Originally Posted By: bmerrell
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Do you need an extra guide which was presented at the 9-1-05 meeting. I am sure that each meeting, there will always be discussion and added clarification required and if you want an extra guidebook, I have one for you at my office. Call me on Tuesday or Wednesday and you can pick it up.
Just trying to help. It includes the postponement amendment in judiciary, the regs' for the exam by outline percentage. It also includes many dos regs you should already have including the 9-21 law proposal draft and the outline draft.
Good luck at the 9-15 meeting.
With NACHI membership at 375 in new York State, NACHI is growing. It is important to work towards licensing which is perceived a positive. As you already know, there was a mass exit in appraisal associations when licensing came to Long Island. Reason, if I am licensed, why do I need an association. I don't want that to happen with the NACHI membership. Others may be harmed, but I am confident that my students will remain loyal NACHI members due to the multitude of information and documents they can received from being a member.
I am concerned that this message board is free and open to all persons and everyone has the right to speak your mind, and explain your position. That should apply to everyone then. Free speech lives in America, but not at the expense of any member or any individual.
Negative comments are no place for a public message board, wheras someone with limited information applies this information, and takes it to a new level of misinformation.
Just like you thought that the 9-1 meeting as about my school. You learned that was false. But the damage had already been done. The message board indicated 2 years as the minimum requirement for grandfathering and now we find, from the State of NY directly that that is untrue. Within 2 years can be less than 1 year as long as an inspector has completed 100 inspections which can be proven.
I, myself was fearful due to my disability that I may not qualify under the law, since the majority of inspections were done personally by me years ago. Now I find that this may not be the case at all. I reinspected many homes already performed as a "review procedure". In fact I re-inspected and performed a new inspection to verify and validate a newbies work. Since it is a proven inspection, paid for a done by me, it may count.
Other questions which I have already sent to the DOS are as follows:
Will draw inspections count towards licensing? They they do not, are then those individual exempt from the law.
Will Insurance inspections count towards licensing? If they do not, are then those individual exempt from the law.
Will HUD 203K inspections for repair count towards licensing? If not are then those individuals exempt from the law.
Will repairs required prior to a closing in which a bank hires an inspector to verify work completed be accepted as credit towards licensing? If not are then those individuals exempt from the laws.
These are major inspection areas. If they are not accepted for credit, then the performance of these items will be exempt as well. This must be addressed before the licensing come into place.
My motives have been questioned, but my knowledge had not by the 9-1 meeting participants who read all the work and energy and all the DOS and GORR communications as well as the postponement amendment which no one was notified about. The DOS told me about it, and as such it became a topic of conversation and every inspector who wants to make sure that this process of licensing becomes a smooth process, should request the postponement via their assembly or senator. Only via the rank in file members getting on board will make a difference.
If you want any additional docs I have, let me know and I will be happy to supply it to you. Much luck at the 9-15 meeting. I know that the new information will not be ready until the 24th so, next months will be the really important one.
All the best- Have a great meeting.
Bill Merrell- Fellow NACHI member