How would Home Inspector licensing and enforcement be administered without a “board”?
CILB or our great court system
So we want the CILB to enforce our rules?
If a board is the solution… someone tell me what the problem is.
This whole “Mommy, Mommy… We want a seat at the table so our voices are heard” thing ain’t for me. We already got everything we asked for from the state government in Florida. What else do you want?
Thanks for proving my point, you have no idea what the problems are. Stick with running NACHI your doing an awesome job.
We got what YOU asked for not what HOME INSPECTORS asked for.
BTW thanks for taking 6 months of total BS in helping an inspector get their money. I bet it never happens. Why did it take a guy from India for you to do anything? I will tell you why, there was nothing in it for Nick.
There ya go. You’re unable to say specifically what it is out there that you want that only a board could acquire for you.
If it’s just a seat where you can feel powerful… buy a King’s chair at your local antique store and put a cardboard Burger King crown on your head.
LMAO…Nick as always you have no idea what has been going on. Organizations are trying to circumvent the license and be exempt from it. That may not be a big thing for you, but it is for me.
Once again, your ignorace is equal to your arrogance.
I personally think your against it, because sooner or later with licensing in Florida your numbers will greatly dwindle and your small lil empire will be smaller than it is today. Want to bet that in 3 years the total number of Florida NACHI members decreases by at least 25%?
Please tell me where I said the seat was for me? Please find that exact post and please send me the link. You can’t because no where has that been said. You post items that LEAD people to think I said something. Know why I am the legislative representative? NO ONE WANTED IT!..It was vacant and no one would volunteer for it. So instead of it sitting vancant and doing nothing, I decided it would be best to keep the members informed.
You’re so against the board and when your against something it always makes me thing…whats in it for NICK. Look at the side of the road, there are a ton of past people that believed in you and you shat upon them.
Do what you do well and run NACHI, leave Florida to Florida Inspectors.
You left out DBPR as an option. Aren’t there currently administering the home inspector licensing program?
Gentlemen, and some ladies, the home inspector licensing law is relatively new in Florida. As such, it is a developing “regulated industry”. As with all newly regulated industries, there will be growing pains and issues that arise during the evolution and development of the industry. Rather than jumping into a rash decision that may have negative consequences for our profession for a long time, why don’t we proceed slowly, diligently, and with caution. The Board concept may be the way to go - provided we have all the possible consequences and unintended consequences discovered before we proceed. Or, by proceeding slowly and cautiously, we may reach the conclusion that there is no need for a board. Again, all I am suggesting is that we proceed deliberately and with caution.
What do you specifically want that you’d be willing to give representatives from the insurance industry, the real estate industry and the contracting industry influence over us?
I can probably get you whatever you want… what is it? The state agencies have always granted us our every wish.
So we want the CILB to enforce our rules?
Not what I said. It was an answer to a question. CILB, without any admin/legislative rules, would eventually be the enforcement agency/board involving a HI as a licensee of the DBPR.
Home inspectors do not want to establish boards to be to be governed by them.
Home inspectors who want to govern other home inspectors want to establish boards to govern them.
Remember … for this is the key to the entire issue … It was not the Florida consumer that lobbied for a home inspector licensing law. It was a law purchased by home inspectors who wanted to govern other home inspectors.
Granted … through the legislative process, the original bill was stripped and watered down to a meaningless drab that does nothing more than generate revenue for the state. It doesn’t even closely resemble the intended law that those pushing for it intended to have passed.
Now … those who brought you licensing want to bring you the licensing board.
As one of the FABI leaders said in a meeting that he thought was private and that all attendees could be trusted, the objective was to get anything into law so that it could be later “tweaked” to meet their agenda.
The home inspectors who are not destined to serve on the licensing board have as much control over their business as did the prisoners in Auschwitz.
Just bend over and spread your cheeks, boys. Your profession is in the hands of your legislators, now … and those who control them. You will not match the spending power of your lobbiest competition and the “seat at the table” you are seeking is one in the back of the diner, near the restrooms and kitchen and where the waiter never looks.
Licensing solves nothing.
I would never in my life rest with one guy calling the shots. Talk about a guy on a power trip wanting to be king! Holy crap you take the cake. I want FLORIDA inspectors to decide its fate the best it can.
You can’t get what we want, you already failed numerous times. Is NACHI one of the three compaies doing the re-inspections? Nope…Failure.
Did you seek out more stringent guidelines or guidelines that lead to more inspectors and more NACHI members? Failure again to the public and in the industry, but a plus for you and NACHI.
You are an ignorant person as to what is happening in Florida and its not ONLY about what we want, its about STOPPING people and other professions from attacking us. Its about defense as well as offense.
I sit in meeting with people from ALL organizations that meet and work towards the betterment of the profession, not the betterment of an organization.
You run one hell of an education organization and have done wonders in that arena. Thats as far as it goes with me. Your a great guy, but your not going to hold my profession in my state hostage to your wants and demands.
For those who do not see that a person wanting to ADD people to the industry is BAD for the industry is, well, not too bright. Its always about numbers, lets me about quality.
Good post Jim.
Russell writes:
You mean leave it to a board made up of a real estate agent, an insurance agent, a contractor, a representative from a known diploma mill, and a representative from a home inspector association with 14 members? LOL. No, I think I’ll stick around in Florida and continue helping InterNACHI’s 1,700 members there.
The more I read the arguments favoring a “home inspector” licensing board, I am reading where the concern has nothing at all to do with actual “home inspections”. Instead, it has to do with ancillary services (i.e. “re-inspections”).
WTF? Are these guys really proposing selling out the entire profession for a $75 add-on service?
Thanks for posting that number, it would have been around 700 if it wasn’t for you “helping” us.
Wrong. We’ve been hovering around 1700 in Florida before licensing and we’re still there after licensing. Hate to break you the bad news, but inspectors join InterNACHI regardless of whether or not licensing has been adopted. I refer you to my latest thread: http://www.nachi.org/forum/f14/does-international-association-certified-home-inspectors-do-better-licensed-unlicensed-states-71389/
If we wanted opinions from realtors, insurance industry reps, DBR or contractors, we should just ask them for relative input! - Why give them a seat at the HI’s table. I have concerns about having home inspectors that hold other licenses serving on a “HI board”. Especially the scenario where the board members are contractors -inspectors.
That scenario would open the possibility of undue influence from the contractor faction. Just what there is now! Conspectors are an underlying problem, and a conflict of interest from the get go.
Remember “We do not repair what we inspect” PERIOD! NO conflict of interest. Period!
Either no board at all or just licensed HI’s as the makeup of the board. Maybe a couple (2), open non-voting seats for the above realtor or DBR or insurance adjuster. If you are looking to make friends bring you wife , neighbor or co-worker the open door meetings held every now and then.
Nick, nick, nick…your own message board proves your “facts” are, well not facts at all. Look at this post
On 25 February 2010 you bragged about topping 1100 members…hmmmm, your own message board proves your facts are well…not facts.
Just to keep until you remove it