raises pre-licensing education to 200 hours?
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If it would help the industry by having more qualified inspectors out of the gate, then I’m all for it, but IMO, just as important is also the quality of the education as much as is it the number of required hours.
I know all courses are required to be pre-approved before being allowed to be used towards one obtaining a HI license in Ohio, and personally I think they do a good job of vetting.
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If I were running a multi-inspector group and constantly needed newly minted inspection form fillers, I would be against the 200 hour initiative. But I’m a soloist, so, thinking selfishly, I’m all for a higher barrier to entry. Go for it.
I have a problem with regulation of trades in general. I think that the public tends to accept state sanction of a licensed person as a level set. If you have the state’s stamp, you’re an inspector and that’s all I need to trust you. It proceduralizes the entry into the profession and the minimum becomes the norm as a result. But that bridge is already crossed.
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IMO. It is a good idea and ditto what Kevin said.
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How about more approved courses to meet the ongoing CE criteria?
Well, we already have 626 hours of online continuing education approved by Ohio: Free Home Inspector Training Courses & Online Classes - InterNACHI®
Or do you mean Ohio should require more CE?
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Now I’m wondering, if you were to get them to raise the pre-licensing EDU requirement to 200 hrs, if that would have any affect on, or raise the required number of CE hrs. 
Well, I could do that. But CE isn’t our industry’s problem in great part thanks to InterNACHI. Back in the day, we used to just take the minimum amount of CE required by the state because approved CE wasn’t online or free. It cost time from work and money to fulfill your state CE requirements. But now with InterNACHI, you can take hundreds of courses in your pajamas for free. So the average inspector has completed way more CE than their state mandates.
I think the problem, especially in Ohio, is low pre-licensing requirements.
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