Missouri Home Inspector Bill HB-1189

[David Moriconi]

Originally Posted by gfarnsworth

Dan, that is the issue. Special interest groups have contributed to the campaign funds of all of the lawmakers in Missouri and Kansas for years. It is pay up time. The consumers of both states will lose. We, as inspectors here in KC, will have to have seperate insurance policies, educational requirements, even use and create seperate inspection forms/procedures for both states. The expense to the consumer, and us, will most likely be cost prohibitive. Therefore, agents will be doing inspections during the Tuesday tours. One will check sinks, another, the electric, another the roof, etc. and leave results on the kitchen counters. Free inspections. Goodbye to all associations, and inspectors, in both states. The only ones that will survive will be the ones that will be training these agents. I hope they will be sleeping at night.

Gary so is this what you found out in your meeting last week, each realtor will inspect 1 02 2 items in the house and leave a report? I feel sorry for the stupid buyer that accepts this kind of inspection. Just wait till the broker or owner of the company gets his happy letter from a lawyer.

[David Moriconi]

Jim some how you better unite MAREI, Larry Sparks special group and whom ever under one common fight

[James H. Bushart]

Originally Posted by dmoriconi

Jim some how you better unite MAREI, Larry Sparks special group and whom ever under one common fight

Larry Sparks has been working closely with TAMHI but we never hear anything about MAREI. Is it still active? I know its president has had personal issues and has not been able to participate in very much.

[James E. Braun, CMI]

I wondered what happen to MAREI. Sorry to hear that about Mark. I meet him a few times and he seems like a great guy. I think I am still a member of MAREI but I have never heard anything from them in about a year except for a letter against the Kansas bill. It would be great if MAREI and TAMHI could reach a common ground. The reason TAMHI was formed, from what I understand, was because some Missouri inspectors got tried of the same old thing from MAREI, which was tried in Kansas, that does not appear to be working. I am all for uniting, just we need to establish a plan together and do it. TAMHI has a good plan. What about MAREI?

[James E. Braun, CMI]

Originally Posted by dmoriconi

James i know Gary, he has been fighting his *** off in Kansas to stop things, he may be tired!!!and Pissed!!!!

I know Gary has worked is butt off. I consider Gary a brotheren to our cause. I believe he knows that, and that is the reason why I talk to him that way. He can not let this get him down because the opposition picks up on that kinda stuff. If inspectors stick together we can stop this monster that is stumping through Kansas.

[David Moriconi]

I have a question why does Nick allow these discussion in the open forum and does not put this in the Members only f orum

[Gary Farnsworth]

Check out the New Hampshire post/thread. There is no way that any inspector could write 30 pages of technical rules and regulations for that state, even before their laws where passed. Some enity, attorney, or special interest group, or even, yes I will say it, ASHI, had these rules and laws ready to go at a moments notice. And, in every state. This a virus in the largest sense. And, with the RE filling the coffers of every state lawmaker over time, all should be investigated by the highest state and federal agency. There are several lawmakers throughout the U.S. in every state who are also real estate agents, and voting laws into play to affect every home inspector and every home buyer in the U.S. I have stirred up so much s**t that I expect to be black-balled, if I have not already. I guess I have been listening to too much Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Caution should be used by any inspector who is a board member, or involved with these un-needed state laws. People in all facets of life are finally standing up for what is right for the people, not for the corrupt.