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Do you?NACHI have an official position on this bill (SB 638)? Specifically, the mandatory requirement for home inspectors to purchase E & O insurance?
It’s our Bill. Our paid lobbyist wrote it for us. Members of SUNachi overwhelmingly wanted me to put through legislation to deter the flood of new inspectors entering the business. So we added E&O and increased pre-licensing from 120 to 200 hours.
I am shocked that you would do that. I have no problem with increasing education requirements. I do however, have an issue with Mandatory E& O insurance. It is akin to forcing Americans to buy health insurance (Obamacare). With this language, you are removing MY choice in obtaining the additional insurance. Any way we can soften that position? (meaning remove the E&O mandate)
Bro…, despite www.SUNachi.org being totally free (no dues ever) you aren’t even a member. Did you visit the SUNachi booth at the recent Florida Convention and talk to our President? The convention was in your neighborhood. Did you even attend?
Your first step, if you truly want become involved in Florida, is to join. It’s free forever.
Come on Nick, You know I have been a NACHI member in Florida for over 23 years and was very involved in the creation of the licensing here. You also know I was heavily involved in NACHI up here in NE Florida for years. I think I’ve earned the right to have an opinion- And a voice.
Join us. It’s free: www.SUNachi.org.
Ok I did. Now can we discuss removing the E & O mandate?
Some sort of extortion, apparently. Not allowed to ask questions unless you join yet another club.
I don’t really see it as extortion as it free to join the chapter or club, but rather Nick just being Nick. The real issue for me is the mandated E& O insurance. That is completely unacceptable to me and akin to the Insurance Mafia requiring protection money for me to run my own business.
I’m a state licensed mold assessor. Guess what?
The included requirements are $1,000,000 E&O. I’m not surprised.
Yep. What is your better idea for deterring people from going into the inspection business in Florida part-time?
Correct, If you want to have a say in what SUNachi does, you have to at least join. But let me start by asking a couple questions:
- How are we “extorting?” SUNachi is free. No dues ever.
- What is your plan for deterring part-timers from flooding the inspection profession in Florida.
Answer using my numbering system above please.
Yep. I’m also a Florida state licensed mold assessor and every fellow assessor I talk to is pleased that it isn’t lickety-split easy to become one.
Because it isn’t. Here is the definition of extortion:
ex·tor·tion: noun the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
SUNachi is free, always has been free, no annual dues ever.
OK.
An education provider is asking the State to increase the minimum number of education hours to obtain a license.
An insurance salesman/company (or whatever name you wish to give it) is asking the State to increase, or add additional insurance, requirements to obtain/maintain a license.
I agree.
Look at our Florida homeowners insurance crisis right now.
Imagine a day when the $2000/year E&O shoots up to $6000/year (like we’ve seen happen in other insurance markets). Then what? Oh well, the only winner is the insurance company, not the insured. Guess who that is.
More accurately: The only U.S. Department of Education-accredited “eduction provider” who charges a whopping $0.00 for each course is asking the state to help stop the inflow of poorly-educated part-timers from getting the very same state-issued credential (a state license) that you have, so that they don’t compete with you, despite it meaning less membership revenue for InterNACHI.
Is that a more accurate way of putting it?
In other words, InterNACHI is harming itself financially to help you financially.
Yes?
No, you conveniently left out the annual fee to get the “whopping $0.00 course”…