Brian, BC asked us to apply and we refused. Our application was never rejected, because we never submitted one and won’t ever. Our sister association CanNACHI is approved for BC licensing. We leave that to them. We prefer to do everything else: www.nachi.org/benefits.htm
As for online education, some learn best by reading… However, some learn best by watching… which is why we have the www.nachi.tvoption.
We all have to perform 30 Mentored Inspections here to get a License. 
Just because a college offers a program does not make it the best definitely not the cheapest. I did an associates degree at one college for $30,000 then went to a second college for bachelors at $10,000. Had I known better I would have done the while program at the second college and saved over $20,000.
NICK:
INACHI (YOU) left many members hanging in British Columbia. They had to join other orgs or Cannachi so they could work there and some still are not!!
From a member’s website in BC:
About me
Gone fishing
Unfortunately, I am not licensed to perform home inspections in BC and will not. When I am, I will advertise. Thank-you for looking me up though.
Anything can easily be said on these Boards…I find it very hard to believe that INACHI was “ASKED” to paticipate in BC licensing… except by the members you abandoned!!! BTW, Cannachi was not approved by BC when the regulations first came into effect but only about a year later…someone dropped the ball on that one.
Cannachi had to be set up as INACHI “certification” was not “rigorous and defendable”
Got any paperwork on the alleged request from British Columbia?
It is this Carson Dunlop course that is taught through the Ontario Colleges, in which one can gain a College Certificate in Home Inspection. They do provide the course on their own though.
The education is actually, great. Expensive yes. Through the college, you would spend nearly $4000 plus $2000 for 10 textbooks (this is the rippoff).
Courses are similar to, but I would say more in depth than the InterNACHI courses (which are definately good aswell) and has more Canadian content. There are different “rules” in Canada for some clearances and other things. When taught through the college, each course has discussion with an inspector instructor, case studies, field excercises, timed online mid term and final closed book exam which must be written in person.
Now, all of the other benefits in addition to the required courses is where InterNACHI excels. The other information and day to day interaction with other home inspectors is invaluable.
They tried to pass that crap in Missouri a few years back. It was used by ASHI (the same people who lobbied your bill) to get members to support it by promising them that they could make money charging newbies to ride along with them under the new law.
The sales pitch I heard at an ASHI meeting went like this…“How would you like to be able to charge less for your inspections to compete against your competitor —while scheduling a wannabe to help carry your tools for you and having him pay you more than you discounted?”
It worked well enough to get a few ASHI guys to support the bill…but the still lost.
Who mentored you?
Like Jim, I love local chapter meetings because of the interaction. I’ve been to hundreds of them.
But for education, it’s pretty hard to have an industry expert teach you with mock-ups, close-ups, and safely take you on-site from a classroom setting. Here is an example of what I mean (it was released this morning): http://www.nachi.tv/wind-hail/wind-hail-damage-inspection.htm The other main advantage (for guys like me with ADD) is that all the nonsense and wasted time is edited out. I describe it as inspection hyper-training.
I checked out the Academy of Learning in my area. After talking with them, and reading their brochure I noticed they used Carlson and Dunlop as their educational tools. This was a 6 month full-time course. I almost fell off my seat when they said the course was $10,500 for the Home Inspector course. I went to the Carlson and Dunlop site and noticed their Home Training course was $3500. You’d be surprised what you can find at the local library for free!
:mrgreen: Merry Christmas!
Jarrod
Absurd.
High-quality, robust inspection education is free or almost free nowadays.
Carson Dunlap classes are from the early '90s. If I can load a Power Point in the Members Only area (might be too large) I’ll load an example.
They are way too outdated.:shock:
Yep. A lot has changed in 20 years.
Hello Keegan:
I was the teacher of the Carson Dunlop course at Sault college and I can say that without a doubt you should sign up for “InterNachi”.
The schooling and support they receive is by far better than the 10 books offered under the certification of Carson Dunlop.
15 of my students went through it and 2 of them are know InterNachi,2 have pursued Energy Audit and 1 works for Solar company in Sault Ste Marie Ontario. I am sure that there will be about 5 more to pursue InterNachi.I feel bad that they had to pay 4000 dollars for the Sault College certificate. :roll:
Carson Dunlap is the only course approved for initial licensing in NJ. I sit and review these stupid slides with students every Sunday.
NJ could certainly benefit from a 140 hour Nachi program that compares in subject to Carson Dunlap. What do you think Nick? The current Nachi pre-licensing doesn’t get it done yet.
Perhaps the very cheapest way to get home inspection education is the best way to go? The cheapest and easiest way of doing anything always works out better right?
The Carson Dunlop courses (540 hours) are industry standard and the best place to START. British Columbia was the first province to start licensing home inspectors and you can easily research what requirements they demanded (hint: it wasn’t the cheap and easy courses).
It’s no wonder the failure rate of new home inspection businesses are so high. When an individual thinks that their annual Starbucks coffee budget should be plenty for education, tools, professional association memberships, CGL and E&O insurance, advertising, vehicle etc., they have failed before they even got started.
I get the whole O-Canada thing in your post. You can’t be serious with Carson Dunlap being the best training…or if you were trained with that crap, maybe you are serious.:roll:
I used the C/D book in my initial courses and even though outdated they did a good job with the basics.
Their Horizon software is good also but way too expensive.
I used it before HIP.
Still they can charge what they want and if it is too high then that is opportunity for someone else to step in.
Hello everybody.
My name is Tyler Erwin, I am the “friend” Keegan was referring to. Although Carson Dunlop seems like a decent establishment it cant compete with the amount of information and support available on this website.
Fortunately I was still protected by my 30 day money back guarentee. I have sent back my first course and used the money to purchase the InterNACHI Inpector Library as it seems I will need some help to pass the inspectors exam.
Just thought I’d make an account and say hello to everybody.
Not really mentoring telling stories twice a year to the Part Time Inspectors.
As you get little more time as a Full time Inspector this will become clear.
That was the problem with the ITA stuff also.