Please join me in welcoming former member Jim Bushart back as a member of InterNACHI.

[Joseph Burkeson, CMI]

Originally Posted by jmckenna1

Weak laws produce weak results. Stronger and better laws
can produce good results.

Oh, piffle, it all first comes down to securing your market against your competition and you know it, everything else is like pissing in a dark suit, it feels good and no one else really notices.

[James H. Bushart]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Jim, shouldn't you have some mention of INACHI on your web page?

It would not look good if you had to report yourself to yourself.

I have to go back and re-build, Brian. Two days ago, some guy on this board was giving me guff for HAVING iNACHI mentioned on my web page.

[John McKenna]

Originally Posted by jburkeson1

Oh, piffle, it all first comes down to securing your market against your competition and you know it, everything else is like pissing in a dark suit, it feels good and no one else really notices.

Piffle? Learn something new every day.!

[James H. Bushart]

Originally Posted by wdecker

If you had the same kind of licensing as we do, in Illinois, couldn't you live with that?

Nope. Obviously, neither could 2/3 of those who were licensed last year in Illinois.

[William J. Decker]

Originally Posted by jbushart

Nope. Obviously, neither could 2/3 of those who were licensed last year in Illinois.

And, I would say, living in that state, that the problem wasn't with licenseing.

It was the (a little bit more) than 2/3rds (38% renewed) who couldn't cut it. Almost all of them were only one license term isnepctors (2 years or less), part-timers and, from my experience in trying to help a number of them, just guys who didn't have what it takes. Whiners. Guys who, after earning their license, just sat back and waited for the phone to ring, who didn't know how to run a business, some were 45 minute, issue a checklist report, on-site, for a $150 inspection that did not meet the state standards. No web site, no business plan and they were not committed.

You blame licensing. I blame the licensee.

You, Jim, are a good and professional inspector. You could, easily, do better than these guys. You work at it. These guys just sit back and expect the world to come to tyheir door. Then, when they fail, they blame everyone but themselves.

You are not that kind of man, Jim. You work at it and take your profession seriously.

Get my point?