Move-In Pest Control in San Antonio
The house is empty for exactly one window — between their moving truck and yours. We treat it then, so the fleas, roaches, and scorpions the last residents left never meet your family.
You're Not Just Inheriting the House
Their Pets' Fleas Stayed
Dormant flea pupae survive months in empty carpet — and hatch the week your warm, breathing family arrives.
The Kitchen Has History
German roach eggs ride out vacancies inside appliance voids and cabinet hinges, waiting for groceries.
Vacancy Invites Squatters
Quiet, undisturbed houses are prime real estate for scorpions, spiders, wasps, and mice.
A Treatment for Every Kind of Fresh Start
Buyers, sellers, renters, landlords, and brand-new builds — the window is the same, the plan adapts.
An Empty House Is the Best Treatment Site in Pest Control
No furniture to work around, no food in the kitchen, no kids or pets to schedule against, and every baseboard, closet, and appliance void reachable. Treatments that take half a day in a lived-in home take ninety minutes in an empty one — and reach places we'll never see again once the sofa lands. It's the single highest-leverage pest treatment a home ever gets, and it's only possible for about a week. That's the window we exist for.
- ✓Every baseboard and void reachable
- ✓Appliance and cabinet treatment without unpacking
- ✓Products fully settled before family arrives
- ✓90 minutes, once — instead of half-days later
Closing Friday? Treated Saturday. Moving Monday.
We schedule around your closing date — 48 hours' notice is usually enough.
Book Around Closing
Tell us your closing and move dates; we lock a treatment slot in the empty window between them.
The Empty-Home Treatment
Interior baseboards and voids, kitchen and bath detail, garage, and the exterior perimeter — about 90 minutes.
Settle & Air
Products dry and settle with the house empty — you get the all-clear text the same afternoon.
Move In Shielded
Boxes, kids, pets, groceries — all arriving into a treated home, with 90 days of guarantee behind it.
What the Last Residents Actually Leave
Real finds from San Antonio move-in treatments last year.
The Flea Time Capsule
Dormant pupae in a carpeted bedroom, waiting out a three-month vacancy — hatched into our treatment instead of a toddler's ankles.
The Dishwasher Dynasty
Three generations of German roach eggs in the insulation of a 'spotless' kitchen's dishwasher.
The Garage Homestead
A wasp nest above the door tracks and a black widow colony behind the water heater — both gone before the bikes arrived.
The Attic Commuters
Active mouse runs in a vacant Stone Oak two-story — sealed and trapped before a single box went up there.
Turnover Treatment Is the Cheapest Clause in Your Lease
One tenant's kitchen habits shouldn't become the next tenant's move-in complaint — or your liability. Our renter turnover service treats every unit in the empty days between leases, documents it with photos and product records, and keeps multi-unit pricing flat. Agents: a move-out treatment on the seller's side removes the classic day-before-closing pest surprise, and the certificate travels with the file.
- ✓Between-lease treatment as standard practice
- ✓Photo + product documentation per unit
- ✓Flat multi-unit and portfolio pricing
- ✓Move-out certificates for sellers and agents
Fresh Starts, Delivered
The previous owners had three dogs and, it turned out, a dormant flea population waiting in the carpet. Fresh Start treated the empty house two days before our truck arrived — we never saw a single flea. Best 90 minutes of the whole move.
We scheduled around closing day and they had the whole house — baseboards, appliance voids, garage, yard perimeter — done before the furniture existed in it. Moving in knowing that was already handled took a real weight off.
I turn over a dozen rentals a year and the turnover treatment is now standard between every tenant. German roaches from one renter's kitchen never make it to the next lease, and the paperwork covers me if anyone claims otherwise.
Everything Buyers Ask During the Chaos
How much does a move-in treatment cost in San Antonio?
A flat price by home size — empty homes are efficient to treat, and the price reflects that. The 90-Day New-Home Plan adds two follow-up visits for a modest bump. You'll have the exact number before you book, in writing.
How much notice do you need?
48 hours usually does it, and we hold slots for closing-week chaos — dates slip, we adjust. Booking a week ahead gets you first pick of the window.
The house looks spotless. Do we really need this?
Spotless is about the previous owners' cleaning; pests are about biology. Flea pupae, roach eggs, and scorpion harborage don't show at a final walkthrough — they show three weeks after you move in. The empty window is cheap insurance you can never buy again.
Is it safe to move in right after treatment?
Yes — that's the beauty of the empty window. Products are applied to an unoccupied home and are fully dry and settled before your family, pets, and belongings arrive. You get an all-clear text the same afternoon.
Can you treat while our stuff is already in the house?
Of course — we do standard occupied treatments too. But if your move date hasn't happened yet, don't waste the window: the empty treatment reaches places we physically can't once the furniture lands.
What does the 90-day guarantee cover?
Any covered pest activity inside 90 days of your move-in treatment gets a free re-visit. New house, new start — and we hold the line while you unpack.
Book the Treatment Only an Empty House Can Get
Tell us your closing and moving dates — we'll handle the only week this is possible.
Shield Your Move
- Visit us1931 Broadway St, San Antonio, TX 78215
- Call us(210) 555-0129
- Email ushello@freshstartpestshield.com