I am pleased to announce that FREA’s Communicator Magazine is running a 2 page spread on the InterNACHI House of Horrors (hands-on inspector training facility) this month. The magazine gets shipped out to the inspection, appraisal, real estate and lending industry beginning this week with a circulation of 140,000. See pages 37 & 37 when you get your copy.
Much thanks goes to long time NACHI member Bob Brown for his work on the House of Horrors project.
This issue is starting to sound like a Collector’s Edition!
Seriously, please send me one Nick. I don’t think I will have a way to get one otherwise. 
Nick, send one up this way when you have a chance. 
They should be in the mailboxes direct from FREA by the end of this coming week (bulk mail).
Sounds like FREA needs a lot of newbies to sell insurance too. The only thing this vendor interest shows is that NACHI attracts all of the people wanting to get into this business. I guess that is what we should expect when NACHI sells certifications without any real requirements other than $289.00. Hell add another $175 and they can be masters.
Good point about newbies. Here are NACHI’s entrance requirements: http://www.nachi.org/membership.htm
I just got a call from a real estate agent new to the biz who was told by all the other agents around this area to make sure the inspector he uses was
NACHI
certified. Nothing else. NACHI.
So something must be working right. :shock:
I received my copy of Communicator today. Nice article about the House of Horrors. Too bad that half of the article was the appraisers story, had nothing to do with NACHI.
Also in the magazine was a comparision of associations. Also interesting. The article stated that NACHI has a little less than 6000 members. I read here it was more. huh.
Ditto, Cheryl’s comments. Nice magazine though. I also received ASHI’s InspectionWorld California Exhibitor Prospectus for their upcoming Convention in January, 2007.
Made me think… What is going on with NACHI’s convention. Time is getting short.
Anyone got any updates at all?
How is the education coming along?
Will the education be approved for CE’s for those states that require it this year?
John, I think our Toronto convention site is up (mostly taken from last year’s) and staff is getting all the vendors together, so some vendors and speakers listed will not be there, and some not listed will: http://www.nachi.org/convention2007.htm. OH NACHI will probably hold another convention by then and there is a California NACHI Convention upstarting.
As for continuing education I am trying to encourage the conventions NOT to offer state approved continuing education. Our experience, as the largest host of continuing education in the industry, shows clearly that the courses that are UNapproved are most popular (Mold, marketing, liability limitation, etc). Members can get the same old, same old courses for their state continuing education anywhere. Let’s keep the convention at least 70% offerings outside the scope of SOP… those are the good courses and the ones that end up packed.
If we can get courses approved in multiple states for CE, then this paradigm would change. Don’t you think, Nick?
Official Neater of Dead Horses;
I don’t know. We have quite a few state approved course. Some in your state of Illinois and they always take a ton of money and work to advertise enough to fill.
I hold a quiet little course on marketing or mold or any “good stuff”, the stuff states never approve… and I don’t even have to advertise those courses…they are always packed wall to wall. I’m doing two talks on marketing next week, one in Texas (a CE licensed state) and one in South Carolina (a CE licensed state). I think both have RSVP’s approaching 100 each. Doug at PRO-LAB consistently packs NACHI classes and his mold course is not approved for CE’s in any state.
The only state approved CE that is in the same class of popularity is electrical… and that is even with the advantage of having state approval.