The "Tennessee Home Inspection Licensing Act of 2005" requires all Tennessee home inspectors to be licensed by July 1st to inspect one to four unit residential properties, No exceptions , No grandfathering.
For those inspectors who do not meet the educational prelicense exemption, American Academy of Home Inspection, AAOHI, has structured an innovative AAOHI "60/30", 90-Hour Prelicense course. The first section of the course is 60 hours of classroom instruction taught over 6 days from Monday through Saturday covering the technical skills of home inspection taught by an approved, professional and experienced home inspector. In addition, AAOHI has included four on site home inspections in this 60 hour section. Then students complete the other 30 hours of the 90 hours by home study/book correspondence covering state law, marketing and business practices.