Close but no cigar, here we tend to use the English vernacular, hence… Vendor.
Happy New Year 
You are just a text book case of a hostage falling in love with the person holding him hostage. The longer the hostage is held, the more he forgets how good things was before he was held captive. Sad, very sad.
In Kansas, the inspectors voiced their opinion but it was not heard because it was not backed with A$HI, Realtors and the lawyers’ money. Money writes bad legislation, not individuals’ voices.
Your very good at parables, but avoid the facts. :mrgreen:
Be sure to leave your brochures at the Realtors office
so you can get your next job… LOL.
You may want to go back and read my post from years ago,
because I have never been called ‘ho hum’ or a ‘vender’. :mrgreen:
But you do know how to use the smilie face feature well…:twisted::twisted::twisted:
Do you have any clue at all who’s involved with legislation in your state.
One post you claim it’s an ashi member, next post you claim it’s backed by $s from realtors and lawyers :roll::roll::roll:
Did you ever find that ashi inspector that you claimed to hear him say , he was going to put non ashi members out of business, only to discover when you went to see who he was, he vanished into thin air :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
As published in the ASHI Reporter a couple of months ago by the ASHI president who ramrodded the law in New Hampshire, ASHI - by itself - presents a one-sided image to legislators and in order to get ASHI’s model for licensing through, the trick is for ASHI members to step outside of the association and form “coalitions” that appear to represent ALL associations and their inspectors.
It’s the PHIC model that had such success in Pennsylvania that many leaders in ASHI (for the ASHI rank and file in Missouri actually oppose licensing) are trying to emulate and put themselves into power with.
So…in Missouri, ASHI’s fake “coalition” is run by four ASHI chapter presidents and calls itself the Missouri Association of Home Inspectors. The Kansas version of the fake “coalition” was run by Jeff Barnes.
The KAR and the MAR are financing the licensing agenda and are assisting the fake “coalitions”. In return, the fake “coalition” in Kansas lobbied to put a realtor and a trial lawyer on their licensing board.
So…as one can see, by collusion and deceit, ASHI leaders (in MO, in opposition to their own membership) working with the political infrastructure paid for by the KAR and MAR, have pushed through home inspection legislation.
Fortunately for the good guys, the law that the realtors bought in Kansas contained enough flaws written into it by the fake coalition, that the AG had to send it back to the legislature. With some effort on the part of Kansas HI’s and a little help from some civil action groups, we might be able to keep it from coming back.
Our opposition to licensing is not just to fight licensing.
Remember…we work in states that have refused to adopt building codes and enforce them. When we try to recommend contractors…two thirds of our counties do not license electricians, plumbers, builders, general contractors, or hvac techs.
The effort to license us…in the absence of holding anyone else in the building trades to a standard or license…is nothing more than an effort by realtors to control us and keep us from killing their deals, and having a means of threatening our licenses when we do.
We will continue to fight anyone…including Nick Gromicko…who gets in the way of our efforts to keep our profession free from such controls and to ensure our clients receive complete, accurate and unbiased home inspection reports. We will fight any association…whether we belong to it or not…who aids and abets those who put the realtor’s agenda over the welfare and future of our profession.
Our loyalty is not to any particular association…it is to our profession. When an association (or certain members of its leadership) puts our profession second to their own financial gain, they put themselves squarely in our cross-hairs and we have no second thoughts about taking them out, as well as the original enemy.
These are the dynamics, in a nutshell, that we are fighting in Missouri and Kansas.
Had Nick consulted any of us before working with the enemy to advance his own personal financial gain we could probably be reading a kinder and gentler message board. But, as you will read throughout, Nick knows everything and the rest of us know nothing…so why bother?
Nick is out of touch. NACHI will always have its baby birds sitting in the nest with open mouths, asking to be fed. Nick feeds them, but notice how their names change every two or three years. This will not change and its okay. They pay the money and Nick puts on the show. He calls these benefits and, for however long they manage to stay in business, those who wait to be fed continue to eat it up.
But there are those of us who are here for the long term…who have needs and issues that exceed free handouts to realtors and discounts at Office Depot. When our associations fail us, we have to do it on our own.
That is what we are doing in Missouri and Kansas.
And that is what can be done, today, in any other state where inspectors would like to control their own destinies and escape control by the state and the realtors.
Your state is losing millions this year!!! Why would you want someone who loses millions to be running your business?
Repeal your law.
Now is the time.
You may want to look at your facts again. 
Anybody who knows me or even reads my posts know that I do not leave any information about my company at real estate offices. I can show you several posts where I have been attacked for discouraging inspectors to pimping themselves out to Realtors. I only encourage inspectors to mainly educate the Realtors, not to market to them.
You are confused. First I am not in Kansas, I am in Missouri. Jeff Barnes is doing A$HI , Realtors and the lawyers bidding. I would imagine there is an organization, similar to the Missouri Housing Industry Alliance that helps form these alliances. I have seen this treachery first hand in Missouri, so when Kansas inspectors tell me what is going on in their state I am not surprised.
Secondly, You are confused again. Which appears to be common with you. :mrgreen: You must had me confused with somebody else I did not say the last statement. Now in previous posts you claimed that an A$HI member disappeared years ago when he ran to his truck after I comforted him about his organization A$HI supporting licensing. Just because I did not rat him out as a coward, does not mean he disappeared. In fact he is still around but has not belong to A$HI or no other organization for over two years now. A lot of the Realtors still believe he belongs to A$HI, so he gets to use the A$HI branding campaign for free.
Must be :twisted:
Gotta admit I’m still confused how you claim to never used/ had an IR camera, yet I still sure I saw the post where you voted for using the fluke tir:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
Oh yea… I still confused why you would provide training to realtors just for the fun of it, opposed to doing it for realtor referrrals:roll::roll:
You were the one that told me that Realtors are holding me back.
I assumed you were advising me from your own experience.
Realtors do not hold me back?
My biggest problem is all the “sky is falling” talk I hear about
licensing, when I know from experience it’s not like that.
When people hear that from me and then try to tell me I
have some kind of psychological disorder, I am amazed at
such childish tactics. It confirms to me that they cannot
deal with logical reasoning and revert to ploys and mocking.
Try this one next time:
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…” :mrgreen:
you get the idea.
If there were not on-line instant HI certificiations, CMI certificiations,IR, ,fireplace, mold, and other bogus certs by simply, filling out a form, taking an on-line quiz, and promising to complete other non-verified things to be marketed to the public as “certified”
How many experienced/ professional inspectors and states would never bother with Lic, and how many more HI would agree with, and support busshy???
Hep! you are diffently confused. I have never voted for any IR camera.
Providing education is a good way of promoting yourself to Realtors but the main reason to educate Realtors is to better the image of home inspectors unlike the branding campaign in wich A$HI did aimed towards the Realtors. Providing false information and propaganda that gets past on to their clients does not do the industry any good. If you would read some of the Active Rain posts, you will find out that because of A$HI most Realtors believe writing a soft report is the best thing A$HI inspectors do.
Sad but true.
If I were you , I would file a complaint with nick that someone voted using your name:twisted::twisted::twisted:
BCAM SD vs. Fluke TiR
How many angels dance on the head of a pin?
Makes about as much sense.
Realtors do hold you back just like me. Just as you cannot see what is wrong with licensing, you fail to see how they do hold you back. Even after it is explained to you.
You just need to calm down some and stop taking things so seriously. Click your heels together three times and say three times out loud “Everything is wonderful in Texas”. I bet this will put you in a better mood. :mrgreen:
I didn’t expect a straight answer from someone that profits from an instant, just fill out a form and pay 300.00 for a non verified CMI certification, and a grade school level IR cert:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
At least John is only delusional about licensing. You are delusional about most everything else. Also I bet John can post a link that works.
I think John posted a good question. Why don’t you answer it.
Nevermind you do not have the capability that a smart man like John is trying to say to you?
So I guess out of the goodness of your heart, you spend your time educating realtors to use other nacho inspectors.:roll::roll::mrgreen::mrgreen: