Licensing solves nothing.
An inspector in New Jersey inspects the home of a state senator who claims the inspector cost him $30,000 in repairs. The senator writes a bill and passes it and it becomes (until amended a year later) the harshest and toughest HI law on the books. Under the new law, among the inspectors who received the first 10 licenses, was the inspector who inspected the senator’s house.
In Massachusetts, the ASHI proponents pushing for a law in their state took an inspector to the media who had been sued over a dozen times for negligence in his inspections. The media played this guy up as the biggest buffoon to ever be a home inspector and he became the Massachusetts “poster child” for the need of a licensing law. The law passed. The inspectors for the licensing board were selected and appointed and…guess who got a seat on the first licensing board. Yep…the Poster Child.
Licensing solves nothing.