Licensed inspector ad campaign.

[Michael R. Boyett]

Originally Posted by jbushart

Exactly...and Texas should serve as a warning to those unlicensed states who are unprepared to oppose a licensing effort. This is the end result of real estate commission control over the home inspection industry.

Whatever your thoughts are regarding any deficencies in the Texas HI licensing model are the result of Texas inspectors doing unto others...has little, if any, correlation to the real estate commission. Case in point is the new SOP....absolutly zero input from TREC and 100% the result of 6 inspectors. I do agree that we would be better served if our oversight were in another section of the government like TDL (Texas Dept of Licensing).

[jvogan]

So is NACHI now taking a public, anti-licensing position?

[Michael R. Boyett]

Jeff....which way is the wind blowing tonite?

[John McKenna]

Training and education makes better inspectors who have good work ethics.
In Texas, they are closer to this goal than others. IMHO.

The most sucessful inspectors are good marketers. Licensing does not affect
them one way or another.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Are thes adds going on the NACHI race car, or are they being delivered in the NACHI newspaper to realtors all over the country?

[Christopher Currins]

Originally Posted by jbushart

I agree with Nick.

This campaign forces you to ask the question as to how the public...on the first day of licensing in (God forbid) Missouri...a consumer is to be able to look at the brand new bicycle (license) and be able to tell the difference between a 20+ year Dan Bowers and Wendy with her new flashlight.

It does dramatize the "dumbing down" effect that licensing has.

Isn't this the same thing FindAnInspector does? Makes all "Certified" inspectors equal. When we all know they're not.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Business 101, talk up your strong points, and do not denigrate your competition.

[James H. Bushart]

Originally Posted by ccurrins

Isn't this the same thing FindAnInspector does? Makes all "Certified" inspectors equal. When we all know they're not.

No more so than a telephone directory.

Once contacted, the prudent inspector immediately begins to educate the person on the other end of the phone of the differences between inspectors and lays the groundwork for justifying his higher fee. Right?

So does this campaign.

When a license itself, in the mind of the consumer, comes to represent an acceptable level of skill and competency, then the next step is to find the licensed guy with the lowest fee. If this campaign does nothing else but to convey to the public that the license (like a building code) simply represents what that state has determined to be the minimum basic standard by which one can legally work in the field....we have room to build.

[Nick Gromicko]

Jim correctly writes:

I don't see it as much as belittling inspectors...as it is in belittling a concept; that being that a license is an assurance of quality.

[Christopher Currins]

Originally Posted by jbushart

No more so than a telephone directory.

Once contacted, the prudent inspector immediately begins to educate the person on the other end of the phone of the differences between inspectors and lays the groundwork for justifying his higher fee. Right?

So does this campaign.

So it really does not matter if he is licensed or certified.

[John McKenna]

Originally Posted by gromicko

Jim correctly writes:

POLL:

How many want my son to inspect your house...

1- before he does any ride along training?
2- after he does 200 ride alongs with an approved trainer,
plus hundreds of hours of education...? (Texas requirement)

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by gromicko

Jim correctly writes:
Jim correctly writes: Quote:
I don't see it as much as belittling inspectors...as it is in belittling a concept; that being that a license is an assurance of quality.

Taking that "concept" to it's logical conclusion, then, certified inspectors might as well be on a bycicle too.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by jmckenna1

POLL:

How many want my son to inspect your house...

1- before he does any ride along training?
2- after he does 200 ride alongs with an approved trainer? (Texas requirement)

Is your son a Texican John?

[Nick Gromicko]

I don't see how members from Arizona, a licensed state that has ZERO continuing education requirements, can possibly complain about this ad.

Licensing tricks consumers into thinking that all licensed inspectors, being equally licensed, are equal. And so in having been tricked by their elected officials into thinking they are comparing apples to apples... the consumer then goes price shopping.

[Michael R. Boyett]

Originally Posted by jonofrey

The answer is no, but you knew that already.

Interestingly, I do have empirical data that disputes that. To be more precise the source of my data, the last nationwide ASHI inspection industry analysis, I loaned to an INACHI employee in Colo for some other use. He still has it. It showed that my fee structure, which is competitive in my market, to be slightly higher than the national average.