All certification requirements are completely free to members.
To become a certified home inspector, you must:
If you have never performed any fee-paid inspections, you must:
Once you've completed the above requirements, you must sign your membership affidavit:
To maintain certification, you must:
Within the first year after joining InterNACHI, you must complete:
- InterNACHI's online Safe Practices for the Home Inspector course (4 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online 25 Standards Every Inspector Should Know course (5 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online Residential Plumbing Overview for Inspectors course (8 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Perform Residential Electrical Inspections course (4 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Perform Roof Inspections course (4 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Inspect HVAC Systems course (12 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online Structural Issues for Home Inspectors course (4 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Perform Exterior Inspections course (16 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Inspect the Attic, Insulation, Ventilation and Interior course (14 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Perform Deck Inspections course (3 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Inspect for Moisture Intrusion course (8 hours, free, take at your own pace),
- InterNACHI's online How to Inspect Fireplaces, Stoves, and Chimneys course (4 hours, free, take at your own pace).
Supervised Practical
Fieldwork/Training
InterNACHI requires fifty (50) supervised practical training
hours, which may include fully supervised home inspections (equaling 5 hours of
training per inspection), in order to complete the certification program.
InterNACHI’s Student Services team works with certified professional inspectors
in each region to set up students with a qualified supervisor for their training
hours.
To maintain certification, you must:
Warning to Consumers:
Unlike other home inspection associations, InterNACHI front-ends many
of its certification requirements and requires that its members take
many courses and examinations after joining. In other words, all of our
certified members must fulfill certification requirements before they
can become certified. Other associations have few or no entrance
requirements, and encourage their members and associates to go out and
perform hundreds of unqualified inspections for poor, unsuspecting
consumers.
Continuing Education Log
InterNACHI's continuing education system automatically logs every course completion to a timestamped transcript. More information about the online Continuing Education log.
Note to existing members:
InterNACHI's membership requirements are subject
to change, but existing members need only comply with the requirements
in effect at the time they joined.
Note to members of other associations:
Members of other associations are welcome to join InterNACHI, but a
requirement of membership is that InterNACHI must be given equal
prominence in your marketing materials (such as brochures and websites)
as the other associations you belong to.
