Dual HI Association Memberships

[Brian E. Kelly]

I have heard a rumor that INACHI will not allow it's members to hold a membership in other HI Associations.

Anyone else heard this?

[Billy Boerner]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

I have heard a rumor that INACHI will not allow it's members to hold a membership in other HI Associations.

Anyone else heard this?

Brian reread the other thread. ASHI is the only organization that I heard of.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by bboerner

Brian reread the other thread. ASHI is the only organization that I heard of.

Billy read this thread, WHAT DID YOU HEAR????

[ldapkus]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

I have heard a rumor that INACHI will not allow it's members to hold a membership in other HI Associations.

Anyone else heard this?

Yeah! Oh well!!

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by ldapkus

Yeah! Oh well!!

Kinda what I thought also Linas. But I am not sure what it is all about.

[Billy Boerner]

What I typed already on the thread above...

He emailed me for some reason. Why I don't know. According to Nick his lawyers have found a way to make all diploma mill inspectors (ASHI) choose between NACHI and ASHI. According to him after March 2010 he will no longer be accepting NACHI membership request from ASHI members.

Let me rephrase...

For all that are current members during his transition period he's not going to force you out, he simply won't renew you when the time comes if your a active ASHI member.

[Billy Boerner]

My take on it from the above thread as well...

His fight is you can simply join ASHI with nothing but application form and a Credit Card. There is no up front requirements to join. There is up front requirements to be called a certified home inspector with ASHI. You can't display logo's until you meet their requirments. The fight is however for example with me Google displays my phone number all over the place. I get lots of calls from people who never visits my site because of this. If I simply send in a check and application to ASHI and somebody ask are you a member of ASHI I can simply state "Yes I Am" without having any certification whatsoever. Now if they ask are you certified with ASHI different story, however, in my case most ask are you ASHI or a member of ASHI and that's Nicks fight. I can legally state yes and not give out any further information which leads to the diploma mill debate IMO.

[Vince Santos]

A wise man once told me that if anyone ever demands you to choose side or else, you should always take the or else.

[mnahrgang]

Originally Posted by vsantos

A wise man once told me that if anyone ever demands you to choose side or else, you should always take the or else.

On this I also agree. (In general principal at least.)

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

That is an unfortunate decision by NACHI, too bad that most of the Real Estate profession thinks we belong to NASHI.

[Scott Gilligan, CMI]

I'll believe it when I see it posted on the board by Nick himself. He may have sent a private emeail to Billy, but actually putting it out there for public viewing is something else. I was considering joining ASHI as an Associate member just to shut real estate agents up around here, but decided against it. I think excluding anyone for be a member of another association would bring up some pretty significant leagal issues that I am sure will be drug into court no matter what. I am a member of multiple environmental inspection groups, what is going to happen then? Is Nick going to kick out every member of ESA, IAQA, or AIHA?

[Brian E. Kelly]

Good points Scott, as far as I know this is not an official INACHI policy. But the discussion is interesting.

[Dale Duffy]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Good points Scott, as far as I know this is not an official INACHI policy. But the discussion is interesting.

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It's Gods new policy----

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by dduffy

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It's Gods new policy----

Have you been notified Dale?? And if so what does the policy say??
(is it written on Stone Tablets?)

[Paul Sabados]