Originally Posted By: ltrower This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Gerry,
I notice from the list that Connecticut, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas are not using the NHIE test. Wonder what test they are using? Also what does it mean for Rhode Island (unfunded).
Looks like to me that there is plenty of room for NACHI to get into the act and I am sure we could find a way to do it much cheaper then PROMISOR does.
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I would not want to offer a competing licensing exam just so we can do it cheaper. The nice thing about the NHIE is that in states using it for licensing, you don’t have to join a particular association. This is good for NACHI.
Originally Posted By: jedwards This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Lee,
SC uses a pretty simple proprietary test developed by the Residential Builders Commission which also licenses HI's. But if another organzation gets its way, SC will be in the bold print soon.
The NHIE is the least of the worries with this legislation. If you read the bill carefully, you'll see that any inspector who doesn't have 250 inspections and three years' continuous experience as of July 1, 2004 (the beginning of the state fiscal year, which also defines the licensing year) is out of business. Period.
Originally Posted By: dbowers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Gerry - I looked at the link on your posting, and immediately realized that the folks at EBPHi & their NHIE are off base. In the column discussing licensing they include Kansas. Kansas has never had a licensing bill introduced EVER on HI’s.
What they did have was a bill introduced that included HI's as well as Termite Inspectors, Chimney Sweeps, Septi & Well Inspectors, etc. That bill would have made it illegal to use language in a Service Contract that limited our liabilitys or disclaimed what we could do or not do.
Nothing at ALL to do with licensing HI's or ANYBODY.
Makes you wonder if other of their stuff on that post is BS.
Originally Posted By: dbowers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
The states using the NHIE are doing it not because its cheap (its not), but because EBPHI & ASHI promote it as “THE ONLY TEST THAT HAS BEEN PSYCHOMETRICALLY REVIEWED” for HI’s (whatever that means).
Originally Posted By: dvalley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Dan,
Lets hope that the EBPHI properly advertised the status of "In Statute, using NHIE" on the appropriate states.
Originally Posted By: rwhitehouse This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
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If you read the bill carefully, you'll see that any inspector who doesn't have 250 inspections and three years' continuous experience as of July 1, 2004 (the beginning of the state fiscal year, which also defines the licensing year) is out of business. Period.
John I may be wrong but as I read this and understand it, the article or sections says
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Section 40-59-550. For the first year after enactment, to be eligible for a license as a home inspector, an applicant shall have:
been engaged in the practice of home inspection for compensation for not fewer than three years prior to the effective date of this article;
(4) performed not fewer than two hundred fifty home inspections for compensation;
I believe applicant is defined as someone that is applying for a license. If you currently hold a South Carolina Home Inspectors License then you will be renewing your license in July (not applying).
Originally Posted By: jedwards This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
to be wrong…).
Licenses are eligible for renewal on July 1, the first day of the State fiscal year. Even if you submit your application on June 30 or before, on July 1, your application for renewal becomes effective-- on that date, you're an applicant for renewal, and "an applicant shall have..."
Again, I'd love to be wrong-- I hope you're right. There's some interesting stuff going on in Columbia this week. PM me if you wanna discuss.
Originally Posted By: jmyers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Nick,
I don't believe cheaper should be the only vision for our test, once it is developed. NACHI is in the position to set some standards of our own and I don't think that it would be in anyones bests interests just to ignore that fact.
Not only can NACHI do it cheaper, we can do it better. We have done it faster, better and cheaper. With those three goals who could even begin to argue which association offers the best value for the buck! 
Originally Posted By: pdacey This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
ltrower wrote:
I notice from the list that Connecticut, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas are not using the NHIE test. Wonder what test they are using?
As with anything, TX does it its own way. We take an exam that was created by TREC (Texas Real Estate Commission). Actually it was created by the Inspection Commission which is part of TREC. About 60% of the test has little to do with home inspection. It was changed in Sept. 2002. The passing rate dropped from about 60% to just over 30%.