Letter going out to all NACHI members in U.S. and Canada.

Originally Posted By: gromicko
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Dear NACHI member:


NACHI members have made www.FindanInspector.US the internet?s largest home inspection lead generator. Now help us make it the best.

If you are not both willing and able to perform home inspections please let me know so that I can remove you from www.FindanInspector.US and our many other consumer-directed websites. Perhaps you have retired or are not yet ready to offer services. Whatever the reason, we don?t want to have visitors contacting members who are either unable or unwilling to provide them with the inspection services the seek.

Reserving our consumer-directed sites exclusively for actively practicing home inspectors helps us all.

Sincerely,


Nick Gromicko
Executive Director
nick.gromicko@nachi.org


Originally Posted By: gbeaumont
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Nick,


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Good, we have too many "members" who are not active in the business, and they only dilute the leads to those members who are active, there is no point in clogging up the web sites with people who do not respond or who are unable to respond to potential clients.

get the leads to those members who can deal with them, and turn those Inquiries into satisfied NACHI customers.

Regards

Gerry


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Gerry Beaumont
NACHI Education Committee
e-mail : education@nachi.org
NACHI phone 484-429-5466

Inspection Depot Education
gbeaumont@inspectiondepot.com

"Education is a journey, not a destination"

Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Gerry:


I also have Lia calling members who have had no contact with NACHI for more than a year. In PA we are checking E&O insurance. In TX we are checking TREC numbers.

Nick


Originally Posted By: ebeahm1
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removed from the www.FindanInspector.US site. They obviously are not interested in staying educated and active. Once they are off the site, they could be put back on only if they fulfill the requirements mentioned above.


Earl


Originally Posted By: lwilliams
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There are a number of inspectors with websites indicated that site. I was surfing through them yesterday and found many of them had broken links. Those inspectors need to be contacted to fix the link or remove the website link. Is this something Lia will do? Or should someone volunteer? I will help if needed.


Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Lisa:


Chris gave Lia the list of all bad email addresses a couple weeks ago. She has been calling these members and fixing their email addresses. This will also result in these members automatically receiving an email from us asking them to check their contact information including their website if they have one.

Cleaning up.

Nick


Originally Posted By: jburkeson
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Bravo Nick,


This will add to our public persona and credibility, nothing like broken or dead links to cause customer frustration.


ebeahm1 wrote:
Nick,
If a member does not pass the mandatory yearly exam, or has not taken the Standards of Practice Quiz, or has not completed the Ethics Course or has not completed the Continuing Ed. Courses, he or she should be
automatically removed from the www.FindanInspector.US site. They obviously are not interested in staying educated and active. Once they are off the site, they could be put back on only if they fulfill the requirements mentioned above.
Earl


I also agree with Earl that those who are not current with their testing, dues or continuing education requirements should be removed from the FindAnInspector site until they are in full compliance. We should not be perceived as lax on the requirements that we have all agreed to follow.


--
Joseph Burkeson, RPI (Hooperette)

?Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Originally Posted By: jfarsetta
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Quote:
has not taken the Standards of Practice Quiz, or has not completed the Ethics Course


As of this time, these are not mandatory requirements of membership, and as such, are not in the same category as the On-line exam, and Education requirements.


--
Joe Farsetta

Illigitimi Non Carborundum
"Dont let the bastards grind you down..."

Originally Posted By: ebeahm1
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Joe,


Sorry about that! That’s for setting me straight. If that’s our minimum, maybe we should consider raising the bar.


Earl


Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Earl:


Joe misspoke. Here are our current membership requirements:

http://www.nachi.org/membership.htm

The SOP Quiz and Ethics Obstacle Course have been a membership requirement since the end of summer 2003. However, unlike the exam, you need not take them every year (our SOP and COE don't change much over time).

Because all of our membership requirements must be fulfilled before one applies for NACHI membership, we didn't require existing members to go back and take the SOP Quiz or Ethics Course... only new applicants.

Additionally, the exam is currently being made better/harder and there is another new and improved exam being tested. Whatever exam version we end up with will have to be passed by new applicants of course as well as existing members once a year (our exam is a living document that keeps up with changes in the industry).

The Occupant Hazard Primer is almost done (ahead of schedule).

There is also some discussion about an online E&O insurance verification requirement for ONLY those members in states that require E&O.

Nick


Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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Good response.


Chris added a live link so that recipients can erase themselves from our consumer-related websites.

http://www.nachi.org/deadwood.htm

Nick