Kansas City radio station doing 26 week show with InterNACHI on licensing.

[Nick Gromicko]

InterNACHI is looking for a member who can do a radio show with a host on KCMO710 regarding home inspection licensing, how to recognize members of known diploma mill associations, how to find a qualified inspector, ancillary inspections, annual inspections, etc.

Anyone interested?

Speak up soon please.

[Joe Farsetta]

how to recognize members of known diploma mill associations

Nick,

Do we really need to go there?

This is your code name for ASHI.

Why not speak to the weakness of the bill and how it is actually anti-consumer.

Dont turn this into a "my association is better than your association" pi$$ing contest.

Back the claims with facts and figures.

Finish up with a sumptuous dessert of greed, control, and corruption between some realtors, builders, and (yes) inspectors.

Then name the lawmakers...

[Nick Gromicko]

Joe writes:

Back the claims with facts

Will do (easily).

Anyway, the guest is free to pick the topic he/she wants. We need some volunteers.

[Paul Sabados]

Anymore details such as Who is the Host and what day of the week.

26 weeks seems a little long for railing on this type of a subject or are they looking for an inspector call in show??

[Gary Farnsworth]

My brother-in-law owns a used appliance store. He used to do a radio show every Sunday morning on how to take care of appliances, what and what not to look for, etc. Lasted two months. 26 weeks if awful long. Perhaps being a sponsor of one. I did an inspection for one of the anouncers on 810 sports a few weeks ago. Nice guy.

[James H. Bushart]

Can the interviews be done by phone? I'm game.

[Nick Gromicko]

I got ahold of the host tonight. He said yes Jim, you can do it all by phone and if you want, you can pre-record so you don't have to give up every Saturday.

Email me and I'll get you his contact info.

The show is called Dollars and Homes.

[Dale Duffy]

Originally Posted by jbushart

Can the interviews be done by phone? I'm game.

Right on Jim....damn I wish there was a way to hear it here.....hell, I would schedule inspections around the talk show..!!!

[Carl A. Brown]

26 weeks done by phone 26 different inspectors?

Even Dale could do it from Az.

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Is this the right station, and if so, I believe you can listen in live.

http://www.710kcmo.com/listenlive.asp

Marcel

[James E. Braun, CMI]

Go gitém Jim.

[William J. Decker]

Originally Posted by cbrown1

26 weeks done by phone 26 different inspectors?

Even Dale could do it from Az.

THis would be a good idea. Get different perspectives from different states. Kansas is new to licensing and, as such, could benefit from the perspective of non-licensed states and licensed states.

Also, so another point, from the perspective of states that are (for lack of a better term) ASHI ruled v.s. states that do not (any more) suffer from "association wars" like Illinois.

It would also be useful to see the differences between states that have tradesman and contractor licensing v.s. those who don't.

I would be interested, if needed.

Hope this helps;

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

Questions & Thoughts -

Is the Radio Show host looking for a home inspector to do 1 show on a 26 week segment, OR is he looking for a home inspector to help host all 26 weeks??

About 12-14 years ago in KC the ASHI group looked into buying a 1 hr block of air time on AM talk radio on Sat AM's. The radio station wanted a 26 week committment. Everybody thought it was a great idea, but it got real hard to get guys to commit to every Sat at a certain time - Seems like kids, family, holidays, illness or ??? kept coming up on that long a run.

Theirs was a call-in talk show and sometimes there was no callers - so we had to have back-up stuff, so the host could just talk AND it needed to be stuff the average listener was interested in - NOT things like how many neutral wires can go under a lug on a sub-panel buss bar, etc.

[James E. Braun, CMI]

I think if a home inspector cannot do it one week, it would not be hard to find another to step in. I suggest Dan to be the first backup. I would think whoever steps in could chose his topic, a subject that he knows forewords and backwards.
The NACHI library is full of subject matter, so finding something to talk about for 26 weeks should not be a problem..

[James H. Bushart]

Originally Posted by gromicko

I got ahold of the host tonight. He said yes Jim, you can do it all by phone and if you want, you can pre-record so you don't have to give up every Saturday.

Email me and I'll get you his contact info.

The show is called Dollars and Homes.

Cool. You have mail.