My Thoughts on... SB396

[jbushart (James H. Bushart)]

@gbell

Just to clarify Grandfathering will be extended until July 2012.

They have no idea when we will have a SOP.

I wish that I could sell a piece of paper for hundreds of thousands of dollars and then make the paper useless.

So…let me get this straight.

The poor home buyers of Florida are about to be inundated with inexperienced instant licensees who have never inspected a home…who will also have no standards with which to inspect by.

Boy. What did the citizens of Florida do to upset your lawmakers to the extent that they would create such potential for their financial ruin?

[jbushart (James H. Bushart)]

@gromicko

This has a good chance of getting repealed entirely, which I would most definitely be in favor of.

Are you being proactive in this regard?

[phalstead (Preston Halstead, HI549)]

@jbushart

I agree, Joe.

By extending grandfathering for another year, the damage already caused by allowing people with no experience at all in home inspections to be licensed will be compounded by such a degree that irreparable damage to the industry will be so severe that national attention brought to it can be harmful to all of us…everywhere.

In other words, the dumbing down of our profession in Florida will be taken to a level below “retardation” to such a degree that it can soon become the subject of national news magazines.

We don’t need that and we all have a stake in this.

Nick Gromicko represents the most populated national association in Florida…as well as the largest association of home inspectors in the United States. He needs to immediately act to preserve our entire profession from further harm.

Let the General Contractors fix what they inspect. Who in the world calls a “general contractor” to fix their plumbing, anyway?

What can those of us outside the state do to help you kill this bill, Joe?

Well said. Leave repair clause and keep licensing …

[dedwards (Doug Edwards)]

I suspect a lot of the newly licensed will be out the inspecting business before too long. As usual there is a rush to get an easy license so one can claim sudden credibility (that one always makes me laugh) only to sit by the phone playing cards on the computer waiting for the price shopper calls to roll in. I know for a fact there are more than a few local inspectors who are either getting out of the business or already out. Thousands of vacant houses sitting on the market (at least here locally) but most people are now renting due to the uncertainty of the economy. No one has a handle on when it will turn around. Like Joe B. said the other day, hope you got a war chest and something to do in the meantime.