Home Inspector Podcast by InterNACHI: Recent Episodes
Ben Gromicko
We talk about everything the home inspector needs to operate a successful business, including advanced training, business essentials, and marketing strategies. Become an InterNACHI® Certified Home Inspector. And make more money.
Join CPA Wendy Barlin for a no-nonsense discussion on ensuring your home inspection business maximizes its financial efficiency. She’ll walk you through a tax deduction, how to find more deductions, debunk myths, and explain why listening to your neighbor's tax advice isn’t always the best idea. Set yourself up right from the start, and join us for tips and tricks to make your taxes work for you!
I discuss the importance of Google reviews for home inspection businesses. I share an article from InterNACHI's Official Vendor for inspector websites (www.nachi.org/website) that highlights how Google reviews can transform your business. We will also be discussing this topic in an upcoming webinar. Google reviews can establish trust and credibility, boost search engine visibility, and enhance local SEO. I provide tips on how to maximize the impact of Google reviews and share information about www.InspectorWebsiteBuilder.com, InterNACHI's official vendor for inspector website designs. Join me for a coffee talk session to learn more. Register for free at www.nachi.org/webinars.
Join CPI®, Ben Gromicko as he goes through a house, inspect it, find defects, and write a report. You'll learn how to perform a home inspection according to the Standards of Practice. We'll also discuss business, marketing, software, websites, time management, pricing, real estate agents, and much more. It's free, online, live, and open to everyone. Everyone who registers will receive the video recording to watch later, so register now. It's free and open to everyone.
Join the Founder of InterNACHI®, Nick Gromicko as he weighs in on the industry and how inspectors can make more money. For more webinars, please visit nachi.org/webinars
Join InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for a webinar on becoming a successful home inspector. This webinar will provide tips on training, certification, licensure, getting experience, inspection tools, profitable fees, websites, software, time management, branding, marketing, business, and much more!
Every home inspector website should be designed with a dozen features that make inspectors money. Learn the top features for your website in this webinar recorded with Natasha Gromicko from www.InspectorWebsiteBuilder.com, InterNACHI’s Official Vendor for inspector websites, at Get a Custom Home Inspector Website Designed by Inspector Website Builder - InterNACHI®. We talk about websites, SEO, chat, analytics, domain names, email addresses, scheduling, sample reports, software, conversion, and much more.
Join InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for a webinar on becoming a successful home inspector. This webinar will provide tips on software, time management, marketing & business, and much more!
Join InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko and go through a house, inspect it, find defects, and write a report. We'll learn how to perform a home inspection according to the Standards of Practice. We'll also discuss business, marketing, software, websites, and real estate agents. For more webinars visit nachi.or/webinars!
Listen to InterNACHI® Certified Master Inspector CPI® Austin Jenkins (Inspector AJ) as he discusses electrical systems, including how he inspects panels, the most common types of defects, and how it all ties in with InterNACHI's SOP.
The Builder's Warranty Inspection requires the inspector to know the building industry’s “one/two-year fit-and-finish warranty,” but not all builders are the same. Learn the information you need to know with Certified Master Inspector® Randy Meadows. For more webinars, visit nachi.org/webinars.
Listen to Certified Professional Inspector® Daniel Rossi as he discusses and answers questions about branding, in-person marketing, Google Business, and much more. Dan is based in Long Island, New York. To watch this webinar, please visit, https://www.nachi.org/webinars
Discover all the amazing membership benefits provided by InterNACHI® with the help of InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko. Schedule a free online coaching session and cover the topics of your choice, including training, certification, licensing, continuing education, business, and marketing. This monthly webinar is for new InterNACHI® members, but the webinar is open, and everyone is welcome to attend (members and non-members alike). Join us. Everyone who registers will receive the video recording.
Join Certified Professional Inspector® Beau Brown as he covers the basics of air conditioning, including the refrigerant cycle and heat pumps. Beau has been an InterNACHI® inspector for nine out of the 10 years of his professional home inspection career. He's based in Magna, Utah. For more webinars, visit nachi.org/webinars.
Learn how to download a Certificate of Completion for the free, online "How to Perform Deck Inspections Course" at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
In this free, online live webinar, learn how to create and write a blog for your home inspection website without any major effort. It's pretty easy to do when you learn how to use InterNACHI's resources for writing your own blog about home inspections and home maintenance. For more online webinars, please visit www.nachi.org/webinars.
Learn how to inspect the clearances for exhaust and vent terminations at decks during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Learn how to inspect clearances from a deck to the overhead electrical service entrance cables during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Learn how to inspect the exterior electric receptacles at decks during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Learn how to inspect the weep holes at deck ledger board locations during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Listen to this, to get your inspection business website online and verified by Google, follow these easy beginning steps.
Learn how to inspect the handrails and guards at decks during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
You can scream all you want from the rooftops about how great your home inspection company is. But if no one knows you, no one will listen to what you have to say.
Learn how to inspect the emergency egress and rescue openings underneath a deck during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Trust sells. People hire inspectors who they can trust. On some level, trust always matters.
Learn how to inspect the lighting at deck stairways during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
A good inspector website addresses the concerns and objections people may have about hiring you as their inspector. So you need to give them information that addresses those common barriers.
Learn how to inspect the waterproof electric receptacles in wet and damp locations at decks during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Learn how to inspect deck guards and posts and handrails at a deck during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Red Bull is a multibillion-dollar company, and they don’t spend a dime on advertising. Instead, they create content as their marketing strategy. They create tons of content. Likewise, inspectors should also create content to nurture their audience with valuable, relevant content. Create content.
Learn how to inspect a deck on a house by following InterNACHI-certified home inspector Ben Gromicko.
Don’t just wonder if an email campaign is working for your business or not. In order to use email to drive traffic to your inspection website, all you need to do is look at the analytics. Website analytics (data) will tell you where all of your website visitors are coming from.
Listen to this audio version of InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
InterNACHI® members adhere to the International Code of Ethics for Home Inspectors. InterNACHI®, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures.
There is a simple way of capturing new clients. And it’s easy to get those new clients by offering something of value (something sweet, like honey) when initially starting a new conversation.
Learn how to inspect deck bracing posts and beams during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Before you send everyone you know an email that markets your business, prepare your website and check the analytics.
Learn how to inspect the connections and fasteners at a deck during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
The three legs that hold up your business represent three critical parts of marketing your business. And one of them is nurturing. All three are needed.
Learn how to inspect deck beam spans and deck joist cantilevers during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
A unique value proposition is that sentence that answers the questions: What do you do? Who are you? Why should I hire you instead of the next home inspector? What problem can you solve for me?
Learn how to inspect a deck floor structure that is framed around an overhang, cantilever, chimney or bay window at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Learn about decks attached to overhangs and cantilevered floors of a house at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Join InterNACHI® Certified Professional Inspector CPI® Lon Henderson for a class on How to Perform Deck Inspections. This free online webinar is approved for Continuing Education in New York State. This webinar is also free and open to all InterNACHI members (regardless of their location). For more webinars, please visit https://www.nachi.org/webinars
Learn how to inspect the deck ledger board connections and fasteners during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Word-of-mouth marketing is the #1 driver to inspection business success. Without it, you’ll have to buy every client with ads, you’ll have to sell each person you meet, convert every website visitor, convince every phone call, and close every email every time, and that’s not scalable.
Learn how to inspect girders and beams at decks during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
But before you start running expensive Google ads, you first have to create a free Google Business Profile. Google has a way that verifies an actual legitimate business. So, create a business profile first. It's easy.
Learn how to inspect for wood rot and decay at decks during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/
When you work on marketing your inspection business, you should keep these three in mind— awareness, nurturing, and trust.
InterNACHI makes business and marketing very simple for home and building inspectors. No one else teaches what you're about to learn. https://nachi.org/simple
Learn how to inspect decks during a home inspection at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Become an InterNACHI Certified Deck Inspector and learn how to inspect deck post footings at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Learn how to inspect decks as an InterNACHI Certified Deck Inspector at https://www.nachi.org/education/.
Learn how to inspect decks during a home inspection. Get certified as an InterNACHI Certified Deck Inspector at https://nachi.org/education.
Discover all the amazing membership benefits provided by InterNACHI® with the help of InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko. Schedule a free online coaching session and cover the topics of your choice, including training, certification, licensing, continuing education, business, and marketing. This webinar is for new members, but the webinar is open and everyone is welcome to attend. For more Webinars, please visit https://www.nachi.org/webinars.
Listen to this! We'll review a recent home inspection, including finding defects, and going over the inspection images and report. We'll also talk about business, marketing, and making money as an InterNACHI® certified home inspector.###
Grab a coffee and join the live, informal discussion with InterNACHI’s Ben Gromicko, InterNACHI® members, and home inspectors as we talk about home inspections, business, marketing, and making money. This coffee talk is open to everyone. Ben's buying the first round of coffee.
InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko teaches what to do next after joining InterNACHI as a new member. You will learn the step-by-step checklist to becoming a successful home inspector, including training, certifications, business, and marketing. We also discussed with other inspectors about marketing design services, inspector websites, report writing software, inspection tools, insurance and guarantees, vendor discounts, and much more.
In this free live InterNACHI Webinar, Ben Gromicko reviewed the websites of attending inspectors and randomly-Googled inspectors, and gave actionable advice on improving them. A website should be designed to convert visitors into scheduled clients. Is your inspector website designed to make you money? Attend this webinar to find out.
Learn how to perform a home inspection according to a Standards of Practice with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko as he reviews a recent home inspection. Defects are identified, and the inspection report is reviewed.
Join InterNACHI Founder, Nick Gromicko for tips on business success for home inspectors!
Learn what every home inspector should know about social media and how it all connects to your website. Learn about choosing the right social media platforms, using best practices, setting realistic goals, tracking and measuring progress, creating content, sharing and engaging, and taking the next steps in making your website a job-scheduling machine. InspectorMedia's Mikayla Cox and Daniel King are the special guest presenters of this free live InterNACHI Webinar with Ben Gromicko as the host.
You can scream all you want from the rooftops about how great your home inspection company is. But if no one knows you, no one will listen to what you have to say. To fix that, you can simply borrow trust from other people or leverage an international organization of residential and commercial property inspectors - InterNACHI - as a trusted third party.
I’m building trust with your right now. You’re reading, watching, or listening to me. We’re not having a one-on-one conversation, but I’m still communicating with you, and that builds trust. The more people you talk to and the more clients you get, the more trust you build.
Listen to Ben Gromicko and Bill Fabian as they discuss some of the latest infrared cameras on the market today. They'll demonstrate their resolution and thermal sensitivity, and how to use WiFi to transfer images to your phone or tablet so you can integrate them into your home inspection report. We'll also see how some successful home inspection companies around the country are generating more income using infrared cameras.
A successful home inspector can answer the questions that people may have when deciding whether or not to hire them. And a good website does the same thing. It addresses the concerns and objections people may have about hiring you as their inspector. So you need to give them information that addresses those common barriers.
Did you know that texting is ten times more effective than email marketing? And InterNACHI’s Call Me Now button for inspectors uses texting. You’ve got to embed InterNACHI’s Call Me Now button on your inspector website. Today.
Red Bull is a multibillion-dollar company, and they don’t spend a dime on advertising. Instead, they create content as their marketing strategy. They create tons of content. Likewise, inspectors should also create content to nurture their audience with valuable, relevant content. Create content.
Don’t just wonder if an email campaign is working for your business or not. In order to use email to drive traffic to your inspection website, all you need to do is look at the analytics. Website analytics (data) will tell you where all of your website visitors are coming from.
There is a simple way of capturing new clients. And it’s easy to get those new clients by offering something of value (something sweet, like honey) when initially starting a new conversation.
Before you send everyone you know an email that markets your business, prepare your website and check the analytics. Website analytics helps inspectors pay attention to how they are nurturing people (or enticing and persuading people into hiring them as home inspectors).
Before you send everyone you know an email that markets your business, prepare your website and check the analytics.
Imagine a 3-legged stool. On the stool rests your home inspection business. The three legs that hold up your business represent three critical parts of marketing your business. And one of them is nurturing. All three are needed.
Word-of-mouth marketing works well when you describe your unique value proposition in just one sentence. One simple sentence. A unique value proposition is that sentence that answers the questions: What do you do? Who are you? Why should I hire you instead of the next home inspector? What problem can you solve for me?
That's (1) domain, (2) website, (3) logo, (4) InterNACHI Profile, (5) Google Business Profile, and (6) InterNACHI map listing. InterNACHI's Official Vendor for website designs at www.nachi.org/website. Go there now and get your website on Google.
Word-of-mouth marketing is the #1 driver to inspection business success. Without it, you’ll have to buy every client with ads, you’ll have to sell each person you meet, convert every website visitor, convince every phone call, and close every email every time, and that’s not scalable. On the other hand, when you’re good at word-of-mouth marketing, you’ll notice a continuous, viral effect happening.
Advertising can easily be the most expensive part of your marketing. A home inspection company can easily burn through a lot of cash with Google advertising. If you get advertising just right, you can reinvest into more advertising and reach a good profitable balance between money in and money out.
Imagine a 3-legged stool. On the stool rests your home inspection business. On just three legs. The three legs represent three critical parts of marketing for your home inspection business. All three are needed. And they are awareness, nurturing, and trust. When you work on marketing your inspection business, you should keep these three in mind— awareness, nurturing, and trust.
Grab a coffee and join the informal discussion with InterNACHI’s Ben Gromicko, InterNACHI® members, and home inspectors as we talk about home inspections, business, marketing, and making money. This coffee talk is open to everyone. Ben's buying the first round of coffee.
Performing a home inspection is fairly straightforward, but what's difficult is running a successful home inspection business. I'm here to help make inspection business and marketing very simple. Without wasting your time or money. No one else teaches what you're about to learn.
Learn about domains, business logos, and website design, and getting free inspection job leads (new clients) by InterNACHI.
Learn how to calculate profitable inspection fees and the nine ways to make more money as a home inspector.
Learn where to get the best inspection tools, safety equipment, checklists, and report writing software.
Learn how to get trained, certified, and experienced as a home inspector in the most efficient way possible.
If the perceived value is much greater than the cost, then it’s a good decision. Every. Single. Time. So your goal as a business owner is to figure out how to offer potential clients services that have overwhelming perceived value in relation to the costs.
Learn how to get trained as a home inspector, find the right home inspection tools, and how to get experience doing home inspections.
Learn how to beat your competition as a home inspector by being the best burger in town and not being a commodity.
Inspectors don't kill deals. Inspectors are storytellers. Inspectors should hire agents to work for them. Where are the agents? How to connect with them?
Listen to TPREIA Founding President and InterNACHI® Texas Education Director Paul Roebuck as he discusses New Home Construction Inspections specific to our Texas members.
Home inspectors give their clients InterNACHI's home maintenance book to help add value to the inspection service.
Hire a website designer that includes online scheduling for inspection jobs at https://www.nachi.org/website.htm.
We will review a recent home inspection, including the inspection images. We'll find defects. We'll also review the inspection report. We'll learn how to do a great home inspection. We'll also talk about marketing, business, and making money as a successful home inspector.
Learn how to download and use free promotional videos that help inspectors sell inspection services to their clients while they're at the inspection.
Hire InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko to work with you on your home inspection business for one week - absolutely free.
It's free and open to everyone who wants to develop a successful home inspection business.
Update your website with a free app to capture the emails and phone numbers of website visitors and convert them into clients.
Let's compare report software providers and see how they offer online scheduling and taking secure payments for home inspectors and their websites.
Learn the five simple steps to business and marketing for InterNACHI certified home inspectors with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko as he presents to a class at the InterNACHI® House of Horrors in Florida.
Here are some basic marketing action steps for home inspectors, including website domain, inspection business logo, home inspector website design, and getting free inspection job leads generated by InterNACHI®.
For Texas Home Inspectors: Listen to this informative webinar about the TREC Report Form 7-6, and the new Texas Standards of Practice. Hosted by InterNACHI’s Paul Roebuck, join TREC Deputy Executive Director Tony Slagle, Tony Renteria of TREC’s legal staff, TREC Lead Attorney Mike Malloy, TREC Inspectors Advisory Board Chair Shawn Emerick, and past Chair and Advisory Board Secretary Steven Rinehart who’ve all gathered to discuss the details and legal enforcement.
Vea al inspector maestro certificado Juan García realizar una inspección del baño.
Listen to Juan Garcia perform a bathroom inspection in Spanish.
Learn what to do next as an InterNACHI® Member. We will discuss what every member should do next in order to get trained, certified, and operate a profitable successful home inspection company. We'll talk about marketing, business, prices, software, real estate agents, website, and everything else you'd like to talk about.
Play this video for your prospects & clients to help sell your ancillary inspection as an InterNACHI® Certified Mould Inspector during your next home inspection.
Listen to TREC Inspector's Legal, Ethics, and Standards of Practice Webinar with TPREIA-InterNACHI®'s Paul Roebuck.
This webinar is designed to inform the attendees about the new and important changes taking place in the HVAC world. Listen to Chris Crawford and InterNACHI®’s Paul Roebuck as they discuss the changes that will affect HVAC operations.
In this free online webinar, we will learn how to perform a home inspection. We will review inspection images and follow the InterNACHI® Home Inspection Standards of Practice. We will find defects. We will also review the inspection report. We'll also talk about marketing, business, and making money as a successful home inspector. We'll be answering questions too. Visit https://www.nachi.org/webinars
Learn how to set specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely goals for your home inspection business inside the class at https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.htm.
As a home inspector, what should you charge for your home inspection fee? Learn how at https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.
Learn how to calculate profitable inspection fees for your home inspection business in https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.
Learn how you get to choose your annual salary as a certified home inspector in this class https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.
The point of being in business as an owner of a home inspection business is to make a ton of cash and to make a great living.
Here's a real actual schedule of a certified home inspector that makes $1,000 per day. https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.htm
Learn how to make $1,000 per day as an InterNACHI certified home inspector at https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.htm.
This is the introduction to the first step (Step 1) of the InterNACHI® Master Class for Home Inspectors at https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.htm.
There are 8 steps to InterNACHI's Master Class for Home Inspectors at https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.htm.
Take InterNACHI's free, online Master Class for Home Inspectors at https://www.nachi.org/masterclass.htm.
Learn how InterNACHI members can get free business provided by InterNACHI for free at https://www.nachi.org/inspection-leads.htm.
When asphalt shingles begin to lose their granular covering and start to deteriorate, crack, or curl, the shingles may need to be replaced.
Every roof should be inspected every year, especially after a severe hail and wind storm.
A home inspector must inspect the roof because any roof can leak, and it's required by the standards. To inspect a roof that is inaccessible or that can not be walked on safely, the inspector may use binoculars, look from other vantage points, use a drone, use an extendable non-conductive pole with a camera, or use a ladder to get to the roof’s edge.
Learn how roof inspections are performed during a home inspection. Inspecting the roof can be dangerous. Stay safe.
Learn what is required while performing an inspection of a roof during a home inspection.
Learn what a material defect is according to the Home Inspection Standards of Practice.
Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about your inspection company logo being uploaded into your InterNACHI® dashboard so that your profile on search engines looks professional.
Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about updating your profile with your inspection business website address to get more inspection job leads for free.
Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about your getting free inspection job leads by adding listings to your profile.
Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about using your certification logos and webseals on your home inspection business website.
Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about using promotional videos on your website.
Home maintenance involves the risk of bodily injury and damage to personal property. Don’t perform home repairs by yourself. Stay safe.
Learn business and marketing tips as a Florida-licensed and certified home inspector in this video recording of a recent live class with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko at the House of Horrors® in Florida.
Home maintenance is a primary responsibility for every homeowner. Staying on top of a seasonal home maintenance schedule is very important, and the neighborhood InterNACHI® Certified Home Inspector can help.
Throughout InterNACHI's free, online Introduction to Home Inspections Course, there are references to the InterNACHI® Home Inspection Standards of Practice.
The estate agent has a fiduciary duty to their client and, therefore, must recommend the very best inspectors. If the agent recommends a patty-cake inspector, an inspector who indirectly pays for the agent's recommendation or a cheap inspector, they violate their fiduciary duty to their client.
Every homeowner has similar concerns and questions related to maintaining their home. The following questions are those that all homeowners ask themselves.
The home inspector can inspect a home and report upon the home’s condition as it was at the time of the inspection. That is the main responsibility of the home inspector. A home inspection does not include predictions of future events, house warranties, or guarantees that nothing will ever go wrong.
Just like the engine of an automobile, a house works as a system of interdependent parts. Every part has an impact on the operation of many others. A typical home has over 10,000 systems and components. Visit https://www.nachi.org/introduction-home-inspection-course.htm
How do inspection photos help or hurt home inspectors? Watch guest presenter Derik Pomaville, InterNACHI CPI, and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko in this video recording of a recent live InterNACHI® Webinar. Register for the next one at https://www.nachi.org/webinars.