Does anyone know of adult scholarships or grants I could apply for to get my license?
I’m pretty far into my course and the cost of the training is a tough barrier for me.
Thanks!
I am not familiar with any scholarships or grants.
What was the culmination of this “training" for you 2+ years ago?
Still working on it. That’s why I’m asking about scholarships etc. pretty much done with the course work.
I have 2 young kids work full time and had to switch jobs abruptly last year. So got delayed a bit.
Looking to start my “apprentice hours” now. Will have time in the fall around school to do them this year now that life has settled again.
Any advice is appreciated
Thanks!
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Afternoon, Larry, Hope to find you well.
Doesn’t InterNACHI® and Nick Gromicko operate a scholarship program for college-age children of members?
Greetings Robert. Anthony is not the child of a member, and he is not a college-bound teenager. He wants to become a home inspector.
Like Larry, I am not aware of any free money available to help his situation.
Hey Anthony,
There may be a local CMI’s willing to help you get your 100 supervised inspections for simply being helpful on the job site. Call around. Be willing to drive more than 50 miles from your house for these jobs.
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Anthony, you may want to contact some Mentors, CMIs or CPIs within 80 to 100 miles, or closer, to your area and communicate with them. Maybe one, or more, will help you. Be discerning, as some inspectors feel as though they are training their competition by ride-alongs or mentoring or hiring and some are into it just for the $.
Here is the link for Mentors: https://www.nachi.org/mentoring and InterNACHI® - International Association of Certified Home Inspectors and https://ccpia.org/commercial-property-inspector-mentoring/ and https://ccpia.org/find-a-mentor/
And the link for CMIs: https://certifiedmasterinspector.org/members
And the link for CPIs: https://www.nachi.org/certified-inspectors
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Go to your County Community College. They have programs (State Funded) to provide scholarships, grants (non-refundable) for selected groups (i.e. senior citizens, low income households…). In Maryland, Community Colleges group all their Home Inspection Pre-Licensing applications and concentrate all counties in one location for cost effectiveness. I started my pre-licensing training with a cohort group of 60+ fellows. About 35 finished the program. About 20 and some change passed the National Rest on the first try.
The Tuition and Fees are divided onto two separate categories. I was lucky enough to get separate grants for both. Technically I only paid for my Carlson Horizon Home Inspection Textbook about $100 bucks. What lead to me using their Horizon Operations Software, awesome platform! and of course my Tool Set which I had a lot of tool’s already, but up to this point I probably have added close to $5,000 in tools. Most of them are not necessary, but they are nice to have.
I just found the Textbook discounted on Google.
No better reference bibliography is available..! And the Horizon Software has all thousands of illustrations from the book linked to associate with your reports side-by-side with your field pictures in one Clic!
Thank you all for you advice, I have an inspector I am excited to work with. He already acts as a mentor and sits on the board for our local Home inspector association. I feel his time and training is worth the investment. I am just hoping to find some grant or scholarship money to help with the cost.
I’ll keep looking and let y’all know if I find anything.
Cheers
I had a student that had “Native American” heritage and their education was paid for by the Tribe. He was not required to live on tribal land. His Tribal Land was in Oklahoma, he lived here in upstate New York.