Originally Posted By: dharris This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
tallen wrote:
Is it ASHI or Suntech?
ASHI, It should be a good one if your doing or thinking about doing new homes, trusses by a truss engineer and framing by a non ASHI member that has a lot of HI and hands on experience in the field.
Originally Posted By: tallen This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
dharris wrote:
tallen wrote:
Is it ASHI or Suntech?
ASHI, It should be a good one if your doing or thinking about doing new homes, trusses by a truss engineer and framing by a non ASHI member that has a lot of HI and hands on experience in the field.
Where is it at?
What time?
-- I have put the past behind me,
where , however, it now sits, making rude remarks.
Originally Posted By: dharris This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
tallen wrote:
dharris wrote:
tallen wrote:
Is it ASHI or Suntech?
ASHI, It should be a good one if your doing or thinking about doing new homes, trusses by a truss engineer and framing by a non ASHI member that has a lot of HI and hands on experience in the field.
Where is it at?
What time?
Sheridan 5151 W Grant 7:30- 4:30 full details @ www.azashi.org
Originally Posted By: tallen This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
dharris wrote:
tallen wrote:
dharris wrote:
tallen wrote:
Is it ASHI or Suntech?
ASHI, It should be a good one if your doing or thinking about doing new homes, trusses by a truss engineer and framing by a non ASHI member that has a lot of HI and hands on experience in the field.
Where is it at?
What time?
Sheridan 5151 W Grant 7:30- 4:30 full details @ www.azashi.org
Thanks Dan, but I have a 9500 sq. ft inspection tomorrow at 10:00 so I will not be there.
This one is sweet,
2003 and it's vacant!!!
I only charged them $179.00 dollars 
Actually, with the 4 AC units and all it's $1095.00 I figure 7 hours for i spection and 2+ for the report.
There is many extras ie; movie room, 2 kitchens, inside spa et al;
-- I have put the past behind me,
where , however, it now sits, making rude remarks.
Originally Posted By: bsumpter This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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experience does count for something.
Well said Sir.
As for the service to my County, you could say its a tradition in my family. My Father is a Marine, His brother, my Mothers brother and I.
I have never doubted your experience. And I truly do understand what you are saying. I just take exception to being called a variety of names, all because I made a business decision to join.
Do I wish some things were different? Absolutely. Do I feel that this forum is the best conduit of change, the best way to channel energy? NO.
I feel that anyone that uses this forum to black-eye NACHI while saying that they are doing it for my betterment and illumination of what a crook Nick is not only misguided, but moronic and foolish. The MAB, and the chapters should work towards the the ultimate goal. The best inspectors, training and a real presence in the community. As RR says, educate...educate...educate.
With better training, better CE, better inspectors, better visibility to the people that really need us, the clients- Who loses? If NACHI fades away, who wins..really?
-- "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the mind that is prepared"
Originally Posted By: Gilbert Strachan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
jbushart wrote:
Larry - Before you respond....
I hope you can see the pattern, here, before it starts.
Gil tries to stir up anger against Nick and it fails. He is left all alone and looking like an idiot.
What is his way out and to kill the thread?
Get you, Ray, and Roy in here, along with Bottoms, and it spins off into another pissing match that no one reads or cares about, then sinks away into oblivion.
This once, I ask you to let him sit in his own soiled pants.
He posted the monkey and Jason posted the hand. Let the two of them spank Gil's monkey for all of us to watch and laugh at.
Please. I promise you, it will be much more fun to watch him squirm.  
Why do you think I would want a way out, or a way to kill a thread that I started?
Originally Posted By: Gilbert Strachan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
jbushart wrote:
I personally like to hear the story of how the mean and evil Nick interrupted your plan to profit from a publicity scheme that left you holding the bag. That one makes all of us laugh.
Would you please tell that one, again?  
OK, here it goes... Nick was looking for marketing leads in Canada. I asked him if he would be interested in placing repeat NACHI banner ads in real estate presentation folders at 2/3 off the posted rates. He said "Do it." I explained the pricing. He said "cool." I asked the Canadian NACHI attorney to draw up a contract between NACHI and National Graphics and DL Advertising respectively, which was done. The contracts also provided for NACHI members to purchase ads for themselves in these folders at a 25% discount.
NACHI ads were inserted into a hundred-or-so folder orders of 1000 to 3000 each, for delivery to RE offices. Many NACHI members bought ads in these folders at their own expense, to take advantage of exposure in the same folders where the banners extolled NACHI inspectors as "The best home inspectors in the world."
Weeks and months went by without Nick paying any invoices from these companies, who then started to ask me why they weren't getting paid. I told them to ask the lawyer, and he told them to ask Nick... but as usual, they couldn't find Nick - or anyone who would give them any straight answers.
So there you have it... unpaid invoices, and unwitting home inspectors with NACHI logos all over their ads - in folders with NACHI banner ads that haven't been paid for, and probably never will be.
Tell me again James, what is so funny about all that?
Originally Posted By: Gilbert Strachan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
gromicko wrote:
Gil,
We have no control over dead links on websites that aren't ours. Our system tries to re-route dead links back to NACHI's homepage.
Many of our internet domains are owned by the group you mention who acts like a holding company for NACHI and leases the domains back to us for asset protection purposes. We've essentially made NACHI judgment proof so that we go on forever no matter what happens.
I hope that answers your questions.
1. I can understand a bad link, but if the Missouri Housing Development Commission has included NACHI as an "Approved Certifying Organization" then why is NACHI not mentioned anywhere on the MHDC website?
2. If NACHI is "member driven" then why does NACHI need "holding companies" for anything?
3. If NACHI is a non-profit professional organization owned by its membership, why does it need to be "judgement proof?" What sort of judgements against NACHI were you expecting?
Originally Posted By: Gilbert Strachan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
bsumpter wrote:
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experience does count for something.
Well said Sir.
As for the service to my County, you could say its a tradition in my family. My Father is a Marine, His brother, my Mothers brother and I.
And Bushart was in the Air Force, and so was I... for twenty years. Even Gromicko claims he did some time, but I don't see what this has to do with the discussion at hand.
Every time somebody tries to make a point, somebody else jumps up and down about his service time, as if they're owed some extra credit on this MB because of it.
Nick claimed that the MHDC included NACHI as a certifying organization. I questioned that announcement. Now we know that Nick doesn't concern himself with dead links, and that NACHI isn't owned by its membership.
This has nothing to do with you personally, the Marines or anyone else.
Originally Posted By: jbushart This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Gil,
If you had checked the link on the day it was posted you would have been directed to a page called "Certified Home Inspectors" that listed (and linked to the the inspector data bases of ) NACHI, ASHI, and NAHI. It is no longer an active page.
My guess is that some local home inspectors who are not a member of any of the three associations made an argument and the page was pulled. I have made an inquiry and I will be happy to post the response when I get it.
Had you inquired instead of accused, you would have gotten the same information. Of course, you will challenge this as being truthful, etc. for we know that no explanations are satisfactory to NACHI bashers (while none are necessary to most NACHI members).
As a NACHI member in Missouri who has been in contact with the lenders who have been referred to that web site, I know it to be accurate and, frankly, that is all that really matters to me.
Originally Posted By: psabados This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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1. I can understand a bad link, but if the Missouri Housing Development Commission has included NACHI as an "Approved Certifying Organization" then why is NACHI not mentioned anywhere on the MHDC website?
Sometimes you just can't see the forest for the trees. Sometimes people try to walk through the forest with their eyes closed, only to run into the trees. 
Originally Posted By: bsumpter This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
stupid arent you? I didnt think so before, but now I must say I am surprised by your lack of basic conversation skills. It really dosent take much to follow a thread, but this seems to be beyond your comprehension.
How sad.
-- "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the mind that is prepared"
Originally Posted By: Gilbert Strachan This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
psabados wrote:
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1. I can understand a bad link, but if the Missouri Housing Development Commission has included NACHI as an "Approved Certifying Organization" then why is NACHI not mentioned anywhere on the MHDC website?
Sometimes you just can't see the forest for the trees. Sometimes people try to walk through the forest with their eyes closed, only to run into the trees. 
OK, I'll concede Paul, that there is a page accessible now, at a different address - but how does any of the following information (quoted from the address above) qualify NACHI as an "Approved Certifying Agency?"
It's like when the Governor of a State enacts legislation which has nothing to do with NACHI specifically, but which Nick is however in favour of... and then Nick spins a press release to make it sound like the Governor of that State signed some new "NACHI Legislation."
It's misleading and purposely designed to give the appearance that NACHI wields power and influence at the legislative level. Meanwhile the only people influenced are entry-level home inspectors, led to believe they are joining an "Approved Certifying Agency."
And you guys.
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Certified Housing Inspectors
Borrowers should obtain a detailed home inspection of the property. MHDC does not maintain lists of approved home inspectors but lists of certified inspectors can be obtained through the following organizations. Each organization has a searchable database with searches by ZIP code or large city name.
American Society of Home Inspectors ? (ASHI)
http://www.ashi.org/ - search engine to find a certified home inspector (by ZIP code)
