Originally Posted By: late4ttime This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hello- I’m sure based on the many posts regarding this subject that many of you are getting bored with it. However I’m hopeful that you will lend your knowledge to this newbie as I ponder a career change.
Is it possible to have a successful career as an HI without a background in engineering or construction?
Looking at education it seems everyone has their favorite school or program. I'm located in St. Louis and have been advised to take the "Essentials" series published by Dearborn. This series is offered by Carson Dunlop as well as ASHI, (who uses ITA for classroom instruction, who in turn have a series developed around their classroom training which is half the cost of the ASHI, Carson/Dunlop course.) I would like to find the best school or program that wants to educate, not just sell tuition.
I'm not naive enough to think that you can graduate and start a successful business right off the bat, so how receptive are professional home inspectors to bringing on an educated but inexperienced home inspector?
Thank you for reading my post. I look forward to reading any suggestions and helpful advice.
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Yes, you can be successful. Just think, you don’t have a whole lot of “years of experience doing it wrong” to unlearn before you start “learning to do it right.”
The knowledge has already been lent. You just have to make the effort to drag it out of the archives.
I would suggest that, before asking everybody to repeat themselves, you use the "search" function for "schools" to see all the past threads about it.
Originally Posted By: late4ttime This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Thank you for replying. Before writing the post I had searched through the archives under “education”, however I was able to find some different discussions under other headings by following the archive search you recommended.
I still have unanswered questions regarding this career and the environment an educated new home inspector might find waiting for him.
Are established home inspectors, in your opinion willing to take on rookie home inspectors to season them?