In my area (Kansas City) and in a 100 mile radius around us, AHIT has been sending HUGE amounts of email blitzes to builders, remodelers, contractors (electricians, plumbers, HVAC, etc), appraisers, etc.
The message is always the same BS. Although construction and real estate is slow / Home Inspection is booming. Use your construction or real estate experience to get into this highly lucrative field. Work 25 hours a week and make $90,000 per year. Sign up now.
They price themselves about $750-$800 cheaper than any other training group and then if you can’t afford the $1,750 / They’ll let you put down $450 +/- and finance the rest at maybe $50 per month. Hurry up and sign up now. They hold classes at the local community college once a month and crank out 8-10 new inspectors a month.
Kansas just purged their state list. After a year of licensing and getting up to about 190 inspectors, they’ve dropped about 42.
I don’t think the average person going to AHIT realizes they being snowed.
I have seen AHIT inspectors realize it after they have rode with me after the first day. Most never come back, and go find a different career of work. AHIT glamorization of our industry goes away pretty quick.
Sorry to drag up an older thread, but I’m looking to train to become a Home Inspector, and AHIT is the program I was looking at!! :shock: I’m really scared after finding this thread… why is everyone talking negative about it?
Schools are to educate; not teach. If you want to learn, go out with an experienced inspector on 50 inspections, then make up your mind. Over 30 people that I tried to teach all left after the 16th inspection with me.
AHIT is a good place to learn how much you need to learn. You will leave the training with a basic understanding of the home inspection process. Then you should take all the NACHI courses you can. If you can find a mentor in your area I highly recommend it.
You have to know the demographics of the area you are marketing…
Demand is high in some markets while having dismal prospects in others.
Homes available for Inspection are a Finite number…
Understanding that and how to compare that data
… along with marketing to obtain your desired capture rate…
will determine your success…
Bottom Line,
You can not Inspect a Home not available to Inspect…
If the number of Inspectors drops by greater than 20 % …
… that should be a clue to the direction of the Industry within that geographic market for those looking to invest in HI Training.
Seems like demand is high for home inspector instructors to make more money. You know what thet say, “Old inspectors don’t die, they just become instructors.”.
AHIT trains people to become home inspectors. They teach the basics and then the rest is up to you. Yes, I had previous experience in the building industry, roofing to be specific and the AHIT course was what I needed when I decided to possibly enter the HI field. I kept up my day job, did HI part time while learning whatever I could in addition to what they taught me at AHIT. Six years of HI has taught me a lot, and I am still learning every day. I use the AHIT software on my tablet and I like it. Many inspectors don’t but that’s OK, I am the one running my business and it has grown by over 60% this year, so who am I to complain. As Russ said, professionalism and quality will lead to success.
Hii everyone,
I’m agree with you that now demand is high for home inspectors because when recently I planned to buy a new home and while doing research on it I found that a lot of people were asking me that whether you have arranged a good home inspector or not, then I thought home inspection is also a very important aspect so I joined this forum to get information about it and to share my views on it.
I’ve thought about getting into home inspection part time just to get my foot in the door while I keep my ‘day job’… I’d be one of them who would focus on quality and look to better the industry, but must admit it doesn’t seem like this profession is without risks.
It would allow me to move from boring eastern South Dakota but the amount of added work and stress over the decent paying day job I have now, having to itemize and keep receipts for tax purposes, having to pay for health insurance not to mention the social security tax, having to worry about liability from people suing… it’s definitely not all roses.
On the other hand I’d be one of them who focuses on quality and would be looking not just to better the home inspection industry, but the home building industry, since it seems to be full of people who cut corners and use materials that seem to start falling apart after 5-10 years on new constructions. Seems like everything these days is done fast, cheap, and disposable. Focus on quality, loyalty, integrity… seems to take second place.
