Believe what ever BS you wish.
It is still BS.
I will.
Your statements will not be believed.
How much have you paid in so far?
Did you raise your prices by $30
It must be hard to a be a *** all the time but you seem to handle so well.
BTW i hardly post but i do comment . i have not got the time searching for such mundane items like you.:roll: I do work.
I take great comfort in knowing I bug that crap out your liberal or is is wishy washy moderate, Christian hating rear end?
Whats the harm?
The buyback will be appreciated by some.
Guaranties are popular with people and can be used as a marketing tool.
I think a list of pros and cons as these are personal opinions is all anyone needs to offer this buy back or not.
Do a pro and con list and decide what works for you. No point in knocking the buyback as that benefits who?
It’s a tool that costs a little to use, but it isn’t for everyone. I’ll tell you a funny but true story. I live way up in the mountains and my neighbors up here are simple mountain folk. I own part of a fire mitigation company and so I deliver him logs when I have nearby projects. He cuts them up with a chainsaw, splits them, and sells them for firewood. That’s his only source of income. I even buy my firewood from him. He sells me back my logs as firewood. He’s a dear friend. Although he uses a chainsaw to cut the logs up, he splits the logs by hand. Well, not with karate chops, I mean he uses a maul and a wedge. He splits 2 chords a day with nothing more than an axe, a maul, and a splitting wedge. I had a nearly new gas-powered, hydraulic log splitter at my shop in Boulder that can do several chords an hour. I had no use for it. So come the holidays last year, I towed it up and gave it to him. He thanked me but graciously said that he didn’t want it. I was perplexed. I explained that this thing is an amazingly powerful tool and that he was going to make a lot of money with it. But he was adamant. He explained why he didn’t want it. He said the thing requires gas to run and gas costs $4/gallon, that he didn’t want any costs in operating his business, that he already made enough money to live on, and was happy. So, I hauled it back down to Boulder that night, unhitched it, and began work on a financial analysis. I laid out a detailed spreadsheet for him. It showed that the little cost of using the tool was going to be far offset by the profits it would generate for him. I worked on it all night, not because it was a difficult analysis, but because I used graphics (little drawings of piles of firewood) to explain it. I put it all in a briefcase and headed back up the mountains to show him. On the way up I passed the local Farm and Ranch store. About a mile later, I made a U-turn and headed back to the store. I went in and bought the best Norwegian wood axe, maul and splitting wedges that they sold. I delivered the new axe, maul and wedges as my Christmas gift to him… and he was overjoyed beyond all expectation. He said it was the best Christmas gifts he had ever received. I used my spreadsheet drawings to start a fire in my stove that night and never mentioned the gas-powered hydraulic log splitter again. My neighbor and I remain best friends.
Very Nice Nick.
Hopefully many will see (or hopefully understand) your analogy.
It’s a powerful tool for those who want to use it. You’re not necessarily right for using it and not necessarily wrong for not using it.
And that is all this is, a marketing tool.
There is nothing backing it as Nick has said he doesn’t plan to have to buy many, if any homes. A homeowner would either have to have a very good reason, as in, the house was riddled in termites that were missed, which is out of the scope of inspections, but, fortunately, a gfi receptacle was bad, so, pay me the money I paid for this home, or the buyback will never happen. I happen to believe the latter.
It would be like me offering my clients to buy back their homes…if a 10.0 earthquake were to hit…and my marketing would be, “I will buy back your home for full price in the event an earthquake hits”. It is all in the fine print.
And, I just went through this scenario, a GC in my former area was touting the buy-back guarantee and after I got done talking to the client, he realized the proposal for what it was, a gimmick. I’ll be making a trip to Broward Wednesday…against my better judgement… 
But there will be a decent payday involved! 
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Nick never sold a gimmick that was not “the best”.
Come on into the tent and next to the bearded lady, you will find …
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… and, of course, the hyperbole concerning the marketing value of CMI is to voluminous for just one post.
Vendors don’t just hype their products anymore. They are trying to get a slice of each inspector’s fee while the market is hot … and Nick wants to play, too.
With the guy getting paid for each phone call that is made to a home inspector, the guy getting paid for each inspection containing his recall or warranty gimmicks, and so on and so on … Nick wants his impossible promise that no one believes to pay him as well.
It’s a vendor thing.
Keith who? What book are you talking about?
Me? I don’t get that money. I think when you compare InterNACHI’s Membership Benefits and Competitive Advantages - InterNACHI® list to any other association (not just inspection associations, but any trade association in any industry)… you’ll figure out where our money goes. We allocate our resources wisely to the benefit of our members. It’s going to be difficult, looking at Membership Benefits and Competitive Advantages - InterNACHI® to argue otherwise. In the trade association world, a few hundred dollars in dues gets you a logo, some information, maybe a message board, a publication perhaps, and a discount on life insurance. This is true for just about all trade associations. Then comes InterNACHI.
By now Jim you should know Nick is just volunteering his expertise at INachi, he’s not in it for the money.
Jim, you attributed a quote to me about a book from someone named Keith. Keith who?
I’ve been in this business for 27 years and so I’ve heard about everything called a “gimmick” including websites, radon, CMI, photos in inspection reports, electronic report delivery, mold, the team inspection concept, the Now That You’ve had a Home Inspection book, infrared cameras, etc.
I’m used to it.
LMAO:p
There’s more drama here than a Kardashian wedding:mrgreen:
Are InterNACHI’s IRS 990s available for review on the site somewhere?
-Carl
http://www.nachi.org/nachitax.htm They only go back to 2009 (a year after the crash where I had to personally loan InterNACHI $200K) and don’t include the decade+ prior where I and others worked night and day for free, but you can get a good idea of the way we allocate our resources frugally by looking at how much we do www.nachi.org/benefits.htm with members’ dues compared to any other trade association on earth.