I was typing on the phone.
Came out wrong as I meant anyone can post their own for free.This was a joke in response to another poster.
Obviously that would be unethical.Duh!
Never saw you use the long version of your name before…should we call you Nikolai now ?
Oh, good. I thought you were insinuating that you would post them up online for free. I’m Nikolai, Nick’s son. I run Inspector Outlet.
How so? Kenton has spent years compiling these narratives, and it has taken him over 5 months to move all 8000 narratives into a usable HIP template. When you purchase the template, you’re not just getting another template for HIP, you’re also getting access to the narratives themselves, which have been selling on their own for $95.99 for years.
I should specify: HIP is not making any money off of these. The money you pay for this template goes directly to Kenton for all of his hard work.
I see nothing wrong with this as HIP templates are all over the place if anyone feels the need to use them…
James did you post yours over at the HIP forum?
I did years ago.
Many may not even wish to use others comments but for newer guys this is great and at least they gotta pay rather than handed on a silver platter.
OK did not know Nick had a son…good job keeping on top of things.
HIP has always been a share community. We have always had that over most, if not all other software vendors. The narratives should stay on a disc and off a. .tpz file unless its free. Not to take away from Kenton’s work, but you will never understand unless you are part of the community.
Dom. is like a brother to me. I do not always agree with my natural brothers and I don’t agree with this decision.
That’s all.
I can understand that. Let me try a different angle. You’re not buying a template. You’re buying Kenton’s narratives. The template version of them is included free. If you still don’t agree, well, I’m sorry.
I do think that this will be a great option for inspectors that would like to use his narratives with HIP.
I understand your concern and comment Drew, but you know we’re not going the way of HG! This is his existing Library that he’s always sold for $95 on InspectorsOutlet as a Word Doc. He bottled it into a HIP template as Kenton uses HIP now to make it EASIER for the guys purchasing his narratives as MANY guys were emailing Kenton and myself asking for it as a HIP template. Currently they manually copy/paste all the narratives over. To be honest Kenton doing this is him taking a risk as it’s much easier for people to share his copyrighted material now.
This template is not sold on the HIP site and and we make no profit off it being sold on InspectorsOutlet(Kenton offered, I declined).
So you could basically look at it this way, Buy Kenton’s narratives (as everyone always has) and get the HIP template free!!
As Drew said, there are tons of templates guys have shared for free on the forums which is the HIP way and is awesome. Kenton asked if this was okay and I agreed. He’s sharing more than just another template here. This is the InterNACHI narrative collection (and it’s extremely well polished) and is just being bundled in with their existing sale.
LOL, looks like Nickolai and I had the same comment at the same time!
Yes James has and he helped make several of the official HIP templates that are all InterNACHI based.
Dom, does Kentons’ template work on version 2.9, or does one need the 3.0 upgrade?
I don’t think he used the List feature so it’ll work on both.
Okay I just took a look over it again and he does use the Notes feature. So it will open fine in HIP 2 but you’ll get text like [Toilet Leaking]] in front of narratives he used the note feature in since they’re not stripped out like they are in HIP 3.
Thanks Dom. Any other considerations we should be aware of, prior to purchase? It’s always the ‘little details’ that seem to escape up until it’s too late.
Thanks Dom.
Are there any other considerations we should be aware of, prior to purchase? It’s always the ‘little details’ that seem to escape up until it’s too late.
Anyone thinking about going mobile in the future wants the [notes]] and the [caption]] features as well.
With 300,000 words I guess you better use the [notes]] or you will never find anything.
Mobile sounds perfect for the narratives as they would be easier to pull up using “search as you type”
All narratives have notes unless they are so short that the notes would be of equal or greater length.
So tempting…
My whole template is done with [notes]] and [caption]] well spaced so it is easy to find what I need
And for your HIP users, this released today: http://www.inspectoroutlet.com/inspection-narratives-for-home-inspector-pro.aspx
Kenton may have put countless hours into those narratives but if I recall he did not write all them personally and many came from posts on this MB.
Please correct my memory if it is wrong.
They are a fine product none the less.