Any regulation at all

[Steven C. Meyer]

Then, what are the requirements to be a calif. inspector???

Department of licensing says NONE??

[Justin Watts]

CREIA CHARGES OVER $700 or more to join there Association........... for what???? that's why I never joined them. And what a rip off.... NACHI has so much more resources.. I just wish we could get some national commercials going like Century 21, Tarbell, etc. It would be very cool to see NACHI advertised on major cable channels, news networks, etc.


http://www.americandreamhomeinspection.net

[Ben J. Gromicko]

Originally Posted by jwatts1

CREIA CHARGES OVER $700 or more to join there Association........... for what???? that's why I never joined them. And what a rip off.... NACHI has so much more resources.. I just wish we could get some national commercials going like Century 21, Tarbell, etc. It would be very cool to see NACHI advertised on major cable channels, news networks, etc.


http://www.americandreamhomeinspection.net

funny you say that
i know that nick's been working on something like that... commercials on cable... inspectors.... internachi... yada... yada...

[rbibler]

He Ben Most of the agents I work with are up on what an inspection is. They read these reports front to back. You may want to hit the main 3 parts of an inspection.

1. The SOP. and just what it is.
2. The SOP. and its application.
3. The SOP. and the Report.

I think this is the one part of a HI That 99% are missing. They understand we are inspecting a home but the Why and What for is the one area they do not understand. Heck a lot of home inspectors do not understand the SOP. I for one go way beyond the SOP in my reports. but thats me. Then I see other inspectors that are like the master of irreducible minimums. like a 15 pae report with only standard information.

Hope this helps.

Best

Ron

[Rick Anderson]

In Alberta,I am a little concerned myself, for the Alberta Government to appoint a group that receives any financial gain (cost of Inspection) of any sort is a concern to me and others, I can remember many trades that in the past that used the grandfather clause in which no member that was grand fathered ever gained from that "in any way" other then being a good member of that organized/professional group. I don't know the CMI/RHI person, have they ever had a claim or had been sued. The speed of all this is a real concern to many across Canada and the States. BC had three years, we were notified in May 12,2011 and at that the start date was March 31,2011 in which we had to comply by September 1.2011. and then if needed only given a two year extension ? to become a CMI or a RHI you must be in the business for no less then three years? this is an unachievable goal. Between me and another owner of Home Inspection company's we have had 9 company's call and asked if we were willing to buy them out. Let me make this very clear to all, I have no problem assisting to make this a better and more respectable field of Inspection as long as it is clear all around and not so shady, I am even being asked through customers about this. A statement was made that in a 4 and a half year length of time with 250 Inspectors only 18 complaints were made to service Alberta, so even at that rate of one inspection per day per inspector that comes out to 1,642 inspections, this hardly warrants such a stern crack down on this industry in such a harsh manner. Why so fast? why was the first action not taken to make sure all in the field had insurance and a business license, then go after the bad guys that are causing errors and grief to this industry. This looks very one sided to all and sneaky. This is just my opinion.
AND yes "congrats" to those who passed your peer inspection, its just to bad you had to.