WHO IS MIKE ALLEN
* Why should we care?
Besides being and Author and Inventor, Mike has appeared on numerous radio shows. He is an Educator in the Termite Industry and a Public Speaker on Wood Destroying Organisms. He is a Master Graduate from the Advanced Institute Of Pest Technology. He receives continuing education from AIPT. He is the Owner and Operator of Century Termite Control of California.
Mike Allen learned under:
Clarence Real - 45 year Pest Control Owner Operator, Fumigation Veternan
Bob Smith - 30 year Termite and Pest Control Operator, State Board Inspector and Termite Industry Software Designer
Johnny Reeves- Professor Advanced Institute of Pest Technology
My Story
Hello, my name is Mike Allen. I have worked in the termite industry in Southern California for 19 years and currently own Century Termite Control. I am the author of TOP SECRETS OF THE TERMITE INDUSTRY. But before I talk anymore about this I'd like to introduce myself and tell you a little about me and my family.
I am originally from the suburbs of Chicago. I have a younger brother, Spencer, who is a great guy and also in the termite industry. My parents moved us to an area outside Houston, Texas when I was 12 where I attended high school through my junior year. Then we relocated to Southern California about 14 miles from the Rose Bowl. I have now lived in Southern California for 21 years. I love it here!
In my junior year I met the love of my life, Jeni. We have been married for 18 years. Lauren, our 15 (going on 30) year old daughter is a Sophomore in high school. We live in a small community nestled in the foothills called Glendora, CA. We share our home with three loveable Labrador Retrievers.
Most of my wife's family worked in the Termite and Pest Control industry since the invention of baseball, it seems. I began working for her uncle's fumigation company immediately after high school. My wife's uncle, Clarence, knows everything you need to know about our industry. I say he is a Master Guru! He is a wonderful mentor and taught me everything I know. Boy, was that hard work back then! But I needed a job and he was willing to teach me. I attended the Advanced Institute of Pest Technology. I am a Master Graduate and became licensed.
After I had absorbed all that I could from him he said " Your ready, young gator!" He called all fumigators, gators. I opened my termite company and to date I have helped thousands of homeowners rid their homes of wood destroying invaders and solve their termite problems!
I really enjoy my hobbies. Which are first, inventing and experimenting. I have a few inventions for the termite industry that are currently in the works for patent rights. I love to cook, listen to blues, jazz and classic rock. I love red wine and long drives along the pacific coast stopping at all the wonderful cities along the way. Especially San Francisco. I enjoy golfing and boating. I like fast cars, hot rods and Harley's. I picked up playing the bass guitar about 10 years ago, not that great yet, but enjoy practicing. I love to travel and get away to places like Newport Beach, the river in Laughlin and the shows in Las Vegas!
I love meeting new people and talking one on one. I have had the pleasure on the job, of meeting or seeing some really great people. I will mention a few, I'm not bragging, just proud to say that I've met Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Eddie Murphy, The Black Eyed Peas & Fergie (my sister -in-law works with them since way back). Sean Penn and Madonna when they were still married. Oh, and my wife and I won a radio contest and flew private jet style with Duran Duran! I can't even tell you how many famous peoples' houses I've done termite work on, but living near Hollywood and Malibu there has been alot. None of these people are relevant though.
What is relevant is that I've been asked a thousand times " Can I treat termites myself?" and " Is there anything else besides toxic poisons to kill them?" Some people actually said they would rather leave the termites in their walls than expose their family to chemicals. I pondered over these questions for years and started experimenting with different items easy for homeowners to obtain. I used infested pieces of wood I removed from my clients' homes to try my remedies on. I came up with several recipes for homemade remedies that anyone could use themselves, in any situation, that kills on contact and keeps them away for good, GUARANTEED!
I also realized there was so much great stuff available at hardware stores across the nation for homeowners to use. Yet there is no explaination available explaining how to properly use these products and why they even need to use these products. Some of these products are dangerous if used incorrectly. There is a book available at hardware stores that explain how to complete other household repairs. They even have books that explain how to atract butterflys and birds. There is not one book out there that explains how to eradicate a termite problem safely and effectivly on your own! Until now!
To say the least I was amazed at the results of my tests. I did not share this information with any of my collegues. What I came up with was to combine all of my studies and add to them the best guarded sworn secrets of the termite industry. I decided I wanted to try and help every homeowner myself, to the best of my ability, with their termite problems. I want to show homeowners how to identify evidence and how they can treat the area themselves. I also want to be there for them when they have a unique situation that I can provide a solution for. I can show homeowners across the nation how they could possibly avoid ever signing a termite contract again. I wrote a manual with easy to comprehend instructions that the Do It Yourself homeowner can use.
I completed my research and allowed several homeowners to review my information and put it to the test. They were speechless, many of them wrote to me thanking me for saving them hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars. They became educated about their investment and how they could protect it from wood destroying invaders. I made them a professional to their own situations.
Picture this, a customer called me out to her home because she had a Subterranean Termite problem. It was a very established infestation in her dining room of all places. Mud viens were shooting straight out of her baseboards, weaving in and out of her decorative moulding, right next to where they eat!
I explained to her the extent of her termite problems and I also explained the method in which I would apply pesticide to eliminate the critters and keep them away. She looked me straight in the eye and said "unless there is another way besides pesticide, these termites will have to stay. I will not allow my family to be exposed to insecticides or pesticides of any kind. When I move I will take care of them then."
WOW! Now wait a minute here. I'm a termite guy, all I have been taught was how to use pesticides and poisons according to their manufacturers label. So of course my answer was. "Sorry, I can't help you."
I told her that her problem would continue to grow over that period, eventually making it all the way to her attic. I told her about the possible damage that could happen that could be very costly to repair when the time came. She did not care, it wasn't worth the risk to her.
That did it! That bugged me to no end. My customer would rather leave wood destroying insects in her wall than apply pesticides in the ground near her family. Why hadn't anyone looked into alternative all natural remedies to eradicate termites. There must be something. I thought about it. I started bringing infested wood removed from client properties to my shop for experiments. I wanted to see just exactly what would kill termites and more importantly, what would keep them away? I couldn't beleive all of the things that would kill a termite, including water. But those things wouldn't keep them away. What was the real trick here?
I realized that everyone involved with termite erradication was kept ignorant. The homeowner and ME, the termite guy! I had been programmed all these years to buy pesticides and convince my customers it was okay to apply it in their walls and in the earth. Although applied correctly according to the label, I was still applying poison!
I completely changed my way of thinking when it came to erradicating termites and I found what I was looking for. The two reasons termites exist and then figured in the common factors that promote healty termite infestations to begin in the first place.
It became appearant that I should share this information with homeowners across the nation. Since the customer I mentioned earlier, I have been approached countless times with the same exact question: "Is there anything I can do myself that is not a pesticide"?
I am happy to say YES! So now I have decided to release this information to the public for a limited time just to see what happens...
Gramma Bea and me My wife and me with Duran Duran
Thats me in the middle with
the rest of the men of the family