After leaving G&B I worked for a friend for a while and when he sold his business I went with it. The new owner didn't have a clue, about pest control or about running a business. With a series of really bad business decisions that little company crashed and burned. Out of a job I had a choice... Go back to working for someone else or hang out my own shingle. So, in August of 1989, CPC was born!
It was just as well because I had always wanted to do things a little differently than the competition... a little innovation, a little closer interaction between owner and client. As I said earlier, I am a BIG fan of common sense so I launched the company with the idea of doing pest control from a common sense perspective. One of the big things I looked at was the standard "quarterly service program" offered by every major p.c. company around. 
Basically they cover certain specific problems and they visit your house like clockwork every 90 days. Well, one very obvious thing I learned early on is that bugs do not own calendars. I mean it would be cool if they did because then we could just make an appointment with them to meet in one place and wipe them all out. Sort of like an insect version of the OK Corral. But it just doesn't work that way. All pests react to environmental stimuli to control their cycles of life. So your treatments need to be tied to these stimuli... not the date. That's why I designed the very first of it's kind Trimester Service Program. Click that link and I'll tell you all about TSP.
Basically they cover certain specific problems and they visit your house like clockwork every 90 days. Well, one very obvious thing I learned early on is that bugs do not own calendars. I mean it would be cool if they did because then we could just make an appointment with them to meet in one place and wipe them all out. Sort of like an insect version of the OK Corral. But it just doesn't work that way. All pests react to environmental stimuli to control their cycles of life. So your treatments need to be tied to these stimuli... not the date. That's why I designed the very first of it's kind Trimester Service Program. Click that link and I'll tell you all about TSP. Philosophy
Here's the the part where it gets philosophical...
They say that you can't take "it" with you when you die, and we all know this to be true. The thing that I think most people overlook is that while you are here on Earth it can also get awfully tiresome dragging "it" around with you. There comes a point where you stop owning your stuff and your stuff starts owning you. Well, I can't be bothered with that. I believe in living simply and honestly. Some people will call my approach laziness or a lack of motivation but the truth is it is due to a deep belief in the principle of Karma and on a complete disinterest in material things.
So instead of putting a bunch of trucks on the road and raking it in, I do the work myself. I charge a reasonable rate and I make a reasonable living. I have no employee hassels that way. The Karma part shows up in the form of honesty. This is a business where it would be very easy to make a lot of money on people by misleading them. A lot of people do. But I won't tell you that you have termites when you don't just to make a sale, and I won't say you don't if you do just to make your realtor happy. I will do the job the right way. The common sense way. The honest way. And damn the torpedoes.
I am not in business to get rich. I have never wanted to work that hard or that many hours per day. It's not that I am lazy (OK maybe a little!) but I am less interested in having a big fancy house than I am in NOT having to worry about one. I do what I do because I am good at it and I enjoy it, and because I get to make a difference in the quality of people's lives. The old truck still runs. I don't owe anyone. And at night, I sleep like a baby. To me, that's what it's all about.
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Hi! I figure if you're going to have CPC come to your home you would probably like to know a little bit about me. My name is Tom Brennan and I am the owner of the business. I also do the majority of the work. I've lived in RI my entire life, raised three of the world's best new adults, am always looking for new and better ways of doing stuff and am a big fan of common sense.
Ownership
Yes, those ARE two subjects you studied in high school, but that's NOT what I'm talking about!
I started in the bug biz working for the venerable Griggs and Browne Co. back in 1982. I learned a lot there and made a lot of both good friends and fond memories.
Yeah... that's me
That sounds kind of silly to have to say, doesn't it? Well it gets my goat but the truth is that the majority of pest control companies that ADVERTISE for Coventry and Kent County work... are NOWHERE NEAR HERE! Some of them aren't even in Rhode Island. So I think it is important to point out that
I AM THE LOCAL GUY!
Have been for more than twenty years. I live right here in Coventry about two minutes from the high school. There are a couple of other guys around but they do not have the experience or the length of time in the busines that I do. And they never will. So next time you're calling around for pest control, do us both a favor and ask the person who answers the phone some pointed questions about the area. Chances are, they don't have a clue. Then ask the one's who do how long they have been in business... It won't be since 1989. Nope. There is only ONE Coventry Pest Control... and you're looking at it!
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