I disagree and I bet the majority of all our members do also. Our organization should not be here to educate Used House Salesman in our business, and to help them actually take away biz from us or at a minimum start conflicts between them and us. They will take this course and BAM think they are now know it all about decks when most of them have never seen a joist hanger nail, lag bolt baluster etc… heads are going to butt … WE are Professional Inspectors,
Agents are agents and there must be a clear separation between the two different occupations. What’s next? should you teach them to do a electric panel inspection? Pehaps a quick course in Water Heaters? Maybe even toss in a good ole Handrail/baluster crash course?
This is a HUGE mistake and has irreversible negative consequences.
Interesting article. More bad advice from another salesman who thinks he knows about home inspections. Not to worry, though. He is probably the only one out there.
Seriously, though…I don’t think this is much of a big deal.
Jim of all people to say that NACHI now giving FREE training to you buddy used house salesmen ? come on now, that cannot be sitting to well with you. I know you and I don’t see eye to eye on the whole Licensing thing, but traing Agents in any aspect of Inspections?
Sorry not me.
Let’s get past the hyperbolic claims of the “hugeness” of this for just a moment and look at it, realistically.
NACHI is a a national association of home inspectors and it represents, no more and no less than any other national association, a cross section of the industry. The majority of our industry … some estimates as high as 80% … are newby part timers who are only passing through.
Guess what. Real estate salesmen fall into that same statistical description as well.
Nick markets to every segment of the industry and everyone … from the most experienced inspector to the newby waiting for his instructions to be mailed to him to help him operate his new flashlight … can find something to benefit from his membership here.
Newbies will be running out to salesmen with their “great opportunity” and most of them will politely thank them “anyway”. We know this.
Most of the experienced real estate salesmen know the benefit of “knowing nothing”. The last thing they ever want a customer to know is that they were actually TRAINED at inspecting a home when they sold it with undisclosed defects.
Newby agents who might, if they are lucky, sell the average 2.6 houses per year will be selling cars before it comes time for the following year’s CEU requirements.
So…let the newby inspectors have this “benefit” to waste their time with in their efforts to build a business based upon a conflict of interest. Pretending that an agent might actually spend three hours learning how to inspect a deck…even a newby knows better than to encourage and give his favorite agent access to a databasefull of names of those more qualified than him to inspect a house.
Nothing, IMNHO, will come of it. It’s no real big deal.
My plan to provide free, approved courses to real estate agents so that they can fulfill their continuing education requirements has absolutely nothing to do with providing free, approved courses to real estate agents so that they can fulfill their continuing education requirements.
You are a deep thinker, Nick. Most Realtors are not deep thinkers. All a Realtor wants to know is how can I do better at my job for I can make more money. They have drilled in their heads early on, that the less they know about construction itself, the less liability there is.
NACHI now giving FREE training to you buddy used house salesmen ? come on now, that cannot be sitting to well with you. I know you and I don’t see eye to eye on the whole Licensing thing, but traing Agents in any aspect of Inspections?
Touche’ sir