Here are the totally-unrelated programs you guys brought up and their current status:
- Creating our own insurance company where we own the company outright and thus don’t have to pay sales commissions and don’t have to rely on an underwriter, and so can offer the best service and really low prices.
STATUS: Completed and operating for a year: www.nachi.org/insurance-pr. We already have a very large book of business that we built in less than one year.
- Creating a system where sellers can have free home inspections and then charge buyers pay-per-view. InterNACHI would front the fee to the inspectors.
STATUS: I killed it after many members thought it was a conspiracy to take over the industry or some crazy thing. One even filed a legal complaint with TREC. I have no plans to relaunch.
- Creating a program where if something goes wrong, InterNACHI buys back the entire home with cash.
STATUS: Completed and operating for many years: www.nachi.org/buy. It’s become a killer marketing program and has saved quite a few members’ careers.
- Creating a program where members get paid for doing all of the roof warranty inspections in the U.S. and Canada.
STATUS: Completed and operating for many years: www.nachi.org/roof. Generated tens of millions of dollars for members.
- Creating and running a pilot program that combines #3 with #1 so that E&O insurance would be provided free to participating inspectors. Lots of state legal issues on this one.
STATUS: Completed the pilot and I’d grade it a B+ in terms of success. It is likely to lead to an entirely new Financial Services Department of InterNACHI.
- Creating a newsletter and sending it to every agent in North America.
STATUS: Completed. The program ran for about 14 years and only stopped when we had spam complaints. We even had a cool logo for it which you can see on this archived page: https://www.nachi.org/buyersrealtorsenewsletter.htm
- Creating a sponsored race car.
STATUS: Completed. Then we did the Ultimate Inspection Vehicles as well and took it to different inspection events, sponsored by inspection industry vendors. Here are some PICs: https://www.nachi.org/vegas2007.htm And some more PICs: https://www.nachi.org/exposure.htm. We also had Paul Sr. build us a chopper with InterNACHI and CMI® embedded into the chrome: Hot PICs of the PRO-LAB/InterNACHI Orange County Chopper in Vegas.
If you ever need to know the status of any program we tried to launch, just let me know.