Just an FYI, I had an agent call me saying that I can’t use her photo for inclusion in the Spectora Home Inspection report as she doesn’t own it. It was owned by Castle and Cooke and they don’t approve of it being included in the report. So I promptly removed her photo and her contact info from the report.
Never had an agent or company not want free advertising…
The agents name and number is added as a courtesy for the client only. I would never put an agent’s 20 year old photo in the report. Nor do I keep their photos. Who cares about the agent or what they want?
For some reason, most of my jobs come from agents looking for an inspector for their clients as opposed to the client calling me, so I like to include the agent on the inspection…as long as they don’t say Im violating a copyright!..
Gotta say that I never even thought of putting an agent’s photo in anything. I don’t even name the agent in the report. I have a line in the agreement authorizing the client’s agent to receive a copy of the report and that is it.
For those paying attention since the creation of Spectora, that was their prime objective from the onset… sukking up to realtors.
How many know the history of how Kevin (Spectora) got it’s foot in the “H.I.” door? They posted on Thornberries MB asking questions and inquiring what Thornberry cult members wanted to see in a mobile software report. They told him what they wanted, (realtor juice as candy bowls were outdated) and they delivered the goods. Now put 2 and 2 together and you have what just happened in this thread. Realtors getting pissed off!
As for my reports, the only names ever mentioned are my companies and the Clients. There is NO reason for a realtors name to EVER be on a report!