Greater Dayton Pest & Rodent LTD is a fully licensed Ohio pesticide business — ODA Pesticide Business License #115079, verifiable anytime on the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s public license lookup — owned and operated by Bryan Camden, himself a state-licensed commercial applicator (verify on the applicator lookup — search “170858”). We’re based on Salem Ave in Dayton and serve homes and businesses across Montgomery, Greene, Miami, Clark, Warren, Butler, Preble, and Darke Counties — household insect treatments, rodent trapping and exclusion, and scheduled commercial programs.
Bryan came to pest control the long way. An Indiana native who has spent nearly a decade in the Dayton region, he’s renovated more than 400 homes across the area — a proud hand in Dayton’s housing reclamation and restoration — and he brought that build-it-right ethic with him when he started this company. He holds Ohio applicator licenses in general pest (10A), termite and wood-destroying insects (10B), and wood-destroying insect inspections (Category 12), which is why everything from a kitchen ant problem to a lender’s NPMA-33 report happens under one roof.
Away from the truck — and honestly, often in it — Bryan is a devout Catholic and a family man. He and his wife have six kids, and it’s not unusual to find one or several of them alongside him at work, learning the trade the way family businesses have always taught it. Whatever’s left of his free time goes to coaching youth sports, camping, and fine leather and wood craft.
When you call, you’re talking to the person who shows up. No national call center, no rotating techs, no upsell script — an inspection, a straight answer, a free quote, and a re-treatment guarantee behind every job.
Our Home in Historic Five Oaks
Our office is more than an address to us. We’re proud to be part of the Historic Five Oaks neighborhood of Dayton, inside the Salem Avenue Business District — a streetcar-era district of century homes that’s earning its comeback one building at a time, and we wanted ours to lead by example. We painstakingly renovated this property to bring it back to life while keeping all of its old-world woodwork intact: the quarter-sawn oak front door, the leaded-glass windows, the stained beadboard porch ceiling — the craftsmanship this neighborhood was built with, preserved instead of replaced.
That’s not just sentiment; it’s the same standard we bring to your house. A crew that spent months restoring hundred-year-old trim knows exactly what a century home is worth — and how to protect one from the pests that love old wood as much as we do. When we treat a Five Oaks foursquare, an Oakwood colonial, or a South Park Victorian, we work like it’s our own front porch — because we know firsthand what it takes to bring one back.
What we stand behind
- Free quotes — always. Describe the problem or text a photo, and you get a real number before any work begins.
- Re-treatment guarantee — if pest activity returns after treatment, we come back at no charge.
- Licensed & insured — Greater Dayton Pest & Rodent LTD holds ODA Pesticide Business License #115079 (verify it on the state’s public lookup), with a current certificate of insurance on file with the state as licensure requires, and owner Bryan Camden is additionally a licensed commercial applicator (#170858 — verifiable on the state’s applicator lookup); every product applied according to its EPA label, with clear safety guidance for kids and pets.
- Local — a Dayton business serving Dayton neighborhoods, not a franchise territory on a route map.
Service area
Based in Dayton and serving the Miami Valley: Dayton, Beavercreek, Centerville, Miamisburg, Springboro, Xenia and the surrounding communities — see the full service area.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Greater Dayton Pest & Rodent?
A two-person, owner-operated pest control company: Bryan Camden — the licensed applicator on every job — serving eight southwest Ohio counties with the philosophy this 200-guide library demonstrates: honest triage, published pricing logic, and treatments matched to biology rather than invoices.
Who actually comes to my house?
Bryan — the owner and license holder, not a rotating crew. The person who quotes your property treats it, visit after visit, which is both the accountability model and the reason the advice stays honest.
What licenses and credentials do you hold?
Ohio commercial applicator licensing in 10A (general pest) and 10B (termite/wood-destroying insects) — both core service lines fully credentialed, with the insurance and registrations commercial accounts expect.
What areas do you serve?
Montgomery, Greene, Miami, Clark, Warren, Butler, Preble, and Darke counties — Dayton and its ring suburbs through the farm-belt villages, every community on its own page under service areas.
Why did you publish a 200-guide library?
The founding bet: a homeowner given the honest version of every pest problem will know when a $6 fix suffices and when professional help earns its fee — and will call the company that told them the truth. The library is the marketing; the honesty is the strategy.
What is the Protection Plan philosophy?
Prevention priced fairly: quarterly service matched to Ohio’s pest calendar, free re-service between visits, no long-term contracts — earn-it-every-quarter by design, because a prevention product should be confident enough to let you test it.
Do you really talk people out of service calls?
Weekly — palm-sized paper wasp combs, single drain-tourist roaches, and springtail panics all get the honest “here is the $6 version” answer. The trust converts better than the trip charge ever would; it is the best marketing we have ever done.
What is your service guarantee?
Plan customers: free re-service between visits, full stop. One-time work: the workmanship guarantee on exclusion (re-entry through our seal = free return) and the return-if-active promise on treated nests and colonies. Guarantees stay narrow enough to be real.
How does a two-person company compete with national chains?
By subtraction — no franchise overhead in the price, no sales quotas in the advice, no crew-lottery in the service — and by the library: no national brand publishes its pricing logic or its acquittal files. Small is the feature.
How do I reach you?
(937) 569-3330 — call or text (photos welcome; identification is free), or the contact page and instant quote tool. Your pest control is only as good as our last conversation, and we answer.