Pay Per Lead Services in Kings County, NY for Exterminators & Pest Control

Brooklyn's housing is old, close to half of it pre-war. The census counts 517,749 of the borough's 1,100,772 housing units as built in 1939 or earlier, and the median building dates from 1944 (Source: census.gov.). Shared walls, old plaster, steam risers, coal-chute basements and decades of utility holes give mice, rats, German roaches and bed bugs a connected network through whole blocks. In Brooklyn the building is the pest problem, so it helps to read the market building by building.

The pre-war walk-up

Bushwick, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Sunset Park are full of three- to six-storey walk-ups. A tenant calls about mice or roaches, the exterminator treats one unit, and the problem walks next door through the pipe chase. The lead worth having is the landlord or managing agent who wants the whole building on a monthly visit, because treating one apartment at a time in these buildings rarely ends the problem. Only 29.5% of Brooklyn homes are owner-occupied (Source: census.gov.), so most residential calls end with a property manager deciding.

The brownstone and the row house

Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, Bed-Stuy and Bay Ridge also have owner-occupied brownstones and row houses, often with a rental unit downstairs. These owners pay for their own service, care about how the work looks, and buy prevention: sealing, rodent exclusion at the garden level, and a quarterly visit. A bed bug inspection before a new tenant moves in is a frequent first call.

The new tower

Downtown Brooklyn has added high-rise rental buildings with professional management. They want scheduled service in trash rooms, compactor chutes and amenity spaces, with documentation for the building's records. These are commercial accounts in residential clothing.

The storefront

Restaurants and food shops along the commercial avenues in Flatbush, Bay Ridge and Coney Island need regular service and fast response, because a visible mouse in a dining room is a business emergency.

Flooding adds a twist. NYC Emergency Management lists coastal storms among the causes of severe flooding in the city (Source: nyc.gov.), and in Coney Island and the low-lying waterfront, water in a basement drives rats upward into living space for weeks afterward.

Who can legally take the call

New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation requires every business location that offers pest control to be registered and to employ a certified applicator or technician in each category it works, with applications made by the company's own employees (Source: dec.ny.gov.). That last rule rules out handing a Brooklyn job to an unregistered subcontractor, and we confirm your registration before routing. We also filter out tenants looking for help with a landlord dispute, pigeon and wildlife removal you do not offer, and anyone who just wants a photo identified.

The New York rule for a pest control company taking leads in Kings County: The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) requires that "Each business location offering, advertising, or providing the services of commercial application of pesticides" be registered, and the registered business must employ a certified applicator or technician in each category it operates in; pesticide applications must be made by employees of the business (Source: dec.ny.gov).

Brooklyn, for a pest control company working these leads: New York City requires a Home Improvement Contractor licence from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP): "A person or business must have a Home Improvement Contractor license to do construction, repair, remodeling, or other home improvement work to any residential land or building in New York City"; Applicants post a $20,000 surety bond (or enrol in the Trust Fund, $200 fee), pass a 30-question exam, and the licence period is 2 years (Source: nyc.gov).

Worth knowing as a pest control company buying leads in Kings County: The NYS Department of State's consumer guidance: "You have three days to cancel after signing a contract for home improvements," and cancellations must be in writing; It also advises a written contract with start and finish dates, scope of work and itemized price, and not paying the full amount upfront (Source: dos.ny.gov).

Leads go only to exterminators and pest control companies who can lawfully take the job in Kings County.

Places in Kings County the pest control company lead campaign covers, as the source lists them: Brooklyn neighborhoods: Brooklyn Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Park Slope, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Bushwick, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Flatbush, Coney Island.

The same pay per lead service for exterminators and pest control companies in the counties next to Kings County: Exterminators and pest control companies in Queens County, Exterminators and pest control companies in New York County, Exterminators and pest control companies in Richmond County.

Other trades we run leads for in Kings County: Locksmiths, Roofers, HVAC & Air Conditioning Companies, Plumbers, Mobile Mechanics, Painters, General Contractors, Property Management Companies.

Kings County is one of the 64 counties we cover for exterminators and pest control companies, and every one is listed on the Exterminators & Pest Control pay per lead index.