What are you struggling with?

[bboerner (Billy Boerner, CMI, InterNACHI, IAC2)]

@gromicko

Jim Bushart writes: O.K. I’ll get that done. I need 3 things:

1. A definition of a “Vendor.” I need someone to come up with that. Any volunteers? Post a first draft please.
2. A Code of Ethics for vendors, one that uses the aforementioned definition and addresses a vendor forum . I have Ben, Mark and Kate working on a draft of that.
3. A separate vendor message board forum that not only allows, but encourages vendors to promote their products, services, updates, etc. Vendors would still be able to interact all over the message boards, but would have a particular forum for the sole purpose of telling us all about their wares.

This industry is what without vendors? Try to imagine what tomorrow would be like with no reporting software, no business cards, no inspector websites, no IR cameras, no inspection schools, no flashlights, no ladders, no mold kits, no brochures, no insurance, no books, no… etc.

• A person or company offering something for sale, esp. a trader in the street: “an Italian ice cream vendor”.
• A person or company whose principal product lines are office supplies and equipment.

[gromicko (Nick Gromicko, CMI)]

I hear what some of you are saying.

It’s an emotional issue for some vendors. Naturally, when you work for many years, really hard, to create something awesome, a trade association like InterNACHI, or a business, or a product, or whatever… you kind of feel like it is your child. When someone attacks your child, your normally-good bedside manner becomes difficult to maintain. I’m guilty of it myself.

[rjude (Robert Jude, HI00900033)]

@gromicko

InterNACHI’s ESOP Chairman, the vendor, and InterNACHI’s CEO are in a conference together working something out. I’m not involved.

Thats the way it should be.

[mlarson (Michael Larson, WI Lic. # 1672-106)]

@gromicko

Any action recommended by any committee that requires the punishing all the other members… will be ignored.

Seriously Nick,

Please explain how enforcing the sanctions determined by the appropriate committee following numerous complaints of COE violations punishes all the other members.

[mauger (Mike Auger, CMI - RI 43685, RMC-142, RMB-096)]

Vendor:
An individual who represents any product or service marketed to home inspectors or contractors. This individual is considered a vendor even if the service or product is sold in accord or partnership with a home inspector as a service or product to a home owner or other mutual client.

The gray area would be a vendor who is also a home inspector, in which case, it should be stated that any posts related to his product or service included in the vendor definition be solely posted and referenced in the vendor only section.

Hows this for a start?