I've had bugout yard service since 1998 in the last several years they have gotten very bad at what they do. my lawn always looked great but it had gotten so bad that most of my front yard is dead. Not because of the winter like they told me but because it wasnt treated properly like it had been for years. so I am left with the expense of have to sod or seed my yard. Had a manager come take a look and bottom line is really nothing they will do besides keep trying what they have been doing. very disappointed. actually said that it should cost me more for the service I'm getting. hahaha!!! read more

I've used Bugout for over 10 years. When I had an infestation of termites and ants while trying to sell my house, they were too busy to come and provide treatment. I had to wait over a week. I also use them for lawn service and after giving them a year to improve the lawn, I did't see any difference over when I treated the lawn myself. It doesn't seem worth the price. read more

Worst bug company ever. They claim they offer a guarantee. That is definitely not the case. They'll leave you hanging with an infestation and no results. They'll tell you to pay extra so they can keep coming out and apparently that's their guarantee. Now where is that worded on their website. Horrible companyHorrible company read more

J . vanquished my underground, burrowing, yellow jacket hives...both of them ...as they appeared within days in a new, nearby hole

Worst company to do business with. Convinced me to insulate attic and then nothing but bad service. Showed up late, did it week later, then poor communication from Josh regarding documentation for tax credit. Incredibly poor service and communication. Bug and termite treatment was OK but the rest of the company is bad. I cancelled today. I would give 0 rating if I could. i will tell my neighbors in Deerwood how bad they treated me. read more

Mosquito control at my house your service sux. You change billing date at your convenience. It July and you haven't seen you since may. Please don't use read more

These photos are 5 months apart. I'll let you decide which is the before and which is after. Highly DON'T recommend wasting your money on having someone kill your lawn! read more

Bug-Out Service - Pest Control Near Me - Jacksonville, Florida

Paid 748$ and 49$ a month.They scheduled three appointments in a row and were no show no call each time. Call them and all you get is so sorry. This is no way to run a business. read more

I have used this service for seven years. However, I canceled the service recently because their service was getting worse, and the home visiting technician's attitude toward customers was very rude. I am afraid to say the wrong thing or ask for a favor. read more

Bug Out device is terrible, i have yard service or I should say weeds growing , They come out to spray and I get more weeds. I had some bedbugs they changed me $2500.00 to kill the bugs and still had them I called they said it takes a while for them to die, went to Home Depot got some bedbug spray and they died as soon as a sprayed them .its a ripoff Do not use bug out they overcharged me for the work read more

I paid bugout $400 to get rid of the moles in my yard. After 8 weeks I still had moles and bugout still had my $400. I cancelled my service with them and was told that my $400 would be refunded. It's been 4 weeks and I still haven't received my refund. I've been told twice that I would receive my refund within 4 business days. I bought baits online and was able to get rid of the moles in 2 weeks read more

Don't use them. The actual techs are very nice and know what they are doing. But, the office, scheduling, billing is awful. They expected me to wait for a 6 hour time for the tech to come in the house, and when I called for an update they wouldn't give me one, that's just one example. It used to be a much better company, but it was bought out recently and now it's dysfunctional. read more

BEWARE CONSUMERS! We HAD Bug Out for our lawn service. We have over an acre of property, and we require Bug Out, or the like, to prevent weeds in our grass and keep out the bug infestation. Despite watering our grass regularly with a comprehensive irrigation system (our water bill is in excess of $600/month in the summer months), a large portion of our front grass died. This particular area appeared to have been infested and taken over by weeds. When we reported the issue to the guy servicing our grass, we asked him what we were to do about the weed infestation and the dead grass and his response was, "I don't know!" We contacted the District Manager who did not get back to us for over a week. When he finally returned our call, he came out and looked at the grass and told us the dead grass was due to lack of water. So, we turned on our comprehensive irrigation system to show him there is no lack of water to that area as evidenced by the full coverage of water and the aforementioned $600/month water bill. The DM quickly changed his tune from lack of a sprinkler system to, "well there's not enough water in this area!" Despite ALL evidence to the contrary BUG OUT WAS NOT WILLING TO TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR LACK OF PREVENTATIVE SERVICE. The DM assessed our front lawn and said we would need to be serviced twice with a 3-week window in between to get rid of the weeds that had grown in front. Following, our regular service guy came out one time and then never returned. He was scheduled to come back 3 weeks later, and, on the date, he was scheduled to come he never showed up. We reviewed our security camera footage to find that the Bug Out truck did pass our property on that date during our service window. The driver drove right by our home, never stopping, not even slowing down and never treating our grass. When we called to inquire and express our frustration, we were told it was canceled due to weather! So, we rescheduled and again he was a no show. Yet Bug Out can point their finger at us as if it was our negligence that caused the problem. ABSOLUTELY NOT. Bug Out has been fired due to their lack of service and accountability. We will not be paying the final bill as it has now cost us $650 in time and materials to replace our dead grass and restore the remaining grass to health. BUG OUT, BEWARE BECAUSE MY RESOLVE ON THIS WILL NOT FADE AWAY. I HAVE OPENED UP A COMPLAINT AGAINT BUG OUT WITH THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU. It will be a cold day in he*l before I use my hard-earned money to fix a problem BUG OUT CREATED AND THEN TOOK ZERO RESPONSIBILITY! Anyone reading this, stay away from Bug Out. Bug Out, you owe me $650. read more

Tech submitted his service ticket without showing up. He's done it 2X. We have ring security. ticket said he used 4 gallons of herbicide. It must be the magical kind that you don't even have to show up and spray it. Canceling my Service after 10 years. It's really gone down hill. My yard is a weed farm and all they do is blame watering too much or too little. I have the most comprehensive smart watering irrigation you can get. Plus I have no way of directly contacting bugout. Just would love to talk to a manager instead of call answering service that has no idea what bugout is. It's all hired phone jockeys that dont work for bugout. Jax Beach FL. read more

I have their service and have issues with bugs and they do not provide service! They told me they will come out in a week do not use them for pest control read more

I should cancel my service with you all and will find another company in 2025. I had a pat due balance with your company and was intending to pay it when i got paid on the 24th of this month. I made a payment on 11/11 and cancelled my auto pay and set up billing on a new debit card for future payments. Someone went in and took 2 payments off my account overdrawing my account. now I have a negative balance with the bank. You are no longer approved to take auto payments from my account. I will make all my payments from now on. We had hurricane damage that we were trying to get taken care of and now you have me going through this. You don't understand you have taken money i meant for grocery. I was with your company for 3 years by choice;so if i got behind that means something is going on, you do not have the right to go in and take 2 payments after i made 1 payment; that is too much and not agreed upon. I currently have Naders for my termite service once a year,maybe I will let them take care of my bug issues also. I am very disappointed and now in a financial whole because of your tactics. All the calls you made you never called too say you too money out of my account without my permission. I am posting this on yelp and google and any other media I can. Yes I had a small bill less than 150.00 with you,not thousands you could have worked this out with me. I am considering cancelling my service and going to NADERS or somewhere else. Do Not take any more money out of my account. Period read more

I was fine - until Michael Mihan came to my house to inspect my home. I had a door who framework got water damage. He bent down and got a speck of black on his finger and said the damage was done - that he had a termite on his thumb. I am a 70yr old widow who is also a veteran. Michael continued to talk the dome and gloom that was happening to my house. I wanted to talk to a friend about this before I did anything - he said can't I make my own decisions - this went on forever - till I agreed to get him to leave. Guess what - no paperwork or contract was left with me - no cooling off period as they do not answer the phone. I think companies who strong arm seniors are disgusting. read more

worst customer 'assistance'....terrible company... none of the FIVE different number connect to the company...all managed by a call center who are not capable of simple administrative tasks, like CANCEL MY SERVICE. the service rep shows up, on the wrong day and (tries to) strong arm me into service I don't want, refuses to leave. super aggressive.... AVOID THIS COMPANY read more

I am saddened that we had to fire Bug Out recently. Our back yard looked horrible and we called to have the lawn manager come look at it. The first words out of his mouth was 'it doesn't look that bad'. It does. And it still does. So we fired them. We've been with them over 20 years and this is the service we receive when our yard looks bad. read more

Bug-Out Service - Pest Control Near Me - Jacksonville, Florida

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Becareful, they will call it a 1 year contract when it's only an agreement. They won't tell you upfront what it will cost to cancel if you need to. Then they will bill you 3x the amount for the service if you do. I asked other companies and they all said that fee was outrageous for an inside treatment cost. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THEM. read more

I have to tell you when I first started with this company I had the best rep in Jeff. Well unfortunately since then he has left, Maybe he knew something I did not. Since then they brought me into a 90 contract for lawn treatment and when this bill of goods was sold to me, I was told they would come out and treat whenever I wanted them too. So I called them Monday and they stated they would have a rep come out, he did and he determined that he did not need to treat. I wanted the lawn treated did not make a difference. They refused to come out on my request as the contract was sold to me. I then spoke with their Supervisor and he told me the same thing, we will treat after your yard is showing signs of damage. So you came out with a truck to treat, all the chemicals and the EXPERT Rep and you did not treat in an effort to make the client happy. I asked them to treat for Sod Web Worm and Dollar weed. NOTHING. Please make sure you know they will sell you something with promises that will be governed by them not you. I feel as though their SALESMAN set an expectation, that they now will not do........One thing is for sure when this Contract is up I WILL BE LOOKING FOR A NEW COMPANY! Too Bad Jeff is gone! read more

There are 3 listed here. Don't know if they are run by same management team or not but this is the bug out that services subivisions on the far northside. I had this company for years to do my lawn. Constantly weeds would sprout up. They would send someone out to spray again. Never any better. Finally I cancelled their lawn service and began just using Scott products and the result was 100 times better!!!!! I kept them as termite control until recently when iI found a better deal. I paid what I owed and told them I was cancelling, but still they sent someone, apparently and are charging me another $45 for service that they had cancelled and I had cancelled. Don't use a company that can't even keep their records straight!!!! read more

Where to start? If you want them to charge you when they don't come for two months, this might be the place for you. They caused our yard to almost completely die because of their negligence, and Mrs. Armstrong is very rude with terrible customer service. Save yourself the time, money, and headache...use TPC read more

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**ripped off and lied to **** AVOID BUG OUT LIKE THE PLAGUE after 20 years of paying Bug Out , I had a termite issue bug Out has done everything in their power to negate and not pay my claim the amount of stories/lies etc are overwhelming !!!! First they claimed I wasn't covered because they didn't initially do the treatment. i had to go to a storage facility to provide the original receipts/records which Bug Out conveniently misfiled at an afternoon of my time After much fighting and arguing over damages which have been verified by 2 contractors) Bug out agreed to pay 50 % of damages as they said i was " a valued" customer. However... once the got the bill they reneged saying they only thought is would be a few thousand dollars and didn't anticipate the real cost to repair. After TWO employees PROMISING me 50% co pay on damages.............. When i requested an independent private adjuster try to work this out they said if i do that their offer was off the table. I then said that I would have to get an attorney and they had the same response. If I got an attorney i would get "nothing" from bug out and again their offer would be rescinded. Basically Bug Out was blackmailing me to accept their minute settlement and would not even listen to contractor who sent pictures and explained damages. I was totally pushed against the wall and finally after much duress accepted their offer. Now over 2 months later, I have not been paid after emails and calls not returned from bug out, i finally called and threatened small claims court and/or investigative TV. Yea.... Bug Out did call back saying 1. phone systems issues didn't get messages 2. never got my emails 3. appears......check has not been sent etc etc still no check.......................... STAY AWAY FROM THESE LIARS............................ read more

This is the worse company in the world. I would give money to Enron. They will take a year's worth of pest control fees and act like they are treating your house and lawn, when in actuality, nothing is done. You will still have bugs and be stuck in a two year contract. I called an expressed my distaste for Bugout. Jenna (the supervisor at the Jacksonville Beach location) did nothing except take my credit card number and did not apologize for anything. I cannot wait for my contract to be over! DO NOT do business with this company! You will regret it $1300.00 later. read more

On May 28th 2016 I cancelled pest control service with them for service which began in January. On June 10th, a manager told me that a pro-rated refund check was sent to me on June 8th. Come June 20th, no check had arrived. I called again and this time I was told that a check was issued to me on June 17th. It is now June 25th and still no check has arrived. Be very, very careful about paying in advance for service, as it appears their accounting/management department is very poorly run. read more

These guys are great. I use them for pest and lawn control- they came out same-day to knock down a large wasp nest that I was unable to reach. Always very friendly and knowledgeable. read more

Service is good. However, CHECK OTHER PRICING! They're over 80% higher than others (i.e.) Pest Masters. Once you sign your Bug Out agreement, you're LOCKED IN for 2 years and you can kiss any chance of switching to other services goodbye. read more

I was still getting bugs in my home so I gave them a call to come and take a look. Roaches and millipedes. They gave me a 4 hour window to show up at my home and keep in mind this is pest control, 4 hour window for service? Well they couldn't even make that time and didn't even bother to call and let me know. 45 minutes past my service window and someone shows up banging on my door. He told me he was sent over to deal with me and had no idea why he was at my house. He told me that this was not even his area and was just told to run over here. They obviously do not care about the customer's time. I held out from writing a bad review because they did call me after my email to them and apologized for the missed appointment. I was told I would receive 2 months free for my inconvenience and guess what?, they charged me the very next month. They told me someone would contact me to discuss that a few days ago and still no phone call. I will be terminating their service as I do not see any benefits from what they are doing. Poor customer service as far as follow through! read more

I decided to write a review for this place because I had a lot of hesitation that they would never fix our bug problem. It started off we just moved to Florida and we had bugs everywhere. I was beginning to think I couldn't live here. We would see 4-5 big bugs a DAY. We were stressed out about the bug situation and nothing we were doing ourselves seemed to work, including spraying along outside our house with the over the counter stuff called Bug Guard. We finally decided to break down and pay the money. When the guy came over I noticed that he took off the electric outlet covers and sprayed or put something behind the walls. I thought they just sprayed stuff. I loved that idea. Well not soon after I began seeing bugs everywhere. I thought this stuff is not working. I also noticed the ones I was seeing were dying as they came out. I still didn't want to see them though so I called Bug Out and they assured me that after a week or so I would stop seeing them. Sure enough, we have stopped seeing them. We are SO happy we don't have bugs anymore. If we do find them, they are dead before we find them but that is very rare. We are so much happier now knowing we don't have a bug problem. (As for that review that was already here, I read that one on Google and they replied to it and said they were contacting him/her to fix the problem. I don't know what resulted but I thought I would mention it because their review put me off also). read more