Commercial & Property Management
Gopher Elimination
HOAs, land developers, property management, golf courses, airports, schools, shopping centers. We eliminate your gopher population — and train your staff to keep it that way. Dead gophers. Confirmed. Every time.
Land Developers
Clear the Property Before You Build
Before you break ground, have The Gopher Getters come in and clear the pocket gopher population. It protects your relationship with neighboring properties, protects your crew during construction, and sets the new community up to stay gopher-free. Gopher tunnels discovered after construction begins — or after the first homeowners move in — are exponentially more expensive to address than a pre-construction clearance.
Our methods are unlike any other. Five generations of expertise, over 100 years of family trapping history, done correctly every single time. We show you actual dead gophers. Dead gophers don't come back, don't breed, don't chew through your new irrigation lines, and don't tunnel under the foundation you just poured.
Commercial Properties & Property Management
Your Liability Starts Underground
If you have people on your property — customers, tenants, employees, the general public — a pocket gopher infestation is not a landscaping inconvenience. It is a documented liability hazard. Stepping into a collapsed gopher tunnel can break bones. Horses and livestock have been euthanized after stepping through tunnel ceilings. Lawns, athletic fields, walkways, and parking lot perimeters that appear solid may have tunnel networks within six inches of the surface.
If you know you have an active infestation and have not addressed it, you have a known hazard on your property. Document your remediation — starting with calling us.
If your company already has its own maintenance department, why are you paying a pest control company to come out month after month, applying products that will never eliminate your gopher population? Train your people once, with PRO-CERT certification, and eliminate the ongoing expense entirely.
We don't control like pest control. We kill them. Every gopher we trap is confirmed dead — photographed, documented, and reported. No other company offers a written guarantee for actual dead gophers. Ask any competitor to show you a body. The conversation ends there.
⚠ Legal Liability Warning
Property owners and facility managers carry civil liability for injuries caused by known hazards. An active, unaddressed pocket gopher infestation on a commercial property — one you've documented but not remediated — is a known hazard. Golf courses, HOAs, schools, parks, cemeteries, and commercial properties throughout Arizona have faced injury claims directly linked to gopher tunnel collapse.
PRO-CERT Staff Training
Train Your Team. Eliminate the Ongoing Cost.
When we certify your maintenance staff through PRO-CERT training, your company gains permanent in-house capability. One-time investment. Ongoing results. No more monthly pest control invoices for products that don't work.
When We Train Your Staff, Your Company Will:
- Never hire a pest control company for gophers again
- Never pay for useless baits, poisons, or gas products
- See immediate, confirmed results with dead gophers
- Hold the right to train future employees after certification
- Stop landscaping and irrigation damage immediately
- Eliminate costly repairs to irrigation systems
- Stop water loss, erosion, and foundation damage progression
- Eliminate legal liability from gopher-related injuries
- Purchase equipment at deep discounts unavailable to the public
- Have full documentation of every kill for liability records
Payment plans available. Don't let budget be the reason you don't solve this permanently. Contact us and we will work with you.
Our Commitment
What We Guarantee
We will show you a dead gopher — in person, by photo, or by video — for every single trap we pull. No dead gopher means no solved problem. That is our standard and it has never changed in 60 years.
We provide a written guarantee on every commercial service engagement. Please provide us with the full property acreage, the duration of known gopher activity, the extent of current damage, and whether you are interested in PRO-CERT training for your maintenance team. We will come back to you with an honest assessment and a fair price.
We discount for those who serve our country, first responders, educators, widows and widowers. For large infested properties, we ask for your patience and full cooperation — this is hard physical work in extreme Arizona heat, and we earn every penny. We have never charged what we should.
To request a commercial service quote: Contact our office with property acreage, duration of activity, damage details, and training interest. We respond within minutes by text, faster than any competitor. Text 480-489-1729 or use the contact form.
Property Managers & Rental Properties
Your Tenants, Your Liability
If you manage rental properties, the gopher problem on your grounds is not the tenant's problem — it is yours. Property managers who ignore active infestations face exposure on multiple fronts simultaneously:
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Tenant & Pet Injuries
Children and pets bitten by cornered gophers. Adults with broken ankles from tunnel collapse. Every one of these is a documented liability event on your property.
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Pool Damage
Gophers tunnel under pool walls, removing the soil that holds the structure in place. Walls crack. Pools fail. Pool replacement in Arizona can exceed $50,000. Your insurance may not cover it if you had prior knowledge of the infestation.
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Hillside Properties & Water Damage
If your property is on a slope and a tenant — or anyone else — attempts to flush gophers with water, the consequences fall on you. Flooding gopher tunnels collapses the structural lining of every tunnel on the property, diverting water into neighboring foundations. Insurance does not cover flooding caused by deliberate water introduction into a known tunnel system. The tenant won't know that. You need to.
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Foundation & Structural Damage
Gophers follow sewer lines into structures. Generations breed inside walls. Urine saturates framing. By the time the smell appears, the remediation cost is catastrophic. Proactive elimination is a fraction of the repair bill.
The fastest call you can make: Text us the address. We can tell you over the phone what we're likely dealing with based on the neighborhood, proximity to retention areas, satellite imagery, and property type. Free consultation. If you want a written inspection report, we do those too.
Real Estate Agents, Brokers & Sellers
Non-Disclosure Is Not a Strategy. It's a Liability.
There are realtors in this state actively advising sellers to cover up active gopher infestations — laying fresh granite over mounds, sledgehammering rocks into tunnel openings, heavily watering stressed landscaping to make it look healthy for showings. This is not a harmless workaround. Arizona has mandatory seller disclosure laws. Knowingly concealing a material defect — and pocket gopher damage to foundations, irrigation, pools, and structural framing is absolutely a material defect — can cost a real estate licensee their license, expose a seller to damages claims, and result in costly litigation.
Here is what realtors and sellers need to understand about gopher-stressed properties: everything looks green and healthy when the irrigation is running. The moment the new owners take possession and transition the watering schedule, stressed and root-damaged plants begin dying immediately. Roots chewed for years before the sale can't sustain themselves once irrigation pressure changes. The new owners move in, the yard dies within weeks, and they start pulling back the granite — and finding what was underneath it.
⚠ Arizona Seller Disclosure — What You Are Required to Disclose
Arizona requires sellers to disclose known material defects. Pocket gopher damage to foundations, pools, irrigation systems, structural framing, and landscaping qualifies. Active infestation at the time of sale qualifies. Attempts to conceal the condition — covering mounds, filling tunnel entrances, masking symptoms — can be characterized as fraudulent concealment. The clock on a buyer's disclosure claim begins at discovery, not at closing. Do not put your license or your equity at risk over a gopher problem you could have addressed before listing.
Documented Case Study — Horse Property
Multimillion Dollar Sale — Undisclosed Active Infestation
A multimillion dollar horse property was sold without disclosure of an active pocket gopher infestation. The seller had previously engaged The Gopher Getters for service — work that was completed and documented — but chose not to pay and retained equipment belonging to this company. When the property sold, the buyers contacted us. We had full photographic and video documentation of the infestation's extent at the time of service, prior to the sale. The buyers had legal standing to pursue the seller for remediation costs, irrigation damage, structural repairs, and the full expense of proper elimination — all of which could have been resolved before listing for a fraction of the post-sale cost.
Documentation of pre-sale conditions is available to buyers who contact us regarding properties we have previously serviced.
Documented Case Study — Residential Concealment
Seller Concealment — Foundation Damage, Destroyed Irrigation, Structural Den
A property within two blocks of our location was listed for sale. From satellite imagery and daily observation, the infestation was clearly visible — gophers had traveled from a retention area, crossed under the road at approximately 8 feet depth, followed water and electrical lines, and established a large den under the front porch. Tunnels had extended beneath the foundation and into adjoining properties. We contacted the listing agent directly and offered our services. The condition was not disclosed to the buyers, who relocated from California.
After the buyers moved in, we introduced ourselves. The seller had sledgehammered rocks into every visible tunnel entrance — a truckload of material — before listing. The buyers had been digging rocks out themselves. Camera inspection revealed a large void chipped from underneath the foundation slab. The irrigation system was destroyed. Multiple trees that appeared healthy during the sale were dead within weeks of the owners taking possession. The roots had been consumed for years before closing.
The buyers had full legal recourse. Arizona's disclosure statutes provided a clear path to recovering remediation costs, irrigation replacement, tree replacement, and structural repair from the seller. The concealment was not subtle — it was documented by physical evidence left on the property.
To buyers: If you have moved into a property and discovered gopher activity — especially if you notice fresh granite over disturbed soil, rocks stuffed into ground openings, or landscaping that dies quickly after you stop watering — contact us immediately. We can inspect, document, and help you understand your legal options before your disclosure window closes. Arizona's clock starts at discovery. Don't wait.
Gopher Inspections — Buyers, Sellers & Attorneys
We Do Inspections. No One Else Does.
Standard home inspectors in Arizona are not permitted to move furniture, bushes, or soil mounds. They cannot probe tunnels. They cannot assess below-grade gopher damage. When a buyer asks their inspector about gopher activity, the inspector is required to direct them to a specialist — but the regulatory system has deliberately excluded us from the licensed inspection category. The state does not want buyers to know what's under the ground.
We inspect anyway, because we are the only people who actually know what to look for. We can tell you over the phone whether a property is likely to have subsurface gopher activity based on address, neighborhood, proximity to retention areas, canal easements, and satellite imagery. For a full written inspection report — including on-site ground assessment, camera work, tunnel mapping, damage documentation, and a written summary suitable for legal proceedings — contact us directly.
We have served as expert witnesses on gopher-related property damage cases. Our documentation has been used in Arizona civil proceedings. If you are an attorney handling a real estate disclosure dispute, a property damage claim, or a personal injury matter involving gopher tunnel collapse, we can provide forensic inspection services and expert testimony.
Airports & Aviation Facilities
Runway Safety Is a Gopher Problem
Pocket gophers tunneling beneath tarmac, taxiways, and runway surfaces remove the soil that supports the pavement. As that soil is displaced, the ground becomes honeycombed. Any weight on the surface — aircraft, ground vehicles, fuel trucks — creates stress over hollow voids. Pavement cracks. Eventually it fails. The satellite imagery of active runways with gopher populations clearly shows the pattern: surface cracking that traces the exact path of the tunnel system below.
Beyond structural risk, an active gopher population on airport grounds attracts a predator chain you absolutely do not want near aircraft operations. Coyotes, badgers, skunks, and predatory birds — hawks, owls, and eagles — follow gopher populations. These are exactly the species responsible for bird strikes and runway wildlife incidents. Eliminating the gopher population removes the food source that draws them in.
Airport staff training: Most airports already have dedicated grounds maintenance crews. We come on-site and provide full PRO-CERT training in approximately five days. Your staff leaves fully certified and capable of managing the population permanently — no ongoing vendor contracts, no recurring pest control invoices. One investment. Permanent capability. Contact us for a training quote specific to your facility acreage and crew size.