A real inspection takes time, walking the property, checking entry points, nesting spots, whatever's actually drawing pests in. In my experience, corporate pest control runs off a generic checklist and volume instead, with routes built around how many houses you can hit in a day, not how much time an inspection actually needs. When I worked in corporate pest control, a normal day meant fifteen, sometimes twenty houses on the route, which doesn't leave much room for a real look around.

In my experience, because I lived it, that pace is brutal to keep up in Phoenix heat. When it's 115 degrees outside and it's not your name on the company, it's hard to blame anyone for moving fast just to get the spraying done and get to the next stop. I don't fault the guys doing the work; I was one of them.

And in my experience, that's exactly the kind of setup where the inspection is the first thing to get skipped, not because the techs don't care, but because the system never rewards slowing down to actually look. I watched it happen around me more times than I can count. That's exactly why I run things differently now. There's nobody else to hand the blame to if I miss something on your property, so the inspection isn't a formality, it's the whole reason I catch what other guys walk right past.

I only book as many homes as I can actually spend real time on, which means every inspection gets done right: entry points checked, nesting spots found, and everything explained to you in plain English after. No sales pitch, no add-ons you didn't ask for, and nobody rushing out the door because there's a dozen more stops on the clock.