Here's what three years and two thousand dollars taught me:
The exterminator doesn't want your bugs gone. A solved problem cancels the contract.
I'm not being dramatic once you see how the model works, you can't un-see it. When a technician sprays, they only hit the pests you can see about 10% of what's actually in your walls. The other 90% never get touched.
And the products are built to break down in a few weeks, so right as the barrier wears off, the survivors repopulate and you're reaching for the phone again.
Spray. Break down. Bugs return. You pay. Repeat.
At $150 a month, that's $1,800 a year, forever, for a problem that's never finished. You're not buying a solution you're renting one, month after month, for as long as you live there.
And the worst part? You already suspected it. You felt that flicker of "didn't I just pay for this?" every time another bug crawled across the floor.
You were right.