on his breaks. The Driver was driving very fast and would've hit the side with my 5 month old baby. He continued to drive Recklessly. Speeding and no signal light. This accident could've of been bad. read more

Aptive Pest Control - Aptive vehicle - Pest Control Near Me - Austin, Texas

We have a friendly no soliciting sign on our door. Despite that, Aptive made 5 trips to our house this week trying to get us to answer. Even after my husband put up an additional paper sign for them that said "we are not answering due to the pandemic" they wouldn't quit. It is not surprising at all that they are the kind of company that created a marketing podcast called "Leveraging the Pandemic to Build an Extraordinary Sales Team, with David Royce and Vess Pearson". LEVERAGING THE PANDEMIC. Let that sink in. read more

Aptive Pest Control - Pest Control Near Me - Austin, Texas

Complete scam! 6 months of treatments along with follow ups and pest kept getting worst. Save the time and hassle steer clear of this company. I feel bamboozled I feel for this company. Home team was 100% better and going back to them today. Scam! read more

The pest control service itself has been fine, but their customer service is horrible. Their website has issues fully loading pages when you log into your account. I tried multiple times to reschedule an appointment through the website and could never get it to work. I finally called their local Austin number and was told that no one was available and it forwarded me to my account manager who did not answer the phone or reply to my text messages. I had to reschedule because I had a PM appointment and they did not come out until 6:30pm while I was out for dinner. I got no call telling me the window in which they were coming. Just a text after the fact that they missed me. read more

I'm honestly really surprised by all these negative reviews, so far our experience with Aptive has been great. We have a ton of mosquitos in our backyard and the usual other bugs but I knew we needed a "bug guy" so I guess that made me more open to Aptive when they came to our front door. The salesman, Dallin, was kind and professional, he had an Ipad with him to show me their google reviews, etc when I told him I preferred to do my research and I really liked that he was prepared in that way. We signed up for their services right then that day, we normally turn away all solicitors but like I said, he was professional and prepared and we desperately needed a bug guy. The sign up process was easy and efficient. The Segway? I agree, a lot cheesy and bit over the top but that doesn't effect my service so what does it matter you know? Anyhow, our first service was scheduled for the following afternoon with Wes. Wes was on time, friendly, and informative. The service was knocked out in under 30 minutes for our 1500 sq. ft. home and our pets were able to use the backyard again in about 30 more when everything dried. We are looking forward to our next treatment when they take care of the mosquito problem - I will update this review then. read more

Their customer service has been really great for me. The techs have been awesome too! However, I've noticed that having them spray hasn't done a whole lot for me. I still have ants and for the first time, I found two roaches in my bathroom. What made me cancel service as of today (7/8/2021) was the mosquito spray that I recently had done. Within 24 hours of having my yard sprayed, my dog started vomiting. Now, they recommend keeping your pets locked up for an hour after the spray. I waited 3 hours just to be safe. The dog still vomited for 4 days afterwards. Cancelling was easy and I may come back to them in the future. read more

I have had them for a year and I don't see improvements in our pest situation. I have found roaches and spiders right after spraying, and ants in my house. Had them out to take care of a wasp nest, they just knocked it down with a broom and the wasps were right back the next day. Techs are here for like 5 mins only, so not even sure if they are doing everything. Have had to call for resprays often, not what I would expect for what they are promising. Customer service is terrible, good luck getting through to a human being. When I finally did, I was hung up on when they tried to transfer me to someone else. I still haven't been able to connect...high call volume is not a good sign. They do come out on time every quarter, and the techs are generally nice, the only positives I have seen. read more

Aptive uses hard sell on-site sales practices to pitch their very overpriced pest services. It all sounds good until you see what the execution guys do...they at your house for maybe 10 mins & claim victory if they knock down one wasp nest. They didn't spray my entire yard as promised, didn't flag some issues that they sprayed & leave your windows & doors with a spotty film that is hard to clean off. Their service is maybe worth $30-40 per application but not the $200 that they charge each time. Buyer beware! read more

I signed up for Aptive because they were cheaper than my previous provider. I was to have quarterly service. Apparently, that meant every two months. I was charged four times in six months for QUARTERLY PEST SERVICE. I'm waiting on hold to cancel the service. This is my second phone call to cancel the service. I warned the person that called I would put this review on Yelp! if they didn't say, "Yes, we'll cancel your account." Instead I sat through a sales pitch. Even Spectrum's service isn't this bad. Don't use them. They are fraudsters. read more

4 young men have solicited our house for this company in the LAST 2 DAYS ALONE. Their sales tactics are aggressive and disingenuous as they have repeatedly lied trying to get us to either open our door or extend a conversation with them. They ARE NOT WEARING MASKS, and getting very close to the door when it is answered (within a couple of feet of me). I was also approached on the street by a sales rep while out for an evening run. He WAS NOT MASKED and got right up close to me, blocking the sidewalk so that I had to stop my run to speak to him. This is not only IRRESPONSIBLE of this company, but frightened me as a woman. The company DOES NOT answer the phone (on hold for a very long time). ***edited to say, make that 5 young men in 2 days now... read more

Whatever you do DO NOT USE THIS COMPANY!!!!!! I got suckered into using their service after the sales rep assured me they would take care of our concerns. Long story short we almost lost our dog due to the lack of their service... they were treating our yard for fleas and my poor dog is covered... not sure what they were doing when they were "servicing my yard " and this is not the first time we have called concerned about the fleas but this time tops it off! Said they were coming every 10 days to service our yard for fleas.... they were definitely just taking my money and putting nothing in my yard read more

Aptive Pest Control - Pest Control Near Me - Austin, Texas

Sales person did not wear a mask or maintain social distance, risking our health and well-being. Stay away. read more

The Aptive sales person completely ignored my 'no soliticiting' sign and told me that my neighbor was getting their yard serviced the next day. I live on a block where we all know and talk to each other. When I asked my neighbor about it, she said absolutely not. So I waited for the sales person to come back down the street and I called him on it. He said, 'No really. They have service tomorrow.' Don't a trust a company whose sales people lie and disrespect homeowners who prefer no soliciting. read more

Been a customer of Aptiv since May 2023. While the technicians that come to the house are nice and professional the administration is horrible. I hired them for mosquito and roach abatement which has moderately effective. The customer service is overseas and its IMPOSSIBLE to reach a local representative. I've asked the technician to have a local representative call me but had no response from Aptiv. I even drove to Aptiv Austin office; the lights were on, door locked and no one answering the door. I don't understand my contract and have a terrible time communicating with the overseas call center. They are also quite expensive after giving an initial low price treatment. There are other options in Austin. read more

Aptive and Bruce at Aptive are awesome!!!! You are set up automatically for service inside and outside your home every quarter. At any time in between services, if we see a live or dead bug in the house we can call and schedule an additional spray service for inside and outside at NO CHARGE. That's like unheard of. Definitely makes you feel good about your payment! We've moved into a new home and have had probably 3-4 services done, all of the employees have been VERY nice to work with, all while being Covid safe. I will say Bruce (Nickname: Batman) went above and beyond though! He talked with me about what specific bugs I have seen and was polite entering our home. Bruce was extremely patient and thorough even though we were his last service on a Friday afternoon. Aptive is lucky to have a dedicated and happy employee like him. Thank you Bruce and thank you Aptive for continuing to provide a great service!! read more

Adaptive Pest- putting your life at risk all to make a sale. Adaptive Pest came to my door today, 6/26/20 during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. I have a no soliciting sign prominently on the door. I only answered the door as I was expecting a utility company to come by and make my lines. The man did not introduce himself or state which company he was with. I asked if he was from the utility company. He said no. He showed me his tablet which had Adaptive Pest on it. I said if you're selling something I'm not interested and closed the door. He remained on my front porch. I opened the door again and pointed out that I have a no soliciting sign and to please leave. I also stated that with coronavirus spiking he should not be going door to door. At that point he was still on my front porch and I repeated again that he needed to leave. He retorted that he's just staying out of the rain. I said no leave my property now. Wow. What a disrespecting company and person! If I contract coronavirus they can pay my hospital bills. I am livid. read more

A guy came to my house last night at 7:45 pm and refused to leave after ringing my doorbell because he could hear the TV on. Just stood there leaning on my porch column like he lived there now. I answered the door and said I wasn't interested and instead of gracefully leaving he launched into his spiel anyway, telling me my house was infested with spiders (not true but I'd be happy if it were) and mud daubers (also good) and the snails on my walls would kill a dog (don't have a dog), and told me if he didn't spray fire ants would bite me in my sleep. At this point he was the third worst pest I've had on my property (behind two squirrels in the attic and a belligerent not-so-handyman) and I was like please leave. He asked if I would be home tomorrow and said he would come by again. WHY GOD. Also, he was riding some weird scooter thing that he PARKED IN MY GARDEN leaning it on my favorite rose bush. Who stores an item inside a walled garden that doesn't belong to them? Even if I needed pest control, which I don't, I wouldn't call these people now because what if they are all as crazy as the guy trying to sell the service? read more

A sales representative came to our door yesterday and wasn't wearing a mask. He stood back but it made us really uncomfortable. He explained that we could get a one time treatment for $50 that would treat for ants and mosquitoes. When we said that we weren't interested, he dropped the price to $20. The mosquitoes have gotten pretty bad so it seemed like a good deal. We found out the next day that he had used our credit card info to sign us up for a year of treatments at $259 each. I have now been on hold for over an hour trying to get it cancelled. This company is a total scam read more

I wish I could give them 0 stars. Everything about this company is awful. Save your time, money and frustration and use a different pest service. read more

Soliciting door to door in a no soliciting neighborhood. When I said I wasn't interested the person just kept pushing his sales pitch. This was at 7pm. There's no respect here, interrupting a family's evening for a sale. They'll never see my business. read more

I usually dont review service. I'm a foodie girl, but this is some mess. The last time got serviced was MAY. They came on some random day I was not home to show where the problem areas were. It is now AUG. I have tried to call multiple times to get rid of spider situation we have to no avail. Its IMPOSSIBLE TO CANCEL. Phones? No answer, their machines hang up on you after 25 minutes exactly on hold. It says something when the on hold message clearly say 'do not push 2 for sales, our sales representative cannot assist you' why the heck not?!?! Ive left 3 voice mails. Email? Lol its been 2 weeks since Ive sent one. No answer. App message? It doesnt matter what day you choose your service. They will tell you which day is most convenient for them. Not good for you? Okay push it back, give them days good for you so they can totally disregard that, rinse and repeat. Also its a Pest control company, why does their app need your location permission?!?! They have your address on file. Let that sink in. UPDATE: I called first thing today at 0900 and finally got through. The rep said it has to be approved by a manager. My 'appointment' is canceled today ( they set, not me, totally inconvenient for me). I hope this is the end. I changed my credit card number to make sure no questionable charges come through read more

Disrespectful door to door sales tactics. Told the guy I already have a local pest control provider and he proceeded to disrespect them. He also lied about servicing other neighbors when in fact I know they use the same company I do. If these guys can't be truthful with their sales then why would you trust them with your home? read more

Echoing what others have said regarding their door to door sales tactics. Sales guy came to our door twice yesterday with the last occurring at 9pm. I'm not sure who in their right mind would answer the door at 9pm to a stranger, but nevertheless he tried. Totally inappropriate. I don't really blame the guy because it seems like he is just doing what Aptive is telling him to do. Aptive, please be more respectful of your neighbors and community. read more

A "manager" Dave or David (didn't care to listen to what he had to say) came by twice today. The first time we ignored him and just watched him on multiple security cameras across the property before leaving, while walking entirely through our yard. Not taking the hint, he came by again this evening. Both times he ignored the "no soliciting" sign. When we called him out on it, he said he didn't see it despite it being RIGHT BY THE DOORBELL which he was able to successfully locate and ring. Looks like multiple people are complaining about him on NextDoor and some are calling the cops to report him. What a joke. Have some respect. Learn to read. read more

Door knocking from 6-9 at night trying to sell sell sell.. Do not knock on my door at 9pm! No! read more

Why did your door to door salesman come to my house at 9:30pm on a Thursday? And why did he not stop and leave when I politely told him I wasn't interested? Why did I literally have to shut the door in his face to get him to shut up? There is no way this tactic is working for you. I will most certainly pick ANY OTHER pest control service when I need it now. read more

Be aware that I am writing this amid the Coronavirus crisis. This week is in fact the beginning of the "Phase 1" Texas reopening. As of this the time of this review, polling shows that many people are still deeply concerned about reopening, and strict social distancing guidelines are still in place. We've been here in the house for 7 weeks as of today, since they closed the schools. So we were pretty shocked when someone rang our doorbell unexpected and uninvited. He had backed up to about 8 feet away from my door, so I opened it. It was a guy in his 20s in an Aptive t-shirt with a clipboard wanting to sell me pest control. I told him to leave my property, and pointed out that people don't want strangers at their door right now! Disgusted that any company would think it appropriate to send out door-to-door salesman right now, I called the phone numbers listed on their website to make sure the guy who rang my bell wearing an Aptive t-shirt wasn't just a scammer out casing houses or something and was actually one of their employees. One of the numbers on the website was disconnected. The "Austin" location number was answered by someone in Utah. She said she didn't have a direct line to the Austin branch but could send them an email asking them to call me. Hmmm. That seemed pretty shady, especially in combination with the door-to-door guy and the b.s. website contact info. So I started Googling the company and pest control companies out of Utah who do door-to-door sales in general. You can Google it yourself, but after reading a dozen or so articles I decided it sounded like a pretty shady racket, possibly one that exploits college age kids. You make your own call. Then, to my surprise, someone with a Texas phone number DID call me back. They claimed to be from Aptive and after hearing my complaint, disavowed that they had Aptive Pest Control salesmen out doing door-to-door sales right now. So, they could be lying and throwing the kid they are exploiting under the bus (they seem shady) or the kid could be up to no good and he is the one exploiting their name. In either case, neighbors beware and make a careful, informed choice. read more

Pest control was just ok. Poor communication. Unprofessional responses. Will not take a written form for cancellation and instead "requires" verbal - ?? Supremely irritated with this company right now. read more