Gold Country Termite Control

We were in contract on a home and were led to believe a pest inspection had already been done, which was not accurate. We had to rush to get it completed, and Gold Country Termite rearranged their schedule to accommodate us. They were easy to work with, communicative, pricing was reasonable, and they did a full inspection of the property, including the crawlspace. All of the negative reviews gave me pause, but most of them are very old, and we had a good experience. We recommend them.

Look elsewhere, these folks are only interested in finding reasons to drag things out and increase fees. Have nothing positive to share about the experience other than the fact that they made it easy to pay them (shocker).

I would absolutely Not recommend Gold Country Termite to anyone!! They were one of three pest control companies that came out for an inspection while I was in escrow to buy my home. The large, old, and tall wrap-around deck was the biggest repair liability with this new house, due to dry rot. One pest inspection company said 50k to replace it, another said 15k, and we had time for one more inspection. I told the inspector at Gold Country that I needed a very conservative, realistic number on the higher side and that I would negotiate for buyer credit. He nodded and said that actually, no way did I need to replace the deck, but that they could repair it for a very afforable price, as well as fix some other pest and dry rot issues around the house. His report came back at just under 6k! I couldn't believe it-- and was concerned--but was glad they could fix it for that amount. Unsurprisingly, the buyer did not give me much credit at all due to this low number (That would end up climbing to 26k! Keep reading.) Many start-date postponements later, because Gold Country Termite was losing all their employees, they got finally got going on my deck. One man and a teenage assistant - that's it! At the end of the first week, he stops and says he needs to send the inspector over because he just found more dry rot. Two days later I am issued another project/invoice of 10k!! It would be 10k more, so now I'm at 16k. I feel have no choice now because my deck is slowly coming undone, so I give another deposit. But a few days later, they stop work again and send the inspector out to my home Again. I get an email saying it will be Another 10k. Totally ridiculous! I had to pull out, furious that I had been so misled, and that the company was neglegent in their inspection (as several deck contractors would show me later clues that more wood was bad than Gold Country initially noted). Gold Country Termite priced themselves incredibly low and put " upon further inspection in small print of the report,: allowing them to keep raising the project price, once my deck had giant holes in it. I ended up losing a little five and a half thousand to this company even though I'd rather not have paid them a penny for causing me to not use my deck for two summer months, and to have cost me the a sizeable buyer credit when negotiating in escrow. Big-time lesson for this first-time homeowner!!