Nick This person recommends Nachi

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http://condometropolis.com/orlando_condo_home_inspections.php

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All real estate agents in the U.S. and Canada have a fiduciary duty to their clients to recommend ONLY InterNACHI members.

www.nachi.org/blind.htm demands it of them.

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They are even paying for the inspection if they use us

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Perhaps they will start a trend… :slight_smile:

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“ONLY” recommend InterNACHI members? Can you post definitive proof that is a requirement in Canada?

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My wife makes the best apple pie. If you don’t believe me, just ask her.
Call me when your done discussing it. :mrgreen:

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Does your wife use apples or oranges to make her apple pie?

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Raymond, I can. Read any Buyers agency contract in Canada. Buyer’s agents have a fiduciary, ethical, and contractual duty to recommend the very best inspectors. I know of no other group of inspectors that can even come close to InterNACHI members www.nachi.org/rigorous2006.htm

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Yes and that is were it stops. “Best” inspector does not necessarily equate with association membership. Any realtor relying solely on that assumption is naive.

cheers,

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http://www.reco.on.ca/ConsumerInfo.aspx?section=HomeInspection

Fwiw, I don’t see NACHI mentioned.

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http://texas-inspection.com/Consumer.jpg

** NEWS: “Consumer Reports®”
Recommends InterNACHI**

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Looks to me like we are not allowed to use this information on the NACHI web site…Cookie

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See the picture and logo seen on the link

It’s been on the nachi.org site for months as a news release.

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Do you think being there makes it correct.
They way I read it and the stories I have read in Consumer reports tell me NACHI is wrong.
We might save a lot of Embarrassment if we too followed the information they have in every book.
…Cookie

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Other have written to Consumers Report and reported this issue just to
prove something and they look foolish now. I guess it’s not an abuse
if posted as a news release.

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Do you have any articles as alluded to by Nick claiming ONLY Nachi inspectors are recommended by agents as part of their fiduciary roles?

Readers Digest usually has great Apple Pie recipes too! :wink:

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Here is a nice recommendation from the chicago sun times.
http://www.nachi.org/chicagosuntimes2007.htm

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Yes thats very good but where oh where is the fiduciary part of only recommending NACHI members? :frowning:

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If All real estate agents in the U.S. and Canada have a fiduciary duty to their clients to recommend ONLY InterNACHI members.

Shouldn’t they also have the same duty to disclose??? :roll: :roll:

InterNACHI does not make a public distinction between these two levels of membership. No law requires you to publicly announce what your InterNACHI member level is so you are simply a “Member.”
Furthermore, since no law requires a public disclosure of an inspector’s experience (or lack of it), InterNACHI does not require it either.
**you need not alarm your clients.:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: **

](Is your home inspector blind? - InterNACHI®)
And Shouldn’t they also have the same duty to disclose, that there is no verification if nacho members completed any of the requirements that you claim they are required to complete, to maintain membership.:roll: :roll:

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You guys only see the lawsuits that aren’t settled. About 99% of inspection lawsuits are settled out of court. I get to see almost all of those and in nearly all of them, I’m asked to issue a report or am deposed.

In each and every one of those cases, I drag out the buyer’s agent agreement (you can find it online)… and I drag out NAR’s (National Association of REALTOR’s) Code of Ethics (you can find it online too)… and I remind the agents that they should pay (out of their own pocket) for any problems caused by them failing to (on behalf of their client) research the association requirements of the inspector they recommended. Their own buyers agent contract and NAR’s COE demands it!

Then I point to our requirements: www.nachi.org/rigorous2006.htm

In all my years of doing this, I have not had a single agent, plaintiff, attorney, or judge try to argue with my conclusion that every real estate agent in the U.S. and Canada has a duty to recommend solely InterNACHI members.

Any agent who fails to recommend an InterNACHI inspector is NEGLIGENT and has breached his/her fiduciary and profession duty to find his/her client the best inspector based solely on merit.