Originally Posted By: justin This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hello, I am new to NACHI great site, I am trying to start my own home inspection business in KANSAS. I took the NACHI exam and passed. My question now is do I, or should I, go to any schooling? or take the NACHI cert. and run with it. All your info would be great help. Thank you
Originally Posted By: jmertins This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Justin,
You can never have a enough education. This industry will be forever changing and we all must keep up. As Gerry Beaumont says "Education is a journey not a destination"
Originally Posted By: mcyr This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi. Justin and welcome to the team of NACHI.
I believe everyone is here to help you in whatsoever endeavor you may have.
Let me tell you that you are never to old to learn, and when you think you know it all, it is time for you to stay home and out of work. It will never happen that you know it all, so face it, and engorge all the information available to make you a better person, and Inspector.
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Five (5) Inspections a day. Per BS. Cheap quickie inspectors (Individual) can do it, IF (and that's a very big IF) they can get 5 people a day to call them. At least until they screw up so bad they get sued out of business.
Have enough money on the side, or a side job, to last you thru the first three years.
Plan on doing a lot of travelling to Great Bend, Salina, Hutchinson and maybe even Garden City a lot for marketing and inspecting.
Real hard to live on an HI Income in a rural area like yours. Hays population is around 19,000 isn't it.
Might want to do some research thru the local realtor's associations to find out how many home sales there are in a year and compare that to how many inspectors are already available to do them.
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Justin,
I don't know anything about PITI so I went to their website.
One incongruity I noted, you might want to compare some of the PITI website language about small classes & personal attention with some of the classroom pictures on the website.
Originally Posted By: dbowers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
3 or 4 inspectors that I know of that took other schools training courses and didn’t feel they learned enough to get going in this business.
AND by the same token we've had 2 or 3 students over the past several years - not study, spend all their time in the hall smoking or gabbing on their cell phones, antagonize other students or instructors and as a result do poorly and not really get well grounded in OUR classes. They would then go take someone elses class and perhaps have a better match of personality or ..................!!
We've trained a lot of people including other trainers.
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Thanks for splaining that Dan. Had me wondering. 6-8 is a good number. Had one of those cell phone using, hall smoking, instructor antagonizing guys in my class.
If I remember right, he left involuntarily after a day or so.
Do you know the success ratio of those guys out around Justin's location that you taught, i.e. how many are still in business?
Originally Posted By: justin This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Wow thanks a ton guys, I have been looking into the midwest school. Dan I will look at your site also. Again thanks a lot, racking my brain trying to decide what school to attend this is helping a lot, thanks for your info. TY
Originally Posted By: Erica Gelb This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi Justin,
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Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Justin,
If you're still looking at doing it, get a hold of Matthew Metzger down in Garden City, KS. He's quitting and selling a bunch of stuff. Maybe you can get a deal.
Originally Posted By: dbowers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Erby -
I once had a competitor tell potential students that he had a 100% success rate with his students passing the ASHI or NHIE Exam.
I had a good laugh as I'd had 3 or 4 of his schools past students fail the exams multiple times and come to us for the training needed to pass.
Last Christmas I was in Dallas and ran into one of the Instructors of the largest HI Training Schools in the country. We ended up having dinner and discussing shop. We had just decided to start tracking past students and I asked him if they did that also.
He said they did AND they discovered that about 60% of the people they train either never get started OR fail in the 1st year. I hope this helps.
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
But Dan,
They did pass, finally! Right? So the competitor "was" telling the truth! Just shading the hell out of it.
I didn't think the NHIE was any great difficulty. Took it three weeks after leaving Midwest Inspectors Institute.
Those tracking results pretty much jibe with what I've heard from some other teachers of the trade. It's amazing how many people pay for schooling, buy a bunch of tools & reference stuff, realize that's its not all that easy to get the $500 - $800 a day EVERY DAY, (or even most days) and decide to quit.
While its too bad for them that they had to spend money to find out, I guess its good for you. Keeps food on the table, huh.
I wonder how many of the 40% are still in business four years down the road.
I venture about 10% of the original 100% are still around in business.
Originally Posted By: dbowers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Erby -
One of the things I still find so amazing about our business, is that we can put a guy or gal with no background at all in construction or the trades through a 2 week class - and have them pass the NAHI CRI Exam or a state exam, or the ASHI offshoot (the NHIE) a week later with no trouble.
Then we can turn right around in our next class and have a class full of people with 20 years of construction, remodeling, HVAC, electrical or engineering backgrounds - AND - they later call and tell us they've taken the NAHI CRI or NHIE or their state exam 2-3 times before passing.
The sharpest 2 trainees I've ever had were a young man with a background as a Graphic Artist AND a lady who had a PhD in Psychology.
Neither even knew which end of a hammer to hit a nail with, BUT they knew that and read and re-read every drop of study material until they ran circles around the guys with 20 years of experience in the trades.
