Ontario to regulate home inspectors

http://blackburnnews.com/bri-business/2016/08/17/ontario-looks-to-regulate-home-inspectors/

Ontario looks to regulatehome inspectors

By The Canadian PressAugust 17, 2016 12:54pm
TORONTO – Homeinspectors in Ontario could soon be regulated under legislation the Liberalgovernment says it intends to introduce this fall.
Consumer ServicesMinister Marie-France Lalonde is announcing today that the bill would requirehome inspectors to be licensed and set minimum standards for contracts and homeinspection reports.
It would alsoestablish a body to administer and enforce the licensing and regulations.
Lalonde says thelegislation would protect consumers by ensuring they benefit from qualityadvice and are aware of safety issues before buying a home.
The governmentestimates that in Ontario there are 1,500 home inspectors — one of the onlyprofessionals involved in a real-estate transaction to not be provinciallyregulated.
Ontario assembled apanel of industry experts in 2013 to draft a report on the issue and the panelrecommended that inspectors be required to pass a written exam and a field testin order to become licensed.

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           *News Release *
**Ontario to License Home Inspectors](http://news.ontario.ca/mgs/en/2016/08/ontario-to-license-home-inspectors.html?utm_source=ondemand&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p) **

August 17, 2016
**New Law Would Strengthen Consumer Protection, Level Playing    Field for Business **

Today, Minister of Government    and Consumer Services Marie-France Lalonde announced Ontario's intent to    introduce legislation this fall that would, if passed, regulate the province's    home inspection industry in order to better protect consumers. 
If passed, the proposed changes would:
  • Require home inspectors to be licensed with proper qualifications

  • Set minimum standards for contracts, home inspection reports, disclosures, and the performance of home inspections

  • Establish an independent Administrative Authority to administer and enforce the home inspection licensing legislation and associated regulations
    These changes would ensure consumers benefit from quality advice, are protected from surprise costs and aware of safety issues before buying a home. This will also create a level playing field for the home inspection industry, preventing inspectors with little or no training from competing with qualified professionals by offering lower rates.
    Protecting Ontario’s consumers is part of the government’s economic plan to build Ontario up and deliver on its number-one priority to grow the economy and create jobs. The four-part plan includes helping more people get and create the jobs of the future by expanding access to high-quality college and university education. The plan is making the largest infrastructure investment in hospitals, schools, roads, bridges and transit in Ontario’s history and is investing in a low-carbon economy driven by innovative, high-growth, export-oriented businesses. The plan is also helping working Ontarians achieve a more secure retirement.

           **QUICK FACTS **
    
  • Home inspectors are one of the only professionals involved in a real estate transaction who are not provincially regulated.

  • Approximately 65 per cent of resale homes sold annually receive a home inspection.

  • There are approximately 1,500 home inspectors in Ontario.

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[FONT=Calibri] [/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri] [/FONT]Still can’t get my headaround the fact they want to license 1,500 people…which, if it were to passwill likely be half that given the cost, trouble and HOT real estate market.

Not sure how it would be viable. Can it be arevenue generator with 1,500…so you’d think at best it would be revenueneutral. And if not, why the hell would Wynne put money towards us homeinspectors .

RoyCooke

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-to-introduce-regulations-for-home-inspections/article31443164/

**Ontario tointroduce regulations for home inspections **

**Tamsin McMahon -REAL ESTATE REPORTER **

The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016 1:36PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016 1:41PM EDT

Minister of Government and Consumer ServicesMarie-France Lalonde said the province plans to introduce laws that wouldestablish minimum standards for home inspections, including the type ofinformation that inspectors would be required to disclose to home buyers andthe language inspectors are allowed to use in their contracts.

The government said it alsoplans to create an independent administrative authority to licence the province’smore than 1,500 home inspectors.
“These changes would ensure consumers benefit fromquality advice, are protected from surprise costs and aware of safety issuesbefore buying a home,” the province said in a news release. “This will alsocreate a level playing field for the home inspection industry, preventinginspectors with little or no training from competing with qualifiedprofessionals by offering lower rates.”
Home inspectors are one of the few professionalstied to Ontario’s real estate industry that are not licensed or regulated, eventhough nearly 65 per cent of all homes sold on the resale market in Ontario areinspected each year, according to government estimates.
Related:How high home prices have buried Canadians in debt
Currently, home inspectors are governed by apatchwork of different industry organizations, each with their own trainingprograms and accreditation standards, although industry associations have urgedthe government to introduce rules that would apply to all inspectors.
Ontario has been examining the issue of licensinghome inspectors since 2013, when the idea was among 35 recommendations made byan expert panel the province created to study ways to strengthen consumerprotection in the housing market.
Liberal MPP Han Dong introduced a private members’bill in February that sought to license the industry, prompting the governmentto announce plans to draft its own legislation.
If the legislation passes, Ontario would join B.C.and Alberta as the only provinces in Canada to regulate the home-inspectionindustry. The B.C. government announced earlier this year that it planned totighten its regulations governing home inspectors, including requiringinspectors to have liability insurance, introducing stricter rules aroundrecord-keeping and banning contracts that limit an inspectors’ liability.

Re: Ontario to regulate home inspectors
Still can’t get my headaround the fact they want to license 1,500 people…which, if it were to passwill likely be half that given the cost, trouble and HOT real estate market.

Not sure how it would be viable. Can it be arevenue generator with 1,500…so you’d think at best it would be revenueneutral. And if not, why the hell would Wynne put money towards us homeinspectors .

RoyCooke

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-to-introduce-regulations-for-home-inspections/article31443164/

**Ontario tointroduce regulations for home inspections **

**Tamsin McMahon -REAL ESTATE REPORTER **

The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016 1:36PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016 1:41PM EDT

Ontario said it plans to start licensing homeinspectors in the province as part of legislation that could be passed as earlyas this fall.
Minister of Government and Consumer ServicesMarie-France Lalonde said the province plans to introduce laws that wouldestablish minimum standards for home inspections, including the type ofinformation that inspectors would be required to disclose to home buyers andthe language inspectors are allowed to use in their contracts.

The government said it alsoplans to create an independent administrative authority to licence the province’smore than 1,500 home inspectors.
“These changes would ensure consumers benefit fromquality advice, are protected from surprise costs and aware of safety issuesbefore buying a home,” the province said in a news release. “This will alsocreate a level playing field for the home inspection industry, preventinginspectors with little or no training from competing with qualifiedprofessionals by offering lower rates.”
Home inspectors are one of the few professionalstied to Ontario’s real estate industry that are not licensed or regulated, eventhough nearly 65 per cent of all homes sold on the resale market in Ontario areinspected each year, according to government estimates.
Related:How high home prices have buried Canadians in debt
Currently, home inspectors are governed by apatchwork of different industry organizations, each with their own trainingprograms and accreditation standards, although industry associations have urgedthe government to introduce rules that would apply to all inspectors.
Ontario has been examining the issue of licensinghome inspectors since 2013, when the idea was among 35 recommendations made byan expert panel the province created to study ways to strengthen consumerprotection in the housing market.
Liberal MPP Han Dong introduced a private members’bill in February that sought to license the industry, prompting the governmentto announce plans to draft its own legislation.
If the legislation passes, Ontario would join B.C.and Alberta as the only provinces in Canada to regulate the home-inspectionindustry. The B.C. government announced earlier this year that it planned totighten its regulations governing home inspectors, including requiringinspectors to have liability insurance, introducing stricter rules aroundrecord-keeping and banning contracts that limit an inspectors’ liability.

*This is what OVERGOVERNMENT is about! * I fully agree with you Roy, as I do in Québec! The MARKET LAWS do a much better job than any legislation will ever, period!

G

With respect Gilles, if that were true we wouldn’t need legislation and this and other message boards and social media sites wouldn’t be full of inspectors complaining about cut-price, under trained, poor inspectors who continue to get work. Why?

Because Market forces dictate if you are cheap you can fool the public into parting with their money for nothing.

Legislation will be good for the profession and ultimately good for the consumer.

Here is an interesting string on Home Inspector Licensing .
** Some states have had licensing of home Inspectors and then dropped that requirement .**
I can not see the cost can cover the expense .

The Ontario government obviously thinks differently Roy.

Just scared of Government getting involved with anything. Its never about us or the people. Its always about them with their hands in other people (our) pockets: taxation, over taxation, double taxation, levies, fines, bla…bla… Government can take money from you and call it anything they want. They actually do not always call it tax.

You got my vote .

T hey say there is about 1500 inspectors , This could go down a lot when Licensing comes about .
I do not see how this could be self supporting .
Looking at how few complaints have been shown I do not see how what we have now could be improved .
I was told the experts who sat on the committee many had never been on an inspection .

Based on recent discussions with other inspectors, real estate stats, and insurance projections number have already decreased. Based on numbers with the NHICC our numbers are down about 10%, with a small handful of hopeful “newbies”.

One recent BC licensing change is an inspector no longer needs to be a member of an association, so it will be hard to track or compare exact numbers. Other than through checking for those actually licensed.

So in my opinion, the numbers have already gone down a lot, and likely will fall to very low levels. Consider many retirements, lack of home inspections due to a wide spread “condition removal” scare with bidding wars, and of course simple attrition. Let’s not forget even changes in the licensing regs where risk level has been increased through stronger “consumer protection” initiatives.

Fewer inspectors will ultimately equate to more money to attain and maintain a license, especially to cover the “admin” costs to sustain the licensing regimes. Let’s face it most of the cost is already part of an association membership fee, now add on a license, mandatory insurance, etc. etc…

There’s little room for the small guy, or part-timer.

Great info as per usual Thanks Claude .
Unfortunately the future for the public and the home inspector association’s and the home Inspector does not look good to me .

I expect NACHI could be the only survivor .

I’m absolutely not against some form of legislation. But it requires to be fair, balanced and do the job of protecting not just the consumer but the professional as well!

A tall order!

G

We can wish for this but I do have my doubts .

Yup…inspections already down: did an inspection for a guy last week after he took possession. Maybe he did not want to know whats wrong before he buy, but instead want to know what to fix.

Change little room to “no room”. it is more accurate.

I actually see things from a different perspective Claude. While the numbers of inspections may be down this year, the level of membership in associations will be based upon the benefit the inspector believes they deride from membership.

We can take the negative approach and suggest that licensing will do away with the need for associations but if membership of an association can actually save the inspector money and provide them with a competitive advantage over a non-member, then the association will survive.

As for licensing itself, I see it as a launch platform for something much better in Ontario. Having an un-regulated profession (no matter what some associations will tell you) means that the government agencies and corporate entities can’t back the profession.

Once regulation comes in, then this restriction is lifted. We shouldn’t have had to go to the extremes of government regulation, but the Home Inspection profession has shown that they are too entrenched in blue collar name calling tactics to actually regulate themselves. That’s why, even with the great intent of the creation of the OAHI, it failed to regulate the profession. In fact, because of the inability of the inspectors to realise we are not a blue-collar trade but a white collared consultancy profession it has actually accelerated the fracturing of the industry.

There are a few that realise that now and those individuals are working together to try to glue the profession back together again, but there are others that are still stuck with the old “blame culture” methodologies.

Exciting and interesting times ahead I think.

This was not your position in 2014 when the PQ was in power.
I am not trying to start something Gilles.

I remember when you did not want legislation and then you have both feet in the fire with M.A.B.

If done well I am all for it.
From what I hear, grandfathering and you do not have to be with, part, a member of and association, but do not quote me on that.

Happy to see you posting.

Regards.

I concur.
Numbers are down but newbies always pop up.

From my perspective, 6 years ago saw a sharp influx into the inspection business.
Media and the internet made this hard job look easy.
Low startup cost and away we goooo!

I see home inspector numbers falling in my neck of the woods but I have no statistics to back up my statement except to say, all the homies I have mentored, 13 are not inspecting homes after they shadowed me several times.
Some admitted, I never thought it would be this hard.
I guess carry my tools, three large bags, over 40 pounds, got to them, ha ha ha.

Much thanks for your prospective Claude.

So, with that statement being made, one has to wonder the real reason they are no longer in business.

So, nobody is allowed to ever change their opinion on a matter?