Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko
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I don’t know what the crack about mousepads was about but NACHI doesn’t mail out NACHI mousepads (promotion
#1) to individual members and never has. Never.
#1 is solely to promote NACHI’s membership, not any one NACHI member. Member’s mousepads (promotion
#2) aren’t even shipped here. They are drop shipped directly to the member who ordered them and who has their own business’ contact information on them. Obviously the ones with the member’s OWN contact information on them (
#2), promoting that member, not NACHI as a whole, are by far the most popular. Read
http://www.nachi.org/mousepad.htm #2. Promotion
#2 is 30 times more popular than promotion
#1 because members can put their own contact information on them and deliver them where to whom they think best, in person. Mousepad promotion
#2 (which is 95%+ of all mousepads we’ve ever done) has probably put 70,000 mousepads in the field! That is a lot of mousepads and it continues to be one of NACHI’s strongest and longest running promotions. I don’t see it ever ending. And although we don’t keep track of the manufacturers that members order these from (most find their own they like)… I have NO complaints, not one, from any member saying they didn’t get their order filled. Not one. If one member didn’t get their order believe me… I’d tell everyone. It never happened.
As for getting sued... bring it on. We have in-house counsel sitting around with nothing to do. I don't know where Erol got that quote about NACHI not having any money. We're probably the most financially successful trade association in the world next to AARP. We'd never lose that suit and counsel says "go." Besides, ambulance chasers, or inspector chasers can already determine which inspectors are likely to carry insurance by the state they are in. Furthermore, no attorney can find out who that inspector's clients were to send them a "were you unhappy with your home inspector" letter anyway. They can find the inspectors anyway. They can find the clients anyway. The new insurance verification site would not match the two up for them. In other words, it gives inspector-chasing attorneys no additional or new information.
As for why a non-member would want to participate in this free listing... trust me on this one. The state governement as Dan points out does almost NO marketing. I think I can find someone at NACHI who will market the living heck out of this to every REALTOR and consumer in the state of AZ  . Hm. I wonder who has such marketing savvy?  Anyway, one real estate agency already agreed to put a link to in on every one of their websites once we get it up. NACHI really is becoming the industry association.
As for verification, FREA's Chris Butler just got off the phone with me. He called me at home tonight. He tells me there is no privacy issue for FREA or any other agency to verify an inspector's insurance. I'll figure out a way to have it done electronically soon so we don't have to audit inspectors just like we did with
http://www.nachi.org/webseal.htm If Dan or any othere insured inspector doesn't wish to participate... fine...More business for the rest of us. Anyway... Chris Butler is up for helping us with this.
It's a go!
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Nick Gromicko
Founder
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