New Mexico to license home inspectors?

[Gary Farnsworth]

It is truly amazing that the people who do want licensing, and will do anything to be exempt from the rules and laws, all want to be on committees.

Lawmakers do not realize that they want to be involved for a reason: to be exempt. Here in Kansas, appraisers, real estate agents, engineers, insurance agents, home builders, et. al., are exempt from rules, regulations, insurance and educational requirements.

All you have to do is note that most all senators and congressmen and women in Washington DC all do not want the health care that was passed and voted on by themselves. Same comes from many other laws, national issues, and home inspections. Washington has set the precedent, and the states are following.

All you can do is vote these people out of office, like we did in Kansas. Or pressure the senators so they resign, like some did. Realize that the only true job of any lawmaker or politician is to get re-elected. The only job.

[William A. Vigneau]

Dale, now that the new legislative session is open, what is the status or findings of the working group that was established last year? Are we any closer to requiring licensing of NM home inspectors?

[Gary Farnsworth]

I hope all lawmakers in New Mexico reads the Missouri thread on this same InterNACHI message board section; and vice versa.

Our industry overall is a mess, with all most state home inspection licensing laws all being different. If a home inspector smoozes with the agents, writes soft reports according the state "SOP's", those inspectors are succeeding. If the inspector is honest, professional, writes complete in-depth reports all to help the client understand what they are buying, they are struggling. States that have cities along state line boundries allow home buyers to become even more confused as to how the inspector should perform the home inspection.

As in government, they have it all backwards. And they wonder why the economy is the way it is, and home sales are in the sewer.

Edit.

Most agent associations, and other lobbyist-committees, will sell the lawmakers anything that benefits themselves, not the consumers. That is what most any association does: sell. Most do not care about the end result. Just so that commissions keep coming in, and the agents keep paying that membership fee to these associations. Sounds kind-of-like a union.

Politicans must serve the public. That is what they are elected to do. Nowdays, most are not doing that, and they wonder why they have to work so hard at getting re-elected.

Can you imagine the home buyers that would flock to real estate offices to buy a home, if those offices would always recommended a Certified Master InspectorTM? Then, why don't they? Most agents want the bare minimum home inspector, so as not to alarm the home buyer; and they want it to become legal to do so.