It will never fizzle out JJ because it will be advertised in those tens of thousands of newsletter boxes that were installed at all real estate companies… 
The more I read on this and think on it the more I like it. These are essentially “pre-listing” inspections it seems like, so it makes the homeowners feel more secure and hopefully whomever reads it will want to use you again for the final inspection for their bank. Realtors will get to view more reports from other inspectors so that is just free advertising and offering it to the realtors will just help push InterNACHI to the front of the mindset to realtors as the default association to recommend to clients . My only concern is how the inspectors will be chosen. If there are 5 InterNACHI inspectors in an area, will they be evenly cycled as jobs come in? Will CMI members get preferential amounts of work (on the one hand a great added benefit for them, but on the other hand those of us who haven’t got there yet are going to have that much harder of a time getting the required amount of inspections). Really looking forward to more information on the subject and helping market it in my area.
I don’t know how so many people keep asking this question. NACHI is not picking Inspectors. It’s up to you to offer this and the RE Agents and/or Seller to hire you.
What do you know that the rest of us don’t? This is all that we’ve been told…
Just read Nick’s post. It’s pretty straight forward.
You will advertise free pre-listing inspections. NACHI will pay you. You take work as much as your phone rings.
Thank you Nick for your answers. I appreciate your quick repsonse.
I’m just a little unclear based on these answers:
- How does the seller get their “free” inspection? Do they contact the inspector, or do they call InterNACHI and book with InterNACHI?
And if they book with InterNACHI, how do those jobs get allocated to members?
And then
12; What prevents abuse of the system? I.E. seller offers to “pay” for buyers inspection by calling for their “Free” inspection and then giving their copy to the buyer?
13: Given you had said (and my experience confirms) that doing a pre-listing inspection can often lead to a buyer waiving their inspection, how does this double the number of inspections? it seems to be it just moves the inspection from the buy side to the seller side. Why would a buyer pay $300-$500 or whatever for their own inspection if they can download a recent inspection with a Buy Back Guarantee for a mere $39?
Because we’re home inspectors.
I get paid to question the condition of properly I’m inspection and determine what the situation is, good bad or otherwise. Asking questions is how one finds answers.
Yeah, there’s that! :razz:
Nick is having a full discussion about this on Facebook check it out
Actually, per Nick’s post on facebook that’s NOT how it’s going to work
So this is for MIC inspections? What is to keep an agent from downloading the inspection and handing out copies to all of their prospects?
This will be most interesting. It looks like my association is going to begin competing with me for my clientele.
It will be fun to see how the program navigates all of the differences and idiosyncrasies of the various state laws regarding home inspections. Like California’s rule that the inspection report belongs to the house and is available as public record. It will be interesting to see how TREC would view having the inspector’s client be an entity that is not a party to the real estate transaction nor an agent, nor a consumer. Not to mention the outside pre-existing relationship that exists between the “client” (InterNACHI) and the inspector, where much-unrelated monies and benefits are exchanged separately from the consumer (read: conflict of interest). Looks like unlimited iterations of liability (one for each buyer of said report) for only a single inspection fee to the inspector without the benefit of the relationship building that typically occurs between the inspector and the consumer during the course of the inspection (the buyback guarantee means nothing to TREC when they have a consumer complaint). Kind of flies in the face of the claim that an inspection is a “snapshot in time” and that old reports should not be relied upon…
So if a particular inspector’s rates are twice the average, because the consumer is willing to pay it, will InterNACHI simply pay it? Either InterNACHI is going to control the fee structure under this arrangement (i.e., depress fees) or every inspector is going to charge super-premium fees under this structure because they don’t have to convince the consumer that they are worth it. Any time the decision to purchase a service is divorced from the cost of the service, in the absence of some external control, the cost of the service will skyrocket because the purchaser is using someone else’s money. The person ordering the inspection won’t care about the fee because it’s “FREE”.
I’m not going to lose any sleep over this one.
Nick has said they will use their fee calculator. Charges more for age distance. I’m sure it’ll be more than you already charge.
Really? What do you think I charge?
$650
I charge a flat fee of $1k for any size home up to 5k sq ft. This will work for me.
Nick said that it will work like the roof inspection program. they will notify via email, first to respond gets it.
Yeap. It will be first come, first served. So the slow, or new, inspectors that are setting around with no inspections will be the first one to responded, most of the time.
Which will make this very interesting/fun for veteran inspectors when they inspect these same homes and find a ton of items the pre-listing inspection missed.
Hopefully nothing for your sake. You want samples of your inspection reports in as many hands as possible, especially if those hands belong to consumers about to hire a home inspector in your local market. If 25 people download a report that means that at least 24 of them still need a home inspector, and now they have a copy of the product you produce as a professional in their hands with your contact info on it. Talk about target marketing for you!