Compromise on home inspector licensing never works, it is akin to two foxes and a chicken voting on what to have for dinner. Personally for me trying to find the benefit in home inspector licensing for home inspectors, is kinda like trying to pick up a turd from the clean end. Unless you peddle home inspector exams or teach others how to pass exams, just get over the notion that any good can come from it and everything begins to make sense.
With 50% of InterNACHI members that are pro licensing and 50%
who are against it, what should Nick do?
Regarding Realtors controlling inspectors…
In Texas, 99% of the realtors who know me, will not
refer me to their clients. They call me the deal killer. They
wish they could stop me from inspecting their homes.
How are they controlling me?
The TREC SoP is the most exhaustive in the nation. Inspectors
are required to reveal more and more information every year.
I do not include the realtor in my E&O insurance policy. I do not
solicit them or seek their help.
Realtors are invisible to me. How do they controll me?
InterNACHI is thriving and home inspectors are still doing very
well in many parts of Texas.
We have been licensed since 1985 and it’s no big deal.
Licensing is not the cause of HI failure IMHO.
I just don’t buy it. It’s just an excuse that people latch on to.
Hair dressers have to go through more education and training
than home inspectors, even in Texas.
We can do it. :mrgreen:
Good post. And despite all the fears of REALTORs controlling inspection licensing boards, the real problems all come from diploma mill ASHI members on licensing boards, and everyone knows it. ASHI has ZERO entrance requirements, is it any wonder that they push for crappy, low-requirement licensing?
TREC (the agency in charge of home inspector licensing in Texas) stands for the Texas Real Estate Commission… and they are a joy to work with IMHO. Given a choice, I’d rather work (and break bread) with a REALTOR over a diploma mill financial supporter any day.
Our policy has been posted on this message board many, many times. InterNACHI does not take a position on any legislation (good or bad) unless it is particularly InterNACHI unfriendly. InterNACHI has done a tremendous amount of lobbying in states like Kentucky, New Jersey, Michigan, Washington, Pensylvania, New Hampshire, etc., but in each case, we concentrated on making the legislation association neutral, and in each case, succeeded.
Given an even playing field (no licensing or association-neutral licensing), InterNACHI members, with the success tools InterNACHI provides them, will run rings around their non-member competitors, every time.
ASHI only supports licensing because of their connection with the NHIE. If it weren’t for that I believe their stance would be neutral because the percentage of members who support licensing are are similar to what is represented here a 50/50 split.
The difference of course is that those in power at ASHI are pro-licensing, whereas for a long time the voice of anti-licensing was centered here at NACHI.
Good thing is that the recession should stall major moves at the state level due to budget constraints and the NHIE will be hard pressed to continue to piss away big dollars for lobbyists without results, but in the end licensing will prevail to the detriment of us all. :twisted:
The best thing that could happen for us anti-licensing proponents is for the NHIE go out of business due to an extended recession, or be acquired by a neutral testing entity like ICC, then the push to license states through lobbyists would be reduced. One can only hope. 
Your mother must have been seriously frightened by an ASHI inspector while you were in the womb, Nick. It is the only explanation for your obsession.
Jim Burkeson nails it correctly again.
I suspect that when Jim, an honorable man, learns of the ACTUAL financial interest the association (he financially funds) has in supporting crappy NHIE licensing, he will do the right thing, and quit financially funding them.
This is what makes you so out of touch that you are barely relevant to the industry, outside of the 200 to 250 people who regularly post on your message board.
The message board is much like the Rush Limbaugh show, 200 to 250 callers, 18 million listeners.
I refer you to the nearly 20,000 people who actually took the time and effort to become a registered user of this message board.
The affections that you (Nick) and McKenna have for TREC is not reflected in the emails I have received from other Texas inspectors looking at attempting to regain control over their industry…particularly, the SOP…from the used house salesmen.
They acknowledge McKenna’s desires to sodomize his way on the board (not my choice of words, this time) and your desire to someday provide pay-per-view courses as not being representative of all of the inspectors in that State.
I am with them…and those from Kansas and a few eastern states who hope to take advantage of the moment.
Licensing solves nothing…is not consumer driven or oriented…and harms the consumer, inspector and industry.
Limit your ASHI bashing to the ASHI member who frightened your Mom. The rest of us mean you no harm at all. Your benign attitude toward licensing … and your condemnation of ASHI’s push for it…are contradictory and does not fool anyone.
Bla bla bla Jim.
I have always been opposed to licensing.
InterNACHI has always been neutral toward licensing.
ASHI has always pushed for licensing.
Nothing you can point to contradicts these.
You did more than that when you supported the Kansas home inspector licensing bill. You broke bread with both the Realtors and A$HI.
I can point to the message board.
Compare your “opposition” to licensing and all of your actions in support of your opposition…to ASHI’s push for it. Tell us all you have done to stop (not seek NACHI recognition “balance”) in their efforts.
James Braun, that is a lie.
I now must ask that you reference at least one post showing my support for the Kansas home inspector licensing bill, in order to save your honor.
…while virtually every NACHI member was engaged in fighting it, and its spread into Missouri…
There he was…Nick Gromicko (like Jane Fonda)…sitting on the VC anti aircraft gun, smiling for the press…promoting NACHI Tv.
I take that to mean that you, Jim Bushart, are also unable to reference a single post demonstrating my support for the Bill.
It was a “law” at the time you actually voiced your support…but it was/is being proposed for Missouri. In that sense, it was still a live bomb, Nick. Not a dead issue.
KAR and MAR were, and still are, combining their efforts to get “the other half” of KC by spreading the disease that you publicly embraced and endorsed into Missouri.
You may see a difference in this…but those of us on the battlefield know the real political situation that we confront.
Thank you, I knew that you are unable to reference a single post demonstrating my support for the Bill… because no support was given by me personally or InterNACHI officially.
Thank you for setting the record straight.
You might almost be able to get away with your play on words and spin…if it were not for the chronology.
While the bill was bill, you were silent. When the bill became a law…and was being pushed into Missouri…you embraced it, and its author, giving him a pulpit and stating that the law “was the freindliest law to HIs in the country”.
Then…when your NACHI Tv was rejected as a vendor…you took the action that we asked for when the bill was a bill, and put forth an effort to have it overturned with your mailing campaign.
When we needed it…you were neutral. When they stuck it in your butt, you suddenly wanted to help us.
No, sir. You are wearing the yellow stripe up the back of your shirt on this whole deal, Nick. You cannot spin it away.
Would you like me to rephrase my statement? It does not really matter to the members in Kansas or Missouri when you supported it but that you supported it. That is what we are disappointed about.