Orkin

The pest control company determines the ranking based on the number of new residential rodent treatments they've done in a year.

So, which city has the most rats? Los Angeles, topping the list again, according to Orkin.

LA's year-round mild weather and dense neighborhoods, abundant access to food, water, and shelter.

Ideal conditions for rats and mice to thrive.

I, I got pretty bored just looking at my pest control competitors and realizing it was a very kind of mom-and-pop industry.

You know, there's a few large companies, like a Terminix or Orkin that are, you know, billion-dollar companies.

But the majority of people are very small.

And getting into technology and starting to build out software to help us grow and to, you know, increase our numbers, our productivity, our efficiency, have, like, a really scalable training model, that was a lot of fun.

And, um, Man, he hollered at me, invited me to lunch, and then just randomly asked me a question, pointed at some random building and said, hey, man, you ever thought about going on your own? I said, man, you know, I had.

I'd been with Orkin at that time about eight and a half years or so.

Yeah.

So he hollers at me and points at some random building and says, hey, man, have you ever thought about going on your own?

OK, termites, termites.

So we'll hit we'll do commercial residential termites, pre-treats.

OK, I'm looking into there's a there's a couple of preventative services out there, which with Orkin we used.

I'm very familiar with one certain type of product.

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Uh, okay, so they do this every year, and that is, uh, Orkin.

They do the, the, uh, th- this whole thing where they try to figure out, like, what city has the most rats in it, the rattiest city in the US.

And, uh, it's changed for the past couple years.

[laughs] Uh, Detroit-

Can we tell you how they measure that? Like how, what, what-

Uh, by calls that Orkin gets, right?

Oh, okay.

And, you know, when we've been down there, we did a typhus report a couple of weeks ago.

And L.A. just was named in the last week by Orkin that we're the rattiest city in the U.S.

So it's a dirty place to be right now.

And there's also those those fires that keep happening.