Upper Left Pest

Upper Left Pest is a licensed, owner-operated pest control company in Clackamas, Oregon, working the Portland metro and nearby towns including Sunnyside, Gladstone, and Molalla. One thing to fix before anything else: the .com domain redirects to an unrelated Indonesian shopping site. The .net version is the live one. It loads cleanly and shows the phone number and address, so that is the URL to keep.

Owner and service area

Lance McGinnis owns and runs Upper Left Pest, and has for eight years. His name and his Oregon license are on every job. That is a different setup from a franchise running rotating crews, and eight years in a market where the national chains compete means Upper Left Pest has held its customer base without folding or rebranding. Worth knowing before reading the rest.

Crawl space inspection and rodent treatment

Upper Left Pest lists coverage for more than 35 pest types, but the real focus is crawl space work and rodent treatment. Plenty of exterminators spray the perimeter and leave. Upper Left Pest folds a full crawl space inspection into the home evaluation, and sells crawl space cleanout and decontamination as standalone jobs. Dead animal odor elimination is on the list too. These are the one-time, do-it-right jobs where a callback is the failure mode. The crawl space emphasis tracks the actual problem: rodents nest under houses, and moisture in an uninspected crawl space rots structure that a quarterly spray never touches. A homeowner with mice in the walls and a damp crawl space underneath gets a contractor who treats both problems together.

Integrated pest management approach

The stated method is integrated pest management. Find and seal entry points, cut the conditions that draw pests in, and ease off recurring chemical use over time. Products are described as low-toxicity and safe around children and pets. Most operators say the same, so the claim alone proves little, but it fits a company that leans on source-level fixes instead of repeat perimeter spraying. For a household with dogs or small kids, the chemical profile is a genuine filter, and Upper Left Pest puts it in writing rather than burying it.

Pricing and scheduling options

Upper Left Pest charges $39 a month for the recurring plan, billed quarterly, no contract. New customers on the plan get 20 percent off the first service. Estimates are free. Those are numbers you can weigh without a sales call. Same-day appointments run Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. For a live rodent problem or a wasp nest found that morning, a slot next Tuesday is no answer, so same-day availability is a practical edge in this market. Requests also go through a form on the .net site. No email address is published, which means the phone is the only direct line.

Review ratings across multiple platforms

HomeAdvisor and Angi both show 5.0 out of 5 for Upper Left Pest, though neither review count is confirmed in the listing. The BBB lists an A+, not accredited, with one visible review describing early satisfaction and then a follow-up service lapse. Yahoo Local sits at 3.0 out of 5 across four reviews. Pests.org aggregates a score from 14 web reviews. Yelp has a listing but hides the count. No Google or Trustpilot totals are public.

The picture is uneven. The contractor platforms run high, Yahoo Local drags the average down, and the published review total across every source stays under twenty for a company eight years in. Portland has plenty of pest firms with longer review trails, so that mismatch between tenure and volume stands out for Upper Left Pest. Against a hundred reviews, one BBB complaint about a missed follow-up is noise. Against this record, it is most of the outside evidence there is. Ask about that complaint directly when you ask about the quarterly plan.

Contact runs through the listed phone number, the Clackamas address confirmed across third-party directories, and the request form on the .net site. There is no published email.

The credentials and the prices are stated plainly, and on those alone the Upper Left Pest offer is judgeable: a named licensed owner, a fixed sub-$40 monthly rate, free estimates, crawl space work most spray-and-go outfits skip. The outside record is the weak part. Fewer than twenty published reviews after eight years is a narrow base to trust a recurring contract against, and that contract is the one product here that asks for more history than the .net site can show. The one-off crawl space and rodent jobs carry less of that risk; the monthly plan carries more. The redirect on the .com domain is the other loose end, and an easy one for the owner to close.