Membership has been spiking for the past few months. Out of curiosity, what do you attribute that to Nick?
The last of ASHI jumping over to InterNACHI.
Georgia is #4, almost about 1200 members and about 800 in metro Atlanta. Sheesh!
Only about 5k in FL 
Looks like about around 1100 in Tampa? Around 330 in Sarasota? I lived in Sarasota for about 5 years. I think Tampa membership density appears denser than Atlanta? You could probably throw a stone and hit a member in these markets.
Just so you know, these are members. Most members are not inspectors and not visible on our public search sites. We only display full CPIs® to the public.
Interesting that I don’t show up on the map. been a member for 13+ years
In keeping with our pledge to keep your personal information private, all pins on the map are shifted slightly and randomly. In other words, no member of the public could use our interactive map to determine your address.
Even after “the last of ASHI” joined, there are still more non-inspector members than inspector members. Interesting 
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Where is that chart from? You didn’t include a source so that I can figure out what it is.
That graph is hogwash.
So InterNACHI has more than 27,000 members. We can’t see how many ASHI has but we can look at their public 990’s and divide their membership revenue by their annual fee and find out. Let’s do some grade school math:
$1,539,504 from 2024 includes membership dues, so we know that’s the most due revenue they could have. Side note (It is down 21% from $1,944,929 in 2023). Let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and say it is all due revenue. Dues are $499 and I’m not even going to include application fees. $1,539,504/$499=3,085 members. But actual membership is even less because we are pretending it all came from due revenue, we didn’t include application fees, and the year is 2024 (they’ve been losing about 1/5th of their membership year after year for a while). So currently, 2,100 members would be pretty accurate.
Now compare InterNACHI’s 27,000+ to ASHI’s 2,100. We’re at least 7 times larger than ASHI in membership and if you look at entire conglomerate revenue, we are about 39 times larger.
Does that graph now look like hogwash? Yep.
Of the 261 inspectors that responded to the poll, 35% said they were with multi-inspector companies, which means their dues were only $299 (35% of the $1,539,504). During their 2024-2025 fiscal year, regular dues were only $449 (65% of the $1,539,504).
Based on your comment that “most members are not inspectors”, I can assume that means 13,449 or less of InterNACHI’s 27,000 members are inspectors.
Given a margin of error of up to +/-8% for a 99% confidence level, I’d say the graph tracks pretty close.
OK. Good point. If the respondents represent their membership and 35% of their membership are paying $299 instead of $499, then their membership based on revenue would be higher by 722 members ($1,539,504/$499)-($1539,504/$299)x0.35.
But the results of a sample are only useful if the sample represents the population. I’ll give you an extreme example that might help explain: If I asked 100 inspectors who Inspector Outlet sold IR cameras to, if they use IR cameras on every inspection, the graph produced from those answers is going to make it appear that nearly every home inspection is done with an IR camera. ASHI members can’t use the largest insurer in the industry (InterNACHI) and so OREP has a lot of them in their book. OREP sent their survey to their own book. So the results aren’t a sample of the industry, or even a sample of their book, but rather the results of those who responded to a survey sent only to one insurer’s book. Or in other words, hogwash.
Now the reason I knew immediately that their graph was hogwash is that I actually have ASHI’s entire membership database in live time (no, I didn’t do anything illegal to gain access to it). Today it is right around 2,100. That is less than 1/7th the size of InterNACHI’s membership.
Related side note: As for the word “inspector,” InterNACHI doesn’t consider a member to be an inspector unless they are a CPI®. Now the member might consider themselves to be an inspector, but we don’t list them on any public search sites until they become a CPI®. The map I mention at the start of this thread shows members, not inspectors. So the map is much more populated than our public search sites.
So now that we’ve looked at ASHI’s membership size, let’s look at their membership trend using their 990s and let’s plot that as a graph using the data that are pulled directly from ASHI’s sworn-true public tax returns (not the replies of those who replied to a survey sent to a sample of inspectors who aren’t representative of the industry):
Year - Program Revenue - Source
2019 - $3,311,910 - 990 public document
2020 - $3,158,969 - 990 public document
2021 - $2.750,625 - 990 public document
2022 - $2,620,528 - 990 public document
2023 - $1,944,929 - 990 public document
2024 - $1,539,504 - 990 public document
2025 - $1,247,900 - estimated from current member database
My advice to ASHI’s Board of Directors is to do a clean sweep and fire their entire staff, particularly their CEO. Start fresh. But do it very soon. ASHI is almost out of business. They need to act fast.
The magazine claims a circulation of 25,000. I’ve never had their insurance nor have I been a member of ASHI, but somehow I receive the print magazine. 60% of respondents were InterNACHI members, so their circulation is obviously not limited to ASHI members or OREP clients.
Maybe even more, but they primarily serve the appraisal and real estate industry and have for as long as I can remember (maybe 30 years?). Their owner came out of FREA if you remember them. They were an association of appraisers.
But recently, they did a deal with us at CCPIA® and are beginning to focus on commercial inspectors (which is the future of the inspection industry): https://orep.org/commercialinspectors/.
And they recently did a fluff piece on me (it’s good to be king): Building an Unbeatable Offer: Interview With Nick Gromicko
And tonight I finished yet another interview with their publisher, Isaac Peck, on InterNACHI’s home inspection software and Inspectacles™.
That all said, magazine circulation in other industries doesn’t matter much when it comes to a survey about home inspections. Actually, it doesn’t matter at all… which is why my system of looking at sworn-true financial documents filed publicly with the IRS is so superior.
And looking at those financial documents was really shocking… there isn’t much left of ASHI. They already sold off their headquarters building (that they owned for many years) for a huge loss a couple years ago To stay afloat, ASHI cancels national convention and sells its headquarters building and fired everyone who had any brains. I just don’t see an out for them. I don’t want them. We want only quality operations added to our ever growing conglomerate: The InterNACHI® Conglomerate