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Originally Posted By: rbennett
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Mr Decker


Sort of like don't follow the wrong person. - JC might not be the savour (Nick isn't even in the running - beard too short)

Who knows

To all -- I do enjoy NACHI and all -- and lets all have a safe and prosperous new year

rlb

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Originally Posted By: rbennett
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and to you and yours - the best of the day and the upcoming year


rlb

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Originally Posted By: jeubank
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That’s kind of incredible, that an inspector would post all his clients’ names and addresses on his website. What’s the purpose? And yes, I think it’s a breach of confidentiality, and a lack of privacy.


While it's not necessary to advertise our personal beliefs, those beliefs do affect our home inspection business. They may not affect the inspection itself, or the report. A well-trained and conscientious person of any belief can do a technically good inspection job. But our beliefs definitely affect the way we conduct our business in general. A Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Humanist, a Socialist, an Atheist, a Libertarian, and a Pagan each look at the world in a different way. Their worldview will affect their home inspection business practices. Their beliefs affect how they relate with people, how they define integrity or honesty, and especially their beliefs affect why they even do this type of business.

To some clients, it won't matter. For other clients, they will pick up on your views and attitudes right away. Those clients might agree with Socrates, who said that ?an unexamined life is not worth living.? And there's certainly nothing wrong if a client discovers that I am a Christian. Again, for some clients it doesn't matter, and for others it does. I've never had a client comment to me negatively about my belief. I agree with Jae, that my faith is my joy, not my shame.

As for not trusting anyone who wears their belief on their sleeve, that's not realistic. Most people wear some kind of belief on their sleeve, whether it's Selfish-ism (all about Me) or Environmentalism. Just be careful that you're not mistrusting of some ?religions,? while you're trusting others who believe like you do. By the way, Joseph B, vulgarity is not appropriate or necessary on this message board. And I agree with William D, that Carl Sagan was incredibly, foolishly self-centered. I'm glad you have a quote from Solzhenitsyn, a fine Christian writer.

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Inspected once, inspected right throughout southern Colorado

www.eubankinspections.com

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Originally Posted By: bkelly1
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Originally Posted By: rbennett
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Looks like we all have some common ground even though it might be small


rlb

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Originally Posted By: bkelly1
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http://www.hopeforthehopeless.org/main.asp

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Originally Posted By: rbennett
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If G-D is our father in heaven then JC is our brother and that makes all of us brothers and sisters. The only problem I have is my mother as my sister and my step father as my brother and Nick is related to all of us – oh my


I love them all anyway

rlb

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Originally Posted By: jhagarty
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http://www.sacredsites.com/index.html

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Joseph Hagarty


HouseMaster / Main Line, PA
joseph.hagarty@housemaster.com
www.householdinspector.com

Phone: 610-399-9864
Fax : 610-399-9865

HouseMaster. Home inspections. Done right.

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Originally Posted By: rbennett
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Ben


And may the light shine on you and yours -- good web site

Have a good day and a good 2006

That site might be a good one to put in some of our favorite links on our HI sites

Some how I want to say that everyone is welcome

Just a good business idea

rlb

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Originally Posted By: jburkeson
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jeubank wrote:
While it's not necessary to advertise our personal beliefs, those beliefs do affect our home inspection business.


Yes I agree with you and believe that my Pragmatism dovetails quite well with this profession. Our clients recognize our ability to sift through myriad issues, dismissing wife's tails while giving them a clear almost antiseptic view of the current conditions of a home.

As far as my worldview is concerned it did not come about through any Damascus Road event (although I did loose my sight this year for a brief period), and I have studied Christian works, currently my library holds books authored by Bonnhoffer, C.S. Lewis and Reinhold Neibuhr (a fellow (Christian) Pragmatist). The way I see it is the major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is to be skeptical. I'm not any more skeptical about your religious beliefs than I am about every new scientific idea I hear about. But in our line of work, they're called hypotheses, not inspiration and not revelation.

jeubank wrote:
I'm glad you have a quote from Solzhenitsyn, a fine Christian writer.


Yes it is true that on his death-bed Solzhenitsyn was indeed a Christian (I guess that is the only time it really matters anyway) but in his lifetime, he suffered and struggled in the Gulag not for his Christian beliefs, but for his political and humanist views.

Today it is not too hard to find well-meaning devout followers of Islam willing to strap weapons of mass-destruction to their body and blow up innocent people in service to your God. Contrast that with our Commander-In-Chief who believes that he is a messenger of God living in the "Last Days" (whose generation will not pass before he comes again) and has access to "The Armageddon Button" which could end life on Earth for everyone... Well, you will just have to forgive me if my bull-s#!t meter that measures the wonderful benefits mankind has received from religion remains firmly pegged in infinity.

Being a Pragmatist I care little of anyone's opinion or feelings as they are beyond my control and life is too short. Just show me the data & results and we have a sound basis for conversation, thank you for this opportunity to share.

All the best for a happy new year.

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Joseph Burkeson, RPI (Hooperette)

?Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Originally Posted By: bkelly1
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MAURY DAVIS


Senior Pastor


Maury Davis was arrested at age eighteen for the crime of first-degree murder. Following his trial and conviction, he served eight and one-half years in the Texas Department of Corrections. During his incarceration, Maury found his Savior in Jesus Christ and led a revival among his fellow prisoners. Following his unexpected release from prison, Maury served on the pastoral staff of Calvary Temple in Irving, Texas under the leadership of Dr. J. Don George where he served as Youth Pastor. There he met and married his wife Gail, and in 1986 they became parents of triplets ? Gabrielle, Danielle, and Galen. In 1994 son, Dillon was added to their family. After five years at Calvary Temple, Maury answered the call to full-time evangelism and the young family traveled across the United States preaching at churches, youth camps, Bible schools, and speaking to teens in public schools. In 1991, after preaching one Sunday at the two-hundred fifty-member Cornerstone Church in Madison, Tennessee, Maury was offered the position of Senior Pastor. He accepted that appointment and has led Cornerstone to its current average attendance of more than two-thousand people and serves as an Executive Presbyter of the Tennessee District of the Assemblies of God. Maury simply preaches that Jesus is the answer . . . whatever the situation, whatever the problem. He has a heartfelt desire for people to understand that if God would save him, He stands ready to meet anyone, whatever their circumstances.




I would suggest anything my Maury Davis to read

Anything by John Bevere...especially "Drawing Near", "BAit Of Satan"


Rick Warren "The Purpose Driven Life"

Stephen Strang "Old Man , New Man"

Anything by Steve Hill, John Kilpatrick, and many more.



In the end , it is only you answering to God. I answer for myself, as does everyone else.

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Originally Posted By: jmichalski
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Back to the original topic, I too, am amazed that the dates, locations and other information about inspections are online and available to anyone.


I have been toying with using the HomeGauge online schedule feature which simply shows time as "available" or "booked", allowing potential clients to view possible inspection times, while protecting personal information.

On the second topic, I have to say that I live in an area where I got pretty fed up with people force-feeding me their "message". I drew the line when I got the Jesus pizza box. I wanted a few slices of pepperoni mushroom - not someone's personal testiment. There are times and places for such interaction - the delivery of a pizza, and the inspection of a home are - in my own opinion - not such times. (Needless to say, I switched pizza places.)

Good marketing is always good marketing whether you are utilizing religous, personal, political or other connections. You should not miss an opportunity to present your services to people who need them, and wherever possible, use meaningful methods (like a shared relifgious connection) to do so.

There are also inappropriate times to employ those marketing strategies that can lose you business (see the pizza box).