She could have COLLECTED it in the Name of FL NACHI, NACHI, INACHI, SCRATCHY, PATCHY…
So where the money goes is of no consequence if its not done legally…right?
Why would InterNACHI collect it? InterNACHI didn’t pay all the costs to set up and administer the exam.
Would you like a breakdown of where the $ goes?
Nope…I guess if it not legal then it really means nothing…
It is legal. A human being is a legal entity and can collect money.
Anyway, if you are ever worried that someone is getting rich on that $65 you mention, let me know and I’ll refer you to our member’s alternative $300 NHIE.
And BTW: The real winners were our members who saved $235 EACH! You’ll have to email or call each member to ask them what they did with the $235 they made on Zoe’s test, because InterNACHI doesn’t keep that data.
nope the winners are Nick and Zoe…wrap it up anyway you want…
And NO a person cannot just collect money from individuals without being a legal COMPANY…
I think you know that…
You have turned your back on the people who built the profession in order to get the newbie money. Well you got it, but when the newbies go bye bye don’t expect those you turned your back on to be there for you…
Russell, How do you say stuff like that over and over with a straight face? I find it difficult to say really stupid stuff like “The earth is flat” or *“a person cannot just collect money from individuals without being a legal COMPANY” or “The moon is made of cheese” *without feeling really dumb.
Keep giggling…I find it kinda funny you put your FL NACHI in the name of a person who doesn’t even have a legal Home Inspection Company…way to screen your people. Make me giggle.
One cannot provide services and collect money from people without being a legal entity such as a business. Laugh away…I wonder if the Attorney General will laugh…
Wrong… and even worse… dumb. C’mon, this is a public forum. I don’t want consumers or REALTORs seeing a member talk so dumb.
I bet you don’t…
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Ah, the long-list-of-irrelevant-links trick. Are you going to tell us which link supports your goofy claim?
Well Nick my “goofy” claim that you have to be a “legititmate” business and pay taxes and all that “goofy” stuff is just CRAZY…I know…I am out of my head at times.
That was taken from the FLORIDA SUN BIZ website on what it takes to become a legitimate company. CRAZY, CRAZY, CRAZY thats me…
So you wanting to “trade” the contractor fixing the stuff for extending the grandfathering has NOTHING to do with you making more money…I know that’s CRAZY Russ talking again…
I’m not in favor of extending grandfathering in any state, but it isn’t my main worry. In Florida, the difference in requirements between grandfathering and licensing is only 96 hours of education. Both still have to do background checks, take a proctored exam, get their fingerprints taken, pay the licensing fee, buy insurance, etc. If someone wants a license, they are going to get it.
I need to look 5 and 10 years out, long after grandfathering ends.
My main issue is contractors offering services to repair defects they find on inspections.
I am with you 110% on the no more grandfathering thing, it was an utter disaster for our profession and one we will most likely not recover from any time soon.
But… I can’t ever recall referring defects to be repaired by a General Contractor, no even once. Let the general contractors have their “repair clause”. Nothing is more detrimental than flooding the market with uneducated & inexperienced license holders, nothing.
Excellent post.
One other point I would like to add.
If licensing is a good idea…grandfathering ruins it. If you need licensing to protect the consumer…grandfathering is a contradiction. Making a law that presumably governs the profession…then flooding it with people for 1 to 2 years who bypass the screening process, reverses any possible gains from having a licensing law in the first place.
If, on the other hand, grandfathering is a good idea…then it is obvious that licensing is not necessary. Why have a screening process…and open it up for 1 to 2 years for anyone and his brother to bypass it?
To have both is like being a restaraunt worker who washes his hands, takes a crap, wipes his butt and serves your food…in that order.
I don’t think that the licensing juggernaut can be stopped. Go on any dotgov website in this nation and marvel at the sheer number of activities that require a license. Bureaucrats love nothing more than regulating people’s lives and livelihoods and regulatory boards are handy patronage plums to hand out to party apparatchiks.
Hence, I think that opposing licensing, particularly once it is law, is a fool’s errand. A more efficacious strategy for licensing opponents, I believe, is to fight to get a seat at the table to keep the regulators from getting carried away with such arrant nonsense as preposterously long statutes of limitation; mandating absurd insurance requirements; investing boards with too much power over individuals; adopting bizarro SOPs and the like.
That, I think, is where opponents should concentrate their efforts.
Yep, kinda like trying to change the pedigree after the neighborhood mutt got inside the fence with little FiFi.
As we can see clearly here just on this board, there are opinions all over the spectrum as to what to do. Some still want licensing (especially after a couple of thousand have already jumped backwards through their own grommet to get one), some do not, some want GCs to do all inspections, some want all GCs to die a horrible death involving diarrhea and some just want to know what the hell is going on. For many, just as the deadline is getting ready to expire, the “opposition” for lack of a better word, wants to change the rules to their advantage. It appears from my viewpoint we are attempting to mix the existing issues, which will send a very confusing message to the legislators as well as the public.
If the Governor has put a moratorium on rule changes, their attempt to change the grandfathering deadline may be moot. Perhaps reminding them of this may be enough to quell any attempts. Everyone should be contacting their reps to let them know but there needs to be a concerted voice in AGREEMENT. Not a mess of mismatched issues and disjointed comments. If they plan to repeal a host of licensing requirements, that too will be some time down the road, giving Home Inspectors time to get their **** together.