Home Inspector Podcast: 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.
Learn about simple spans of floor joists, including load, bearing, span, height and width of joists, bridge blocking, and the code.
Listen to “Home Inspection Agreements – Why They Matter and Where You Can Get One" Webinar with Ben Garrison and Joseph Denneler for more webinars, please visit www.nachi.org/webinars
Listen to this podcast about the "Benefits of Home Inspector Insurance" Webinar with Ben Garrison and Joseph Denneler
for more webinars, please visit; www.nachi.org/webinars
Listen to this webinar with TREC IAC's Shawn Emerick, Stephen Rinehart & TPREIA-InterNACHI®'s Paul Roebuck.
for more, please visit; www.nachi.org/webinars
Join InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko with his guest Certified Professional Inspector CPI® Dillon Winiecki for this commercial property inspection training class. Dillon is an Arizona-licensed home inspector and owns Protect Property Inspections, Arizona Commercial Property Inspections, and PPI Sewer Inspections based in Phoenix. He is also the founder, owner, and lead instructor of Inspection Career Training Academy, an InterNACHI® Partner School. Become a Certified Commercial Property Inspector by visiting https://ccpia.org/.
This course provides insight into the importance of proper foundation flood vents and dry floodproofing techniques for buildings located in a flood zone. Consumers are demanding more home inspectors to be knowledgeable on flood protection and flood resilient homes. The course will also analyze the role of building compliance in securing lowering flood insurance rates and what mitigation solutions are available for both residential and non residential structures.
Discuss on the InterNACHI forums
Join guest presenter Andrew Sams, CPI and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for this free, online LIVE home inspection training class. Andrew Sams is the owner of Alpine Building Performance, LLC, a multi-inspector property inspection company that he founded in 2016. He holds a B.S in Building Science and Construction Management as well.
Learn how to be a successful Florida-licensed and certified home inspector with these business and marketing tips by InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko.
Join a group of home inspectors and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko as we talk about how to schedule more jobs, applying the best marketing strategies, how to convert clients with overwhelming value, and much more. We’ll also do a few impromptu website critiques. Discuss on the InterNACHI Inspection Community Forum.
Christian Adams (former real estate broker) will be sharing proven steps you can take to find and partner with top agents in your market to systemize your referral streams. Discover the free tools you can use to help grow your business while reducing marketing spend.
Join InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko with his guest Eric Grubbs for this free online home inspection training webinar. You'll learn about the four categories of gas furnaces and their heating cycles, and how the cooling cycle works for air conditioners and heat pumps. Become a certified HVAC inspector at https://www.nachi.org/certification.htm.
InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko talks about training and certification, websites, next steps, marketing, business, job lead, and much more. Discuss on the InterNACHI forum.
Alicia Gromicko from FASTSITE4U.COM describes the top key features that every great home inspector website should have, including analytics, hero pics, call to action, state your value, benefits, social proof, get certified, risk reduction, logo, action shots, online scheduling, and much more.
Saturday Morning Webinar. Join our free, live interactive InterNACHI® Webinar with Ben Gromicko as he talks about the 15 steps to success for new InterNACHI® members and newly certified inspectors. We'll talk about certification, marketing, inspecting, getting new jobs, business, websites, equipment, report software, and anything else you'd like to talk about. Feel free to bring your questions.
In this free webinar, InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko will talk about designing a website for a home inspection business that converts site visitors into scheduled clients, including (a) the resources to build your own website, (b) who to hire to build a website for you, and (c) the basic features that every great website should have.
Sporecyte is a world leader in AI-based diagnostics. We've developed an air screening tool for mold and particulate classification and counting – with pictures of over 150 mold classifications and 10 particulates. Sporecyte Air Screen for home inspectors is fast, simple, inexpensive, and easy to use. Earn extra income while providing valuable information for homeowners and home buyers.
Learn from presenters about ActivePure® Technology. It is an air cleaning technology that works continuously to clean and protect air and surfaces 24 hours a day.
This is a round table discussion with 3 real estate agents moderated by Lee Eckroth with questions submitted by home inspectors. The questions can be anything an inspector has wanted to know from the perspective of an agent. Best way to market their business? Expectations? Communications? Best information a home inspector can provide to agents?
Join guest presenter Glenn Stephens, CPI and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for this free, online LIVE home inspection training class. Glenn started G. Stephens & Associates, Inc. in 2011, using his three Florida licenses as a Certified Residential Contractor, Certified Roofing Contractor, and Home Inspector to educate homeowners about their home and how to protect it. Glenn has performed more than 3,700 Inspections.
Join guest presenter Mike Leggett, CPI and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for this free, online LIVE home inspection training class. Mike is the owner of The BrickKicker of Georgia, a multi-inspector home inspection company based in Athens, GA.
Discuss the path to become a RESNET HERS Rater by taking Bullseye Building Consultants HERS Rater Training and Certification. It will open up new revenue opportunities for home inspectors.
Does your protocol for inspecting roofs satisfy the TREC Standards of Practice requirements? This class will explain what is required of Texas home inspectors when they inspect roof-covering materials. Texas TREC #39757. This webinar is approved for 2 TREC CE Hours and 2 InterNACHI CE Hours. Free & Open to Everyone.
This class will present a pictorial introduction of inspecting the forms, the materials, make-ups, plumbing and tendons. Texas TREC approval #39761 (4 CE Hours) & 4 InterNACHI CE Hours available. This class is free, online, and open to everyone.
Learn how new members of InterNACHI® can start getting new inspection jobs. In this free, online live webinar, we'll be talking about business resources, marketing strategies, scheduling, communication, websites, and networking. We'll also be answering questions live, so please attend and join the discussion.
Understand airspace, night operations, flying over people and privacy issues. This webinar will go over best practices to avoid problems and keep you safe and legal. We will go over airspace as well as programs to help you understand the airspace you are in. The presenter will talk about pre-planning your flight mission, risk management and ways to respond and comply with private citizen requests or law enforcement questioning.
This class introduces attendees to inspections and installation guidelines to use during a home inspection. Learn about what is included, when to do this type of an inspection and what to look for while performing a stucco inspection.
Join us for this free, online webinar. Learn about healthy home inspections and how it can benefit your inspection business.
In this webinar we will discuss the Inspectedhouses.com system and how this unique marketing tool enables inspectors to be more valuable to agents, connect directly with buyers and sellers, have a niche in their own market, and promote the concept of Pre Listing Home Inspections. Inspectors attending this webinar will be given a FREE Trial to use the system so they will have a risk free opportunity!!
A Texas Attorney will discuss claims made against home inspectors and the benefits of having a Pre-Inspection Agreement. The class subject will include methods to help home inspectors avoid having a claim made against them and information that a pre-inspection agreement should include. This class is free, online, and open to everyone.
Watch InterNACHI’s Colorado Chapter Meeting for April at which Ben Gromicko talks about home inspections, business, marketing, and tips on growing your business. Guest speaker Russell La Plante also discusses adding radon testing to your services.
This workshop will cover topics such as distinguishing yourself as a commercial building inspector, professionalism, target marketing, where to spend your advertising budget, pricing jobs and submitting professional quotes, partnering with local tradespeople, and more.
In this session, we’ll explore different ways of continuing to acquire new clients, discuss how to maintain rapport with existing clients, and cover how to communicate with consumers about the inspection process during socially-distanced walk-throughs and conversations. We’ll also discuss how to coordinate and communicate with clients using tech tools to ensure great service, and discuss opportunities to expand your business.
You get only one chance to make a good first impression, so make sure your marketing looks polished and professional. The designers from InterNACHI’s Member Marketing Team will explain the importance of having a unique logo for your business, as well as how your branding represents you and your company. They’ll also discuss some design do’s and don’ts so that your marketing doesn’t un-sell your services.
Learn from inspection industry professionals about how to establish and build your online presence using today’s best practices, including website design trends, SEO tactics, social media, online review building, and more. We’ll also talk about some traditional marketing efforts, like relationship-building, sponsorships, and community efforts that can help support your website’s visibility online.
We’ll discuss the value of adding additional services to your inspection business, including we started our own business, why we added additional services, and how those services have helped us grow our business. We’ll cover training requirements, reporting needs, potential liability issues, marketing considerations; and other issues that may arise as a result of adding new services.
Get tips on how to market your home inspection business. In this workshop, you'll learn about the effects that COVID has had on inspector marketing, and how to prepare your business for a post-pandemic world.
Discover how home inspectors are using social media and online searches to expand their business reach in this increasingly digital age. Not only has COVID changed the consumer landscape, but millennial home buyers are creating a historic shift in the way businesses are communicating with consumers. This growth-centric webinar will explore five digital marketing strategies that are helping home inspectors acquire new customers and generate referral partnerships in this online world.
Get tips on how to successfully add inspectors to your business and transition to a multi-inspector firm.
Join InterNACHI® staff for a virtual general session to kickstart Inspector Boost 2021! This is just the opening session, to attend workshops you must register for each individual workshop.
Join us for this free, online webinar where presenters Susan Payne and Miles McKnight will demonstrate the robot live using a mobile display unit that replicates standard ductwork and a scaled-down crawl space.
Join SimpleLab for this free, online webinar to learn how to sample and test for lead in drinking water.
In this free live webinar, Yifu, the founder of Housky.io, will introduce and demo the startup platform and answer inspector questions. Housky is an online platform solely dedicated to the home inspectors. It aims to help inspector's businesses, handle their marketing and customer relationship management. Most importantly, Housky.io is a fair referral-based payment model and not a lead-based business model.
In this free, online live webinar we’re going to perform a home inspection and review the inspection report. We'll also talk about running a successful business, applying marketing strategies, getting started as a new inspector, boosting your existing business, and anything else you’d like. Bring your questions and join the discussion. This webinar is open to everyone (InterNACHI® members and non-members alike).
Do you want to increase your revenue? It’s possible with Ecosense. Join Marc Rosenfeld, Ecosense Sales Director, to learn how Ecosense can help start and/or grow your radon inspection business. This webinar will compare and contrast Ecosense’s industry leading radon detector solutions with other current brands and will show the benefits of using our comprehensive customer support and a range of business development tools to help you set up for success in 2021.
Introduction to the property inspection business in the Middle East. What are the licensing requirements, business model, and property market condition?
What if you could dramatically reduce your chances of falling off your extension ladder in almost any situation? What if you could feel totally secure coming off a roof onto your ladder every time? You can reduce your chances of injury and death in less than 10 seconds using our exclusive ladder safety tool. Presenter Elaine Williamson will show you how to increase job safety, reduce injuries and have peace of mind on every residential extension ladder climb, every time.
Join Ben Gromicko and CPI® Matthew Hawley for an online webinar to gain tips on how to market your inspection business as a new home inspector.
Learn how to use SimpleLab water testing, and how to get started improving customer satisfaction and your bottom line.
Inspectors will learn what steps to take when dealing with a disgruntled client or lawyer and how your insurance carrier can help.
In this free, live webinar for home inspectors, Keith Scherzinger of the Home Inspection Institute will be talking with InterNACHI’s Ben Gromicko and other home inspectors about the most valuable narratives to write in your inspection reports.
A Texas Attorney will discuss claims made against home inspectors and the benefits of having a Pre-Inspection Agreement. The class subject will include methods to help home inspectors avoid having a claim made against them and information that a pre-inspection agreement should include. Pending TREC approval
In this free online InterNACHI® Webinar with Chris Ranwell, Global Product Director for Protimeter Moisture Meters, and Tom Rochenski, National Sales Manager for Protimeter Moisture Meters, teach the best practices using moisture meters and tips on understanding the readings of the meters.
Watch the free, online InterNACHI® Denver-Boulder Chapter Meeting from Wed., Dec. 2, as presenters Ben Gromicko, Lon Henderson, Gary Sloan, Julie Erck, and Jonathan Ramirez discuss home inspections, marketing strategies, and tips on growing your business.
This primer will go over the typical plumbing system from supply to the waste lines. This class recording talks about common terms used in plumbing systems, the types of materials used, and the common problems found during a home inspection.
Listen to this InterNACHI® Webinar podcast recording and learn how to become a successful home inspector.
During this webinar master electrician Tommy Davis will discuss the potential electrical hazards of knife blade disconnect switches, used for solar, swimming pools, jacuzzis, heat pumps, furnaces and water heaters.
InterNACHI’s newest vendor-partner, Textellent, will be co-hosting a webinar to discuss how home inspectors can grow their business using texting to: -allow clients to easily schedule appointments using text reminders; -share links to reports without revealing your private cell phone number; -streamline communication during busy times; -maintain a history of all text communications; and -boost retention with real estate partners by systematically texting them year- round.
Rewatch the raffle drawing from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention. Prizes included Flir C5 thermal camera, digital marketing plans, home inspection software subscriptions, and much more!
This class recording, From the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, takes the often overlooked and unexciting topic of office management and reveals how it can be the hidden key to astonishing business success. Learn from 20-year industry veteran Paul Zak as he outlines critical steps any home inspector can take to significantly increase revenue, help drive down costs, improve efficiency and effectiveness, and dramatically boost their bottom line and quality of life.
Commercial inspections are fast becoming one of the newest services in the home inspection industry. Like any other part of the business, there are risks associated with it. This recorded session, from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, looks at most of the aspects of the commercial inspection and discusses the basic steps an inspector can take to maintain the highest level of personal safety while providing superior commercial inspections. The novice and seasoned experts will both get useful information out of this session.
This presentation recording, from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, introduces home inspectors to the basics of infrared technology and how it can help them conduct a more thorough home inspection for their clients. This class is not intended to actually teach home inspectors how to perform thermal imaging inspections, but, rather, to provide information to help them decide whether they want to add the service to their home inspections.
This class recording, from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, focuses on the differences in foundation cracks that home inspectors commonly encounter. Home inspectors should be knowledgeable enough to recognize whether cracks and other readily visible evidence of structural movement warrant further evaluation by a structural engineer or not. All concrete cracks, but all cracks are not equal. Is a crack a simple stress crack, shrinkage crack, thermal expansion-contraction crack, some type of mechanical damage, or actual foundation movement? What is the crack doing? Cracks are pieces of the inspection puzzle that we assemble on every inspection. But when should we call for further evaluation by a structural engineer?
In this recording, from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, learn from a licensed real estate agent and broker how many agents work with inspectors, why many agents think home inspectors are “deal-killers,” and how to overcome this perception. Most importantly, discover how to become a valuable resource for brokers and build them into a part of your company’s network for lead-generation. You will walk out with new and innovative insights into both educating real estate agents and building your network of agents and brokers to truly grow your business!
This workshop recording, from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, covers the latest 2020 National Electrical Code® requirements for GFCIs in a residential dwelling. Included is a review of the history of the GFCI, how GFCIs work, safety considerations, testing methods, and how the inspector should address requirements in the inspection report. Meters and testing devices will be demonstrated on a display of GFCI devices.
This recorded workshop, from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, features photos taken the morning after Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida. Discussion centers on different types of structural failures and how better inspection procedures could have saved numerous types of structures. Additional training will be presented regarding how to categorize existing structures, how to evaluate cracks in structures, how to properly read product approvals, and other protocols to ensure hurricane resilience.
Ever wonder what the top home inspection companies are doing to be successful? In this class recording, from the 2020 Professional Inspectors Convention, learn important tips from the most successful companies in the country. See how they got to where they are, and how you can implement their strategies – including administrative, time-management, customer service, marketing, and morale – in your own company's plan.