What is the fair thing to do for the next several Commercial Inspection courses?

[wsiegel]

Do the math. Florida has over 1400 NACHI inspecctors, which is one tenth of the total membership. There should be one in north Florida and one in South Florida.

[Gary T. Heller]

Phoenix is a great place to meet in the winter months and we could use some training out here.

[Bruce M. Graham, III]

Gary,
I hear you guys have some golf courses too.

[Mark R. Long]

Start with the states/areas with the most concentration of members and move on from there. Don't have the stats in front of me, but I believe it would be Florida, then Pennsylvania, etc.

[kmcmahon]

A while ago I visited my local county business council building and they had a room for video conferencing for education. The room held about 30-40 people. The instructor was in a distant location broadcast his "interactive" course across the country to other cities that also have these facilities.

I saw this as a excellent way to inexpensively hold continuing education seminars to many people at one time with minimal overhead and travel expenses for the instructor and the participants.

These video conference centers I'm sure are located only short distances from NACHI chapters around the country...all it needs is a little organizing with the chapter heads. National picks a date and time and the chapter presidents secure the location and charge the appropriate fees to pay for the room and also help pay for the instructor.

I brought this idea up to a member here that had started a home inspector training school or online school and he liked the idea, but I guess the business failed before it got off the ground.

I also brought it up to our state HI organization, but they didn't want to hear it because they said it would deter people from attending their annual continuing education conference and thus a loss of revenue.

Anyway, it's just a thought.

[Nick Gromicko]

NH has to be at the top of the list because of the NACHI Bill which licenses commercial inspectors we have in NH. But other than NH, how do we pick them? Maybe by making a poll so members can declare their interest and then hit the high-interest cities first?

[Joe Farsetta]

I believe the first thing NACHI needs to do is to develop and ratify its own Commercial version of our SOP. It needs to be meaningful, and although ASTM has 2810-01 for a standard, that standard is pretty much meaningless.

ESOP will start development of a more meanngful standard. It will probably be based, at least in part, on 2810, but will bring the SOP to a more meaningful level.

As the comercial courses you are taking revolve arounf the 2810 standard, and that inspectors attending, we assume, already know how to inspect a building, the training will still be quite meaningful to you all.

I say to go for it.

[William Warner]

Originally Posted by ecrofutt

Cincinatti is a good central hub for this area.

Pulls in Kentucky, West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, etc

Agreed.

[Keith R. Braun]

Buffalo, New York would be a great location as it would draw Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Binghampton, N.Y. as well as New England states and Pennsylvania, Ohio. And let's not forget about our neighbors to the north who would cross the border in droves, eh?

[Keith R. Braun]

Not to mention a Sabres-Maple Leafs game.

[wforsyth]

Originally Posted by gheller

Phoenix is a great place to meet in the winter months and we could use some training out here.

Phoenix is a great idea!

I think we also mentioned several places in Florida, but maybe missed North Florida.

[edavis1]

Branson missouri offers plenty to see and do...The new Branson Landing area has convention center /large hotel opening soon .Bass Pro has a store in the same area all on the lake front.Branson commercial inspection business has to be in demand.It seems the motels and theaters are buying and selling left and right.Spring in the Ozarks is beautiful!

[Kenneth E. Sitzes]

What about Illinois we have ITA school here.

Pulls in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, Wisconsin etc

[whandley]

Any chance Southern California could benefit from any of the NACHI programs. I know we've only got 23 million people living below the grape vine and represent the 3rd largest state wide membership, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Los Angeles should be a consideration. It's a 1 hour drive from OC, the Valley and Valencia, 1.5 hours from Ventura and the Inland Empire, two hours from San Diego, Bakersfield and the high desert. Los Angeles would provide daily driving access to maybe 300-400 members and LAX for air access to the balance of the West Coast membership. Cost might be something like you offered Colorado.

[Scott K. Harris]

The fair thing would be to base it upon the geogrphical concentration of members. The practicle thing would be to base on the geographical concentration of members who commit to training.