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Gunter Pest Management

Pest Control, Lawn Fertilization & Treatment, Lawn and Yard Work

About us

We are a 4th Generation Pest Management and Lawn beautification company. Started in 1950 by Reggie & Roy Gunter, Gunter is still family owned and operated by Jay Gunter Besheer (3rd generation), Noah and Hayley Besheer (4th generation), along with 30 other long time employees. We specialize in excellent service and satisfied clients and hope we can add you to our list!

Business highlights

75 years of trusted experience
Family Owned & Operated
Eco Friendly

Services we offer

General pest management, termite inspections & treatments (liquid & baiting) Bedbug heat treatments. Weed & lawn treatments. Mosquito treatments

Services we don't offer

Birds, bees or animals

Amenities

Free Estimates
Yes
Warranties
Yes
Senior Discount

$5



Accepted payment methods

American Express
Check
Discover
MasterCard
Visa

Reviews

4.8362 Reviews
Number of StarsImage of DistributionNumber of Ratings
5
83%
4
12%
3
2%
2
2%
1
1%


Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
4.8
value
4.7
professionalism
4.8
responsiveness
4.9
punctuality
4.9
Showing 76-100 of 362 reviews

Shana F.
02/2015
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
I've had 2 sessions and I have been very impressed with their professionalism and ease. I plan to continue annually.
Description of Work: I bought a deal package for a year of service.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$395

Cindy M.
01/2015
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
I think they were very knowledgeable and they have a good reputation. They also have a lot of good feedback from Angie’s List customers. They explained the process very thoroughly about the different types of systems available to treat termites and stuff. Their inspection was thorough. I think I got in on a special.
Description of Work: We use Gunter Pest Management for pest control. They put in the sentricon system for termites the last time came out.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$300

Response from Gunter Pest Management
We appreciate your business. Thank you. Jay Gunter Besheer

Carol K.
01/2015
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
They were only $50 more and they were just as good. They are very professional. They representative was very delightful and he would have been fun to work with. They were knowledgeable and honest. If they were $50 lower then they would have had the job.
Description of Work: We had them out for an estimate.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0


Jenny C.
01/2015
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
We have used them only once so far. The gentleman who came and did the service was great, gave me lots of information and kind of explained to me. The quality was excellent and they are average on price. I plan to use them again in the future.
Description of Work: We used Gunter Pest Management in September house spraying.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$140

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thank you for your review.

Gretchen B.
12/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
They are always very prompt and courteous when they come out for treatments. This is year 3 with the company and I'm very pleased and intend to stay with them for as long as the service continues to be this good!
Description of Work: Continue to use Gunter for the yearly service contract. Just renewed with them today.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$300

Yueying W.
11/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
They were good. They were nice and professional, I liked them.
Description of Work: Provided pest control service.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$275

Curt S.
11/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
We bought a year of pest control through Angie's list...they called me the next day to set up an appointment. They arrived on-time and were extremely professional! He did an excellent job and addressed all of my concerns. We had another issue in-between service time and they gladly came out to solve our issue. SO GLAD we made this purchase through Angie's List!!!
Description of Work: We bought the daily deal for a year of pest control with Gunter Pest.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$275

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thanks for taking the time to review us. We really appreciate your business. Jay Gunter Besheer

Meg Z.
10/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
Purchased deal for lawn aeration and seeding. Was contacted by company and told it was too late in the season for those services and that they would provide a refund. Was promptly contacted again and told that refund must be requested by member.
Description of Work: .
Rating CategoryRating out of 5
Yes, I recommend this pro
$249

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Sorry that the timing didn't work out. Please try us again next season!

Joy R.
10/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
Fine. Rain the next day compromised the ant bait effectiveness.
Description of Work: Sprayed entire house, set ant bait outside

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$130

MARY S.
10/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
Gunter had a special on a 1 year pest control. They came out in September and sprayed and put down mouse baits. I noticed a couple of weeks ago my basement had quite a few big black gross crickets. I call Gunter and they came out a couple of days later and fogged by house. All this was still under contract. I was told to let them know if I needed another spray or fogging.
Description of Work: Annual pest control.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$275

Paul F.
10/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
The entire transaction and service provided was exceptional. They arrived on time and performed the treatment without any disruption or delay. In the week following the treatment I have yet to see one critter alive. We've found a few dead ones though. Great job and great service!!
Description of Work: Complete interior and exterior pest treatment

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$275

ROBERT T.
09/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
There was a little initial confusion about the date of service (could happen to anyone), but that was cleared up quickly and satisfactorily. "Reed" was very professional and personable. Efficient. Seemed to be quite thorough and finished the job in a reasonable amount of time.
Description of Work: inspected home for insects and treated interior and exterior

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
4.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$275

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thanks for your nice words regarding our tech, Reed.

Roger G.
09/2014
4.0
pest control
  + -1 more
they refused to correct problem with cape tar bees
Description of Work: 1st quarterly application

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
3.0
value
5.0
professionalism
3.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
4.0

$280

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thanks for your comments. I am sorry that we couldn't handle your bees, but bees are in a pest category of their own. They take special equipment, protective clothing and ladders. Termites are also outside the normal scope of our pest treatments. We also don't do any animal control. Our treatments cover all "normal" insects like spiders, silverfish, ants, etc. If you called us primarily for the carpenter bees, then I apologize and we will be more than happy to work out some sort of refunds.

Keri K.
09/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
They were fast. Completed the work performed inside and out.
Description of Work: Pest control package purchased off of Angies List for inside and outside.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$275

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thank you for letting us perform your pest work!

Dedra B.
06/2014
4.0
pest control
  + -1 more
So far, So good. He was very professional, professional and on time, professional, nice and kind. He knows what he was doing, lets see. They told me its gonna be 80 not 170 or 159, they were very responsive, they're on time.
Description of Work: They did some pest control.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
4.0
value
3.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$170

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thanks for the nice review. Sorry about the price miscommunication. I will pass this on to our office staff to try and be more diligent in regard to providing pricing information. Jay Gunter Besheer

P P.
06/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
I have used Gunter before. It had been a number of years since I had had a termite inspection on my 90 year old home. I scheduled an appointment as a preventative. The service provider arrived at the appointed time. He did a thorough inspection both inside and out asking me questions and pointing out things as we went. He also answered some of my other questions about various services the company provides. He didn't try to sell me services, but explained to me what I did and did not need to do in the future to protect my home. If I had a complaint it would the the person on the phone that I scheduled with. I did not find her to be very friendly. I had two questions, one of which I managed to get answered before she ended the call. Perhaps there were other calls coming in, but she seemed in a real hurry to get off the phone. Not the best impression, since this is the first person I came in contact with in the company.
Description of Work: Termite inspection on my home.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
4.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$50

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thank you for taking the time to leave a positive review.

Carl W.
06/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
Gunter came out and sprayed today for the annual service. We made our appointment for 8-11am on a Saturday. Our technician Jesse called the day before to give us a much more precise time. He got to our house when he said he would and was very prompt and friendly. We have been using Gunter since we moved into our house 5 years ago and have never had a problem with pests.
Description of Work: Diamond Annual Service

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$288

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thanks for your nice review of our technician, Jesse, and of our company. We really appreciate your business. Jay Gunter Besheer

Jennifer F.
03/2014
4.0
pest control
  + -1 more
This is an updated review as I had originally given them an F. I unexpectedly bought a new home less than 5 miles from my current home 3 months after renewing my annual service agreement. I asked that my service be moved to my new home and they spray the next 2 quarter treatments there. The office staff stated that they would not refund or transfer my service. When I stated to them that I would be out more than 1/2 a year of pest treatment expense and therefore would be very upset and no longer be a customer, the office staff person did not care. That is a terrible and ridiculous policy that is just greedy. They would be out nothing to just move service to new home as they would just spray my new house instead of my old one. I asked her to mail me a copy of my signed agreement stating that I agreed to this and she mailed me a generic copy of a flyer on which she had underlined a bunch of words she deemed important. This was more than annoying, so I emailed the owner to complain about the policy. The owner apologized and agreed to have my service transferred. I was very pleasantly surprised at how quickly and nicely he responded to rectify the situation. My review rating is based on the quick response of the owner as well as the very nice and professional technicians that come out. Hopefully the office staff will respond better to situations like this in the future and the owner will consider amending this dumb policy that caused unneeded conflict.
Description of Work: Purchased annual service agreement thru them. Have used them for numerous years now.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
4.0
value
4.0
professionalism
4.0
responsiveness
4.0
punctuality
4.0

$320

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Thanks for the updated report, [removed member name] and good luck with your new home!

Ceyhun C.
03/2014
2.0
pest control
  + -1 more
My wife contacted Gunther through Angie's List for an estimate but no one ever called back or left a voicemail. This was after they responded to her message, saying they would call back. Not a very professional way to treat potential customers. I cannot speak to quality of services, price, or punctuality, as I was not going to deal with an unresponsive business. Also, we double-checked our message box on Angie's List before writing this review to make sure there had not been any missed-(or mis-) communication.
Description of Work: Did not call back.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
professionalism
2.0
responsiveness
2.0


Response from Gunter Pest Management
Sorry about not following up. Sometimes we get a little busy and forget. I hope you got your problem resolved.

Cheryl C.
02/2014
2.0
lawn service, lawn treatment
  + 0 more
My experience with them was so-so. Only one came out. I don't think the product they used was effective. They just threw it on and left. I would say to others not to use them. I would say the price was good. They were very punctual.
Description of Work: I purchased a Big Deal for Gunter Pest Management. They did some fertilization and put some weed killer.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
3.0
value
4.0
professionalism
5.0
punctuality
5.0

$29

Response from Gunter Pest Management
Sorry to hear of your "so so" review for our lawn division. Our records show that we only did that one visit 3 years ago in 2011. I assure you that the products we use are extremely effective. However, I think that is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of our lawn program based on the results of a single application. A lawn beautification program takes time to show results. We appreciate that you gave us a try, but next time, we would welcome the opportunity to treat your lawn through an entire season, which includes not only applying the pre-emergent weed application, but also the fertilizer, post-emergent weed application and turf-eating insect control. We also offer verticutting, vertislicing & seeding, for those who need it. That said, we still really appreciate your review. This may help others to understand the steps needed to help make their lawn green and healthy and that it usually requires a $300 investment, rather than a $20 investment.

Arthur S.
02/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
My experience with them was good. Good customer service and the people I came in contact with were professional.
Description of Work: I used Gunter Pest Management for pest control and management.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$125

Joel L.
02/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
They're good. We're very happy with them. They're great. It was a good price, good service, and good value. We never got termites back.
Description of Work: Gunter Pest Management came and did our termites a couple of years ago.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

carolien D.
02/2014
5.0
pest control
  + -1 more
From the very first phone call, they were friendly, informative and accommodating. they call before they come to check if there are any additional needs. I called between scheduled visits and they came right out to help solve the problem. Highly recommend.
Description of Work: We used Gunter for pest control. They come quarterly and as needed with just a phone call. They spray in and out. They bombed our attic, which took care of our pesky silverfish problems. They also handle rodent and other problems. We paid one fee for the year, based on the size of the home. Our home is 6200 sq ft. and I felt price was extremely reasonable.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$300

GREG W.
02/2014
5.0
lawn service, lawn treatment
  + 0 more
My experience with Gunter Pest Management went very well. I'm actually still using them for lawn service. They called me and ask how their lawn service had been working for them and if there was anything they could do better, to meet my needs. Having somebody call just to see if there's a problem, without having to call them, They were checking in.
Description of Work: They came out to do the fall fertilizing of my lawn.

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro
$50

Loren R.
02/2014
5.0
lawn service
  + -1 more
My experience with Gunter Pest Management went well. They're very responsive.
Description of Work: ...

Rating CategoryRating out of 5
quality
5.0
value
5.0
professionalism
5.0
responsiveness
5.0
punctuality
5.0

Yes, I recommend this pro

Contact information

220 W 72nd St, Kansas City, MO 64114

http://www.gunterpest.com

Service hours

Monday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday:
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Licensing

Bonded

Insured

Licensed*

Trade License Number
O566856832

Eco-friendly Accreditations

LEED Accredited Professional
No
Energy Star Partner
No
EPA Lead-Safe Certified
No
Use Green Products or Work Practices
Yes
State Contractor License Requirements

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*Contact business to see additional licenses.


Service Categories

Pest Control,
Lawn Fertilization & Treatment,
Lawn and Yard Work

FAQ

Gunter Pest Management is currently rated 4.8 overall out of 5.

Monday: 6:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Tuesday: 6:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Wednesday: 6:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Thursday: 6:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Friday: 6:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Saturday: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Gunter Pest Management accepts the following forms of payment: American Express,Check,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
Yes, Gunter Pest Management offers free project estimates.
Yes, Gunter Pest Management offers eco-friendly accreditations.
No, Gunter Pest Management does not offer a senior discount.
No, Gunter Pest Management does not offer emergency services.
Yes, Gunter Pest Management offers warranties.
Gunter Pest Management offers the following services: General pest management, termite inspections & treatments (liquid & baiting) Bedbug heat treatments. Weed & lawn treatments. Mosquito treatments
Birds, bees or animals

Contact information

220 W 72nd St, Kansas City, MO 64114

http://www.gunterpest.com

Service hours

Monday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday:
6:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday:
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM