Members of the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI) are the most educated and best-trained inspectors in the world, and InterNACHI is committed to keeping it that way.  Toward that end, InterNACHI has taken steps to encourage its members' pursuit and maintenance of inspection excellence, and we have accomplished this without additional charge to members.  We believe that fees, like taxes, deter professional development, and that the best way to encourage the continuing education of our membership is by supporting variety, accessibility and affordability in educational options.

 

            InterNACHI members start off by fulfilling certain requirements before they can even apply for membership.  They have access to the InterNACHI University, which is free.  InterNACHI’s Ethics Obstacle Course is free and open to all.  InterNACHI’s Photo Web Gallery of Defects is the largest in the world and is free and open to all.  InterNACHI’s Online Visual Aid Frames Library is the largest in the world and is free and open to all.  InterNACHI’s Online Exam Preparation Tool, with a pool of more than 2,500 multiple-choice questions and answers is the largest in the world, and free.  InterNACHI’s online searchable Inspector Glossary is the largest in the world and is free and open to all.  InterNACHI’s Standards of Practice quiz, which reveals where an inspector may be veering off course, is self-evaluating and is free and open to all.  InterNACHI's online Continuing Education is free.  InterNACHI's 25 Standards course is free. 

 

            InterNACHI's online Roofing Inspection course is free.  InterNACHI's online Electrical Inspection course is free.  InterNACHI's Inspecting Foundation Walls and Piers course is free.  InterNACHI's online Structural Inspection course is free.  InterNACHI's online Commercial Inspection course is free.  InterNACHI's Radon Measurement Service Provider course is s free.  InterNACHI's Deck Inspections course is free.  InterNACHI's Vermiculite Insulation mini-course is free.  InterNACHI's TPR Valve Discharge mini-course is free.  InterNACHI's Emergency Egress course is free.  InterNACHI's Safe Practices for the Home Inspector course is free.  InterNACHI' Advanced Residential Code Inspection Exam Prep Tool is free.  InterNACHI's Commercial Property Code Inspection Exam Prep Tool is free.  InterNACHI's Plumbing Inspection course is free.  InterNACHI's Energy Auditor course is free.  InterNACHI's Polybutylene Plumbing course is free.  InterNACHI's Commercial Standards of Practice course is free.  InterNACHI's Green Building course is free.  InterNACHI's Septic Inspection course is free.  InterNACHI's Log Home course is free.   Our online, comprehensive Moisture Intrusion Inspection course is free.  InterNACHI's WDO course is free.  InterNACHI’s online Inspector Examination, with over a trillion different versions, taken over 385,000 times, and which generates a custom inspector-weakness pie chart upon completion, is graded instantly, is open to all, and is free.  InterNACHI’s one-day HVAC, Mold Inspection and Electrical Inspection seminars are open to all and free to members.  InterNACHI, far more than any other source, provides educational events around the world, which are free and open to all. 

 

            InterNACHI refuses paid advertisements in order to enhance trust in our information.  InterNACHI's lending library is free.  InterNACHI’s interactive photo message board, with over 450,000 topics, is the industry’s largest and most popular, very educational, and is free and open to all.  InterNACHI's message board protects free speech so that visitors can determine the truth.  InterNACHI operates the Consumer Information Center.  InterNACHI publishes What's New, an inspection industry update, online, open to all, and free.  InterNACHI’s half-day mock inspections of actual homes provide true hands-on training and are free.  InterNACHI’s local chapter meetings typically present technical speakers, are open to all, and free.  InterNACHI provides report review services for free.  InterNACHI’s annual convention is very educational, with three days of six continuous running classes, and are all free.  InterNACHI's mock, student, parallel, and ride-along reporting forms are free.  InterNACHI operates a mobile classroom which travels across North America, providing education to home inspectors for free.  InterNACHI permits all outside/for-profit Continuing Education providers to advertise their courses to our members on InterNACHI’s websites for free.  InterNACHI maintains a Question of the Day thread, open-to-all, and free.  InterNACHI negotiates member discounts on nearly every Continuing Education provider’s courses.  InterNACHI’s meetings distribute a wide variety of educational literature to all for free.  InterNACHI’s staff, committee members, chapter leaders, veteran members, special-expertise members, and advisory boards are constantly helping members one-on-one for free.  InterNACHI members typically provide fellow members with free ride-alongs on actual inspections for free.  Over the years, InterNACHI has arranged for third-party providers to offer our members' online training for free.  InterNACHI employs some of the world’s leading trainers and makes them available to members for free.  InterNACHI does not charge for or unduly withhold approval of any organization’s Continuing Education courses, even those offered by other inspection associations. 

 

            InterNACHI’s 235,000+ page website is, itself, very educational.  InterNACHI opened the first of six actual House of Horrors in December of 2005 which provides real, hands-on training and is due to release a virtual House of Horrors, an online Wood-Destroying Organism course, and an occupant hazard-recognition primer, and What's Wrong Here? panels -- all very educational and all free.  InterNACHI's Online Inspector Examination's main purpose, besides testing competence, is to alert members to their weaknesses.  The same is true for InterNACHI's Code of Ethics obstacle course, designed to alert members to possible infractions.  And the same is true for InterNACHI's Standards of Practice quiz, designed to alert members to areas they are over- and/or under-inspecting.  All three are pre-application requirements and all are free.  InterNACHI's inspection article library is free.  InNACHI.TV is free.  InterNACHI's inspection graphics gallery is free.  InterNACHI even has online educational inspection-related crossword puzzles, open to all and free, of course.

 

            A variety of accessible and affordable educational options encourage and enhance the professional development of all our members, but our most precious educational tool is our spirit of camaraderie.  InterNACHI members continue to pursue, achieve and maintain inspection excellence in an atmosphere of members helping fellow members.  Please join us in this spirit.

 

 

            Nick Gromicko, Founder

 

www.nachi.org/education.htm

 

 

InterNACHI is also the world's largest provider and host of inspection-related events:  http://www.nachi.org/events.htm

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