2013’s is there at your link actually.
Thanks
-Carl
Quite the jump in top 3 salaries from 2011 to 2012. 
-Carl
Keith Swift. I provided the link.
If you really look at the work Chris and I did for InterNACHI, it started in 1992. It took us many years of working 7 days a week (for example: today is Sunday and we are both at work) to get to where we could pay everyone without slowing our growth of www.nachi.org/benefits.htm
Most trade associations fail, because the officers refuse to work for free for a couple of decades when the association is young. Building a successful trade association that is beneficial to its members and financially self-sustaining is much like raising a child. It’s 18 years of sacrifice.
Kinda hard to keep up with all of these gimmicks that guarantee riches for home inspectors, isn’t it? 
Jim Bushart writes:
LOL! Yeah, that isn’t our book… his book isn’t available any longer.
Conversely, www.nachi.org/now.htm (now in full-color) gets shipped by the thousands every week.
Reminds me of a funny story. A trucker is driving down the road and sees a sign “Coca Cola - 25 cents.” He pulls in and asks for a Coke. The store owner says “Sorry, I’m all out, but there is another store one mile down the road.” So the trucker heads down the road and sees another sign “Coca Cola - $3.” He pulls in and says “Three dollars? The store down the road only charges 25 cents!” The store owner asks “Well then, why didn’t you buy your Coke there?” The truck driver answers “He was all out.” The store owner then replied “Well, when I’m all out, my Coca Cola is free.”
Creating a financially unsustainable anything doesn’t help anyone.
LOL. Right.
Was I in it for the money in 1992 or 1993 or 1994 or 1995 or 1996 or 1997 or 1998 or 1999 or 2000 or 2001 or 2002 or 2003 or 2004 or 2005 or 2006 or 2007 or 2008 or 2009 or 2010?
I like all the org has to offer. But prices on some “free” things seem out of line with comparable industries.
Like the free logo/marketing/etc what have you. The price for “Printing” is like 500% over places like VistaPrint. So it’s not really “free” with a comparable printing site.
So I design my own stuff and have Vistaprint do it for $30 compared to INACHIS “Free” thing that would cost me $250. Find a better printer or stop calling it free.
And it seems everyone gets the same rackcard text/flyer text/biz card design, etc…
Sure there are differences, but it mostly just 80-90 percent boilerplate text from 1 inspector to the next.
Like, how does it cost $7.00 to ship 250 “Realtor CE” biz size cards? I just bought some , but now I wonder why, all i have to do is tell them about it, give them a link and my ID number, no card nesc. Or just print that info on the back of the 1,000 cards I can get from Vista for $30 and have my ID# there ready to go instead of scribbled on by myself with your cards.
Some of the offers just make no sense…in other words 
-Carl
…Or the FREE “decal” that costs $10.83 to ship. :shock:
If you order just one decal, yes, you have to pay for the packing and shipping (who are you asking to have it paid for by… your fellow members? That’s not right), but again… that money doesn’t go to me and it doesn’t go to InterNACHI. It’s best to wait until you place an order for something else to add on all the additional free stuff so that it rides in the same box at no charge.
It doesn’t. It costs us many time that. Some landlord wants to be paid for the space in our warehouse where they are sitting. Someone wants to be paid to take and process your order. Some company wants to be paid for the box. Some company wants to be paid for the tape. UPS or USPS wants paid to deliver it to you. We haven’t even included our printing costs or the costs of developing the courses or the costs of editing the courses or the fees to get them approved for real estate agents in your state and on and on. $7? You should throw in a tip.
Yes, the system I designed, intentionally allows agents to access these courses by simply using YOUR InterNACHI ID# so that you can save money by scribbling it or giving it over the phone or printing it on the back of your business cards. If I was trying to make money off of you, I’d have used a different system that forced you to buy the cards from us each time. It’s clearly designed to make you money, not me rich off your $7. :roll:
This is what I did…
Did you offer to pretend like you were willing to buy back 90 days worth of inspected homes for $5 per inspection in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, or 2010?
Back when NACHI was a home inspector association … and before it became controlled by and for vendors paying you cash for access to members … you invested lots of time. We all did.
Nope. This is a new phenomena among yourself and other vendors wanting to get a piece of a red hot real estate market. No longer are you guys looking to make a dollar for a single sale … but a portion of every fee paid to an inspector.
I don’t begrudge you the effort to take advantage of a few newbies to make a few bucks until the next gimmick. Get their cash while you can. Just stop insulting the intelligence of those who aren’t taking the bait.
I’m new and accept there are costs to getting business.
Right now I’m busy with a few things and feel its worth buying help to get more inspections.
I am not involved in the buyback because of inexperience in business.
I also a director of NACRA, North American Contractors and Remodelers of America, I have a year of countless hours, my money and the aggravation of telling members the organization needs money to pay its bills. First thing I hear back is someone thinking I’m getting rich off a $100 a year membership fee.
I can’t speak for Nick, never met or talked to him but I can relate to his telling us about the expenses involved in making Internachi the organization it is.
So what if he is finally making some money?
Jim writes:
No vendor pays us one red cent to access our members. Ask any of them. InterNACHI’s website has 17 million unique visitors. Show me one banner ad on this message board. You can’t.
Vendors pay for advertising here, but they don’t pay us… they pay YOU (in the form of InterNACHI member exclusive discounts). Yep, even Dominic pays to be on this message board. But he doesn’t pay us. He pays YOU. That’s the fee we charge Dominic. We require that he give InterNACHI members great pricing and great service. We don’t take a cut for ourselves, we instruct him to give his cut directly to YOU.
Because of the traffic this website gets, some vendors have offered us as much as $10,000.00/month to run a banner ad here. We’ve turned them all down and instead told them to pass along that $10,000.00 to our members in the form of exclusive deals. In other words, we instruct the vendors to give our ad dollars directly to members, like YOU.
You’ll all know the day I “sell out” (It’s never going to happen BTW) because you’ll come to this message board and find it cluttered with banner ads.
I am still looking at and reviewing this “Buy-Back” program.
I was formerly with a Franchise that offered a 1 Year Guarantee (Paid by the Franchise Owner)
The program is similar…
offers less liability and
is easily marketable…
with little Liability risk.
Actually Jim, it’s just the reverse of what you claim. For example: With regard to the Super Deals section found at the bottom of www.nachi.org/benefits.htm , the vendors don’t “pay us for access to members.” We pay the vendors so our members can access the deals. We have to pay the vendors every month so that YOU have access to those discounts.
I did.
Has always been the Rule.
Great that it continues and fuels the success of this Organization.