Why in the world would do you make the ASSumption that all these for-profit companies that provide stuff like free report upload services exclusively to InterNACHI members, free signs and trade show banners exclusively to InterNACHI members, free marketing material exclusively to InterNACHI members, free books exclusively to InterNACHI members, free IAC2 membership exclusively to InterNACHI members, free video education exclusively to InterNACHI members, free online commercials exclusively to InterNACHI members, free Inspector’s Quarterlys exclusively to InterNACHI members, free websites exclusively to InterNACHI members, free hosting exclusively to InterNACHI members, free microwave oven meters exclusively to InterNACHI members, etc… make a profit?
Forget taking Law 101, take an accounting 101 course.
“ComIn**spect’s goal is to corner the commercial inspection market for InterNACHI members and to provide InterNACHI members with commercial inspection jobs, forms, subcontractors, marketing tools and free insurance.”
The funds to this “for profit” company cannot come from “not for profit” NACHI and the expenses of providing these services for whoever participates will be considerable.
The same place the money comes from for funding the companies that provide stuff like free report upload services exclusively to InterNACHI members, free signs and trade show banners exclusively to InterNACHI members, free marketing material exclusively to InterNACHI members, free books exclusively to InterNACHI members, free IAC2 membership exclusively to InterNACHI members, free video education exclusively to InterNACHI members, free online commercials exclusively to InterNACHI members, free Inspector’s Quarterlys exclusively to InterNACHI members, free websites exclusively to InterNACHI members, free hosting exclusively to InterNACHI members, free microwave oven meters exclusively to InterNACHI members, etc.
And the money is only a small part of it. The work that goes into these operations far exceeds any monetary investment. I’ll give you an example. Chris developed the entire www.InspectorPages.com system himself at night, sometimes working all night. He maintains it for free too. Again, you figure out how much money he is making providing InterNACHI members with free websites, free maintenance, and free hosting, for all these years.
You won’t need a calculator to determine his bottom line.
“Brothers helping Brothers compete against Brothers”
MOTTO for “the VENDORS”:
“The more Brothers we can produce easily and cheaply on these boards, the more Consumers we have for OURSELVES [size=1](the important ones)…well, at least for the 2-3 years they may get to play Home Inspector”[/size]
Remember…these days…just about anyone can be a home inspector…just ask Nick!!!
In lieu of the fact that InterNACHI doesn’t take paid advertisers, not even a banner ad, who pockets all the money saved on all these vendor discounts: www.InspectorMALL.com ???