I’m a former restoration/ newbuild/ installation contractor that got fed up with big builders round the pandemic time and decided to go into inspections. Went through iGo academy and was picked up by a great inspection company during my ride alongs the academy offered after course completion.
Currently, im doing the Nachi CPI cert and have come to the part where the “mock inspection” submissions are required to continue the process. Ive got nearly 600 inspections under my belt in the almost 18 months I’ve been at this company.
Here’s my pickle: They run me hard, I’ll average 50-60 hours out in the field each week, and I barely have time with my family let alone time to perform several Mock inspections. Does anyone know if Nachi would accept any of my actual inspection reports in lieu of the mocks?
Any information or guidance would be helpful. Thanks in advance!!!
I think they will not because they could have been written by anyone. InterNACHI wants to proctor you from your login.
As for working 50 to 60 hours…I worked many times that becoming certified.
No excuses.
You are also online for stating you have done 600 inspections. Some may contend, you are open to liability now for every inspection. Not judging. Just saying…
I’m fairly certain they would accept your actual inspections as your required “mock” inspections. The reason why they require mock inspections is because most people aren’t out doing real inspections at that point in the process. So, just submit them, you’ll be fine.
Many times 50-60 hrs per week, eh? Soooo, what you were pulling 16-20 hr days 5 or 7 days a week? Maybe you meant to say that youve worked that time length many times while becoming certified?
Also, as far as being implicated for whatever you think I’d be; I reside in CA, one of the few states that doesn’t require a state license to perform inspections. Go ahead, Google it. Beyond that, iGo and InterNachi are partners in many endeavors: Internachi considers iGo graduates to have had quality training. And, if im being honest, the tests from iGo mirror those from InterNACHI in difficulty and scale of knowledge required to pass each respectively.
You do make a good point about the login, I’ll give you that, but the files that are made through the program we use have my unique login info and contact info; in other words, you cant “spoof" the author and the credentials can be verified easily.
And I respectfully ask that you come down off that high-horse of yours with that “no excuses" comment as you know nothing of my life; I have a young kid, a house to take care of, a wife who also works that i barely get time with, and a good community that I have presence and involvement in when I’m able.
Besides, given your frequency and rapidness of replies to my very young post I’m gonna go ahead and call BS on your hours worked. Not judging, just saying.
Daniel, I did not have a wife or childern.
I was selfish. I drank and chased women well into my 40’s.
Lots of old times like me live off of 5 hours of sleep. May with trades backgrounds and amazing accomplishments in the home inspection industry. Nick Gromicko. George Wells. Larry Kage. Kenton Shepard. My mentor, Roy Cooke Senior. I can go on and on.
I understand. Sorry if you thought my tone was harsh.
I cared for my Mother when she turned 80, I was called to the hospital, Mother’s heart stopped, until she was 94 as a live-in caregiver. Through those years, I started from scratch with a credit card loan of $1,000 for an exterior restoration company, and later own a home inspection business, meaning education certification, marketing, ect…If I got 4-5 hours of sleep on average a night, beside going to the emergency room up to 20 times a year due to heart attacks, strokes, calling out of town family and worrying, it was fine with me.
We are not all built the same. I am sure with your experience you can complete 4 mock inspections in 5 hours.
Best of heath and happiness to you and your family.
It has been awhile since I went through the process but I’m pretty sure that they accepted real inspections from me.
Like you I also live in no license required state.
Got “certified” thinking that it would be a good sales tool however in the nearly 20 yrs I’ve been doing this I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve been asked about my certification, if that hand had all of the fingers missing.
I get more mileage from being a licensed contractor.
Robert, I’ve been registered and paying to InterNACHI for well over a year now. If you’d like, I’ll post a picture of my drone pilots lisence and certification with it’s date of completion which was the very first thing I completed through this organization because SO MANY roofs in SoCal are concrete tile, and the organization I work for doesnt allow us to walk on them, and, we have a ton of 2+ story structures. I suspect that the “joined 8 hours ago” assertion is due to my first ever post to the forum, which was, in fact, 8 hours ago. Promptly thereafter you began your onslaught of “no excuses”.
iGo Inspection Acedemy is still open and going strong. Again, GOOGLE IT. I Will not update my profile to placate some power-trip having Canadian who initially came off as some superiority-complex having blowhard, who self admittedly said he drank and chased women well into his 40s then gave some sob story to try and backpedal his initial conduct.
Beyond that, another veteran poster literally said that the majority of what you post is, and I quote “just about everything he posts here is drivel". So forgive me, please, for saying unabashedly, NO.
Happy you are digging in with education. Good for you.
The “no excuses" remark was self imposed. Not aimed at you.
As for you and your wife working bring up a child. Google search: In the United States, approximately 59.8% of married-couple families with children had both parents employed in 2020, and this figure was 49.6% in 2024. In Canada, the number of dual-earner families with children grew to be 68% of all couple families with young children in 2021.
May I offer a truly beneficial suggestion that InterNACHI offers all members once again? One fills out there profile to introduce yourself to all members. Moreover, filling out your InterNACHI profile is important for building your professional online presence while allowing you to be searchable by potential clients and agents, and it provides a platform to showcase your credentials and certifications.
My mentor Roy Cooke senior, first InterNACHI member inducted into the Home Inspector Hall of Fame, use to call and advise me from the get go. Be happy and smile all the time, Robert. Smile answering the phone. Just try it. It works.
Well it really does. I hope you try it out, Daniel.
As for InterNACHI veterans, I chose my peers over the long run.
As I said previously. Wishing you and your family much success.
Self imposed. That’s rich. You already exposed yourself. I’m not here for it, and I’m not going to play your stupid games.
What the hell did you google search to reference that parenting stat? So what? It’s completely unrelatable to you, because you’re childless. And it’s seemingly incoherent because it references, vaguely, 3 different years or time slots with no congruent comparisons or sets of data.
I’m well aware of the added benefits the Nachi profiles add to our career paths. Thing is, I’ve already amassed a small army of amazing agents, contractors, and investors that request me by name regularly. I wanted to test my mettle and see what I was made of in the most volitile and active real estate market on the planet. And now that I have, well, now I’m wasting my time arguing with you about how I can possibly speed up a process that I already know I’m more than capable of. And that’s not to detract from InterNACHI’s amazing benefits or resources in the slightest. In fact, I’m eager and excited to add their backing and be listed on their roster once I’m done with the CPI cert, and when I hit 1000 inspections, the CMI. So I’m doing what you did, in choosing my peers/colleagues over InterNachi veterans like you, right?
You offered nothing in your previous responses in regards to the added benefits of InterNACHI. You stated that “the members would be interested” towards my involvement with iGo insinuating a “gotcha" tone. *slow clap*
Also, in my most humble of opinions, if you have to repeatedly reference another man’s achievements to make those of your own valid…. I’ll seldom, if I ever, take you seriously.
Look, dude. I started this post with a simple question: “do any of you think that this organization would accept my already completed, professional grade inspections, in place of the required mock inspections?”
You saw what you thought was a rookie trying to short the system, had to flex your insecure whatever the hell you think you had to flex, and blew this entire thing way out of context/ proportion.
Move on, Robert. No one’s impressed. Especially me.
