The thing that has really got me about the Kansas law is that it cannot be self-funded by collection of licensing fees. There is not enough home inspectors in Kansas to pay for an employee and an office properly, unless this guy is going to work and live in a van down by the river. Was this ever explained how???
No. The lawmakers on the commerce committe and ways and means were all blind to this. These laws are so bad that I cannot list all of the defects here. The board, rules, regulations, where the records are kept, offices, bank accounts, private application information, rights to invade a home inspector’s home on a whim by ANY board member, members themselves, the way Senator Wysong addressed the Kansas congress on the last day to try to get the limits of liability changed (and according to the congressional congress secretary the Senators comments did not get into the final bill), board members have performed few, if any, inspections in the last 12 months, board members having rights to set any educational requirements, and fees for them, as they see fit, (this is why they do not want NACHI involved with their free CE’s), an unethical Wichita attorney who claimes he is “vice-chairman” to try to market himself for the good of him, $10,000 surety bond to be held “by the board” if the inspector cannot get E&O insurance, on and on and on.
I have tried to explain all of this to the lawmakers of Kansas, but it seams that they want this to happen. Media does not want to broadcast stories affiliated with agents because they fear the losing of advertising.
This board, the home inspection laws of Kansas, the board members, the lawmakers themseleves need a good, honest home (attorney general, KBI, Governor office investigation) inspection so the defects will be revealed and documented.
By the way, I did get about one cent of my two cents worth of complaining about the laws on my radio show this afternoon. I hope some people were listening. I mentioned the hearing in Topeka this Friday. Andrew Bash, with the Bash Group of Prudential Kansas City Realty and I had an interesting discussion off the air. His group is top 13 in sales in KC, and he had no idea of licensing. I told him in about two minutes what I thought, and he was very surprised. It seams that RE’s in Kansas are not informed of what is really happening, or is about to happen. Perhaps Mr. Bell and his KAR want it that way.
MAR is the same way. Missouri Realtors have no idea what is going on in their own organization. Even the Realtors who volunteer to work in their PAC. MAR lies to them and they believe it. Sad but true.
Without proper funding this law will be even a worse three-ring circus then it is now. I guess the big show will be in the middle ring beginning January.
Gary -
Actually I raised the funding issue with various Senators like Karen Brownlee; Susan Waggle; David Wyson; and Tom Holland over the past 3 years. However the Realtors Lobbyist (Luke Bell) and the KAREI President (Jeff Barnes) testified and told the legislators on numerous occasions that they had checked with other SMALL boards around Kansas and the Home Inspectors Board could easily be run for $20,000 to $40,000 and would be SELF-FUNDED by the HI’s fees ($200 x 200-300 Inspectors).
I continually told the legislators that I had checked with Home Inspection Boards in many other states (like Oklahoma, Arkansas, Wisconcin, etc) and been COMPLETELY assured by those groups that $80,000 - $100,000 was the bare minimun need to run a SMALL Board.
No real fiscal study was ever done - Just guesstimates mostly based upon false or uninformed testimony of the people pushing licensure.
Are there still even 200 inspectors left in this state?
I heard maybe even less. I guess we will find out in January.
Realtors are leaving the industry in droves; they cannot afford their renewal fees that come due in January. Two offices up north have lost over 100 agents in the last month, and sold to Prudential KC.
Inspectors are also broke everywhere. Dan and I are getting there fast.
I notice a lot of activity on my website from Topeka, KS and from Overland Park, KS, today.
Could the media that I have been speaking with be disturbing some people with pointed questions? Film at eleven.
Good question, James. This can, and could be, a big regional story, and could go nationwide with the former Governor of Kansas now in Washington. She signed the piece of bull pucky laws just hours before resigning. Now, she is involved with national health care? The parallels are obvious.
You’re right, Gary. I see the connection.
First, she signed the bill into law…then…the swine flew.
Damn that is Hilarious----:lol:
Now Gary I know you’re upset, but obama would never appoint anyone that’s shady! 
BTW, I don’t know if you’re going to move to Arizona or not, but tell Dale to hold the phone…cause Marxism is on it’s way there soon. Fact of Irony; OBama’s mama was born in Kansas too Toto, so follow the yellow brick road to Washington District of Communism! 
If cap and trade passes, all state home inspection laws will be out the window. I stated this months ago in another thread. All “inspectors” will be working for the EPA, under the guize of the federal government. When home owners walk away from their homes, because they are worth less than their mortgage plus the “energy up-grades” needed, any US citizen will no longer own a home. The government will own them all, and the government will own of the loan companies and banks that are stuck with trillions of dollars of debt because the owners walked. We will all be renters, and all independent home inspectors will be out of business. States will be bankrupt, along with all real estate agents. The KAR, NAR, and all real estate associations better wake up, and rethink what they are trying to do. It is all going to back-fire on them.
What scares me is that deals will be made in Washington DC, as they were last April here in Kansas. Lawmakers will vote for cap and trade, and vote down health care. You scratch my back, I will scratch yours. The main problem is that no lawmaker nationwide is listening to the American public; only to their special interest contingents.