Our History

During his Middle School school years, David Nelson started Eternal Lawn and Landscaping, Inc.  That company grew to 6 employee’s throughout his High School years. From 10th grade thru his 1990 Senior graduating year at Gulf High School, David was enrolled in the “On the Job Training program” which enabled him to spend most of his day working.  This experience allowed him to learn how to quickly grow his company and enjoy being his own boss while employing his fellow classmates who were also in the same OJT program. During his high school years he dated a young lady whose family ran a locally owned, small one technician pest control company, this sparked David’s curiosity and interest for the bug industry…. Shortly after graduation and after many talks and much encouragement from his father, John, David began changing his goals for the future and started to remove himself from the lawn mowing and landscaping industry (and the day to day chaos and grind  that the mowing company continually demanded of him).  This allowed David the time to position himself to enter into the pest control industry with the vision to create and pave the foundation for Nelson’s Pest Control, Inc. as it is known today.

In the early 1990’s, David added to his staff two highly trained veteran’s well known to the pest control industry who were both State Certified in different categories of Pest Control….. allowing David to began his journey  into the Pest Control industry throughout the Tampa Bay area. At the age of 25, David, himself, successfully passed all required tests to hold Statewide certifications through the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services/Bureau of Entomology and Pest Control as a Certified Pest Control Operator for the following:

• Termite and Other WDO Control                                  • Lawn and Ornamental Pest Control
• General Household Pest and Rodent Control             • Preventative & Corrective Termite Treatments’

In the spring of 2003 Nelson’s Pest Control, Inc. had grown to 18 employees & thousands of customers, and was nominated and awarded the Small Business of the Year by the St. Petersburg Times and our local Chamber of Commerce. By the summer of 2003, David became faced with both a business and personal challenge, and therefore, David was forced to strategically exited the lawn spraying division that he was so passionate about and sold it to a national company. David continued to operate Nelson’s Pest Control, Inc. by offering service to 1,200+ Indoor Pest Control and Termite customers throughout the entire Tampa Bay area (and into the Orlando area) with a staff of 4.

In the fall of 2008, it was long over due…and with great excitement David’s noncompete for the Lawn Business was over and he once again began aggressively expanding the company again by reintroducing Nelson’s Lawn & Shrub Spraying division to customers. Nelson’s Pest Control, Inc. has experienced tremendous growth since, by retaining old customers and also obtaining new ones…all while additionally focusing on assuming other local companies that align with Nelson’s strategic growth plans. This has also enabled Nelson’s Pest Control, Inc. the ability to employ additional staff of high quality professionals who, like us, focus on providing outstanding customer service.

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