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Too Many Choices for Home Inspector Training?

Why We Think You Should Choose A Better School of Building Inspection

1. We have been training home inspectors a long time.

Since we began training home inspectors over 12 years ago, the number of training companies has increased over 10-fold. In states that have recently begun licensing home inspectors, training schools seem to pop up overnight. Some big publishing companies have recently entered the field. Has anyone at these big companies ever even done a home inspection?

2. We are a legitimate training company. We are an affiliate of ASHI, NAHI, CREIA, interNACHI, and FABI. We are also a member of the Better Business Bureau On-Line.

•  Watch out for companies that say they will certify you. Certification is left up to the states. When states do certify, they never recognize the "certification" from these companies.

• Watch out for companies that offer you "free membership" in an association. The legitimate home inspector associations have yearly fees that range from $295 to $395. Other so-called associations have often been established by the training company and are not recognized by the IRS as a not-for-profit association, nor are they recognized by others in the home inspection industry.

• Watch our for companies that offer you free inspector "tools" such as a ruler, compass, or methods to read blue prints.  Such "tools" are not even used in actual inspections.

3. We only do home inspector training. All of our training material has been developed by actual home inspectors. Plus, we get right into home inspection. We don't waste your time.  We don't teach locksmithing, tax preparation, medical transcribing, etc.

4. Our live classes are very hands-on and in-the-field oriented. Our classes are taught by experienced instructors who are home inspectors. Our instructors are also members of ASHI and NAHI. Although being a member is not required of a home inspector, it does show that our instructors have bothered to meet the rigid requirements to be members. Why haven't other companies bothered? We have had calls where the prospective student was told by another training course that if they attended their course, they would let them teach their next course. That certainly doesn't sound like an experienced inspector.

You leave class feeling like you can do home inspections.  We received an e-mail recently from someone who said they completed a competitor's course, but had no idea about how to actually do a home inspection.

5. Out costs are very reasonable. We offer a great product at a great price. We offer you value.  We keep prices down to benefit you.  We want to help people get into the home inspection business.  We feel it is one of those occupations where you can earn a decent living without having to go to college for 4-8 years. 

Other training companies that charge huge amounts of money will often say "You get what you pay for."  What they don't tell you is that a large amount of the money you spend goes directly to an association for their endorsement.  So actually you are paying for something you don't get.  Or the money goes to buying classroom space.  We hold our classes in hotel conference rooms and pass the savings on to you.  We also feel going out to real homes for hands-on training is the best way to learn, instead of sitting in a classroom all day.

6. We don't use telemarketers to keep calling and bugging you. In fact, the only time we will call is to return your calls.

7.  Our DVDs are not just talking heads.  To cut the training time for new home inspectors, we developed these DVDs which show you close to 2,000 actual defects and scenes just as we saw them on site. It can be almost as though you are there training with us on 100's of inspections.  Most other training videos are either only "talking heads", i.e. a videotape of a seminar, or a walk through one house.  With our DVDs, you see actual defects from hundreds of homes throughout the United States.  (A competitor copied our idea, but they have fewer scenes, and their scenes are from Canada).  Identifying defects is really the heart of a home inspection.

8.  We don't try to sell you unnecessary equipment.  We realize that most of the tools inspectors use can be purchased at local hardware stores for much cheaper than through inspection catalogues.  The only tool we offer is a natural gas detector, because they are often difficult to find in the local hardware store.

9.  We are recognized by E&O insurance companies.  Most insurance companies will not sell you E&O insurance unless you are properly trained.  See www.allenins.com/Home_Inspectors.html to learn more about this insurance. 

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How Does A Better School of Building Inspection's Live Course Compare With Other Courses???

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	Our Course	Company ________	Company ________
1.  High Quality Program	X
A.  See over 200 roofs in person	X
B.  See over 200 exteriors in person	X
C.  See over 200 structures in person	X
D.  Find 50 to 100 problems in each of 2 homes in one day and finish by 3:00 p.m.	X
2.  Small Class Size--fewer than 16 people	X
3.  Emphasizes Identifying Defects, the "heart of home inspection"	X
4.  Teaches Marketing--including some techniques most home inspectors don't use	X
5.  Teaches Extensively about Liability Issues--We answer all you questions about liability	X
6.  Covers ASHI/NAHI/NHIE Exam Home Inspector Technical Topics	X
7.  Covers Relevant Home Inspection Topics	X
8.  "Take class slides home with you" in the form of DVDs.	X

 1.  High Quality: Our live course includes the most extensive hands-on and in-the-field training exercises that we know of.  A typical schedule is mornings in the classroom, afternoons in the field.  The class includes 100's of roofs, structures, exteriors and numerous "mini-inspections."

We pattern our program after the way home inspectors are trained in home inspection firms.  New employees are typically taken out on a number of inspections, sometimes as many as 300 to 500, even if they have decades of construction experience. This is done in the hope that they will see enough defects so they won't walk right by them when they get out on their own.   What we are trying to do is essentially the same thing.  We emphasize showing you the defects.

 2.  Small Class Size: We limit our class to 16 people in each live class.  Imagine going on a field inspection with over 30 people in the house.

 3.  Emphasizes Identifying Defects: We show you close to 2,000 real life defects and scenes in the DVDs and hundreds more in the field exercises-- Not diagrams, not text, but rather real life scenes just as we saw them, in the hopes it will almost be as if you were there on-site with us.  Other programs provide low quality "talking head" videos--videos primarily involving an instructor giving a seminar.  Remember high school?  Try staying awake in one of those.  Other videos take you through an inspection on just one or a few home.  Remember, tell them to "show me the defects." 

 4.  Teaches Marketing: We tell you about some marketing techniques that home inspectors have used to earn well over $100,000 a year--in some cases charging more than anyone else in their area and still turning down business.  Certainly it is worthwhile looking at these techniques.  We also warn you about illegal marketing techniques you should avoid.

5.  Teaches Liability Issues: Almost everyone is interested in reducing liability.  We believe we cover this topic ten times better than our nearest competitor.  We explain the principles of law that generally apply to home inspectors.  We walk you through nine actual home inspector cases to show you how the courts have applied those principles in specific inspector circumstances.  Remember, this is an area where you want to know the information up front, not after the fact.  The better you understand your responsibility, the better you will serve your client, the buyer. 

And, we don't leave this topic in the classroom until we have answered all your questions. 

6.  Covers Exam Topics: We firmly believe that the best way to improve an individual's chances of passing a test is to be sure to provide them with virtually all the published home inspector technical topics on that exam. Our program is the only one we know of that does that.  We hear about other programs, some of which even guarantee you will pass the exam or you can come back and take their course again.  We have heard from students from some of these courses who tell us that when they took the exam, they didn't feel the course even covered 15% of the topics. What good was it going to do them to pay travel, hotel and meals, to go back and take a course for free, which didn't even help in the first place?  We know of no other course that can say that they cover virtually all the published home inspector technical topics on these exams.  It should be noted that ASHI has recently started asking code and new construction related questions on their exam.  We feel strongly that this is not good.  Home inspectors do not do code inspections.  But, in our effort to assist you, we suggest that you use our New Construction Forms Disc and/or come to our 2-Day New Construction course.   Please note, NAHI's exam is a true home inspector exam.     

7.  Covers Pertinent Topics: Unless you plan on exclusively doing new construction inspections, current building codes and standards will not help you evaluate older or existing homes as much as knowing what problem items effect the condition of those homes.  Although some "home inspection training programs" claim they teach you what to look for in a home inspection, too often entire books, or a large percentage of the pages or diagrams in their manual(s) are devoted to how items are installed nowadays.  This is poor assistance for learning what defects to look for in existing homes.  We attempt to show you how things work not how to build something new.  Remember, you must tell them to "show me the defects."  Relatively speaking, once you take out the irrelevant material such as code books, "Home Time" new construction videos, How-to-Build books, etc., how many hours do you project are involved in the live instruction?  We firmly believe that our complete package (combined live and home study), when used effectively, involves up to as much as a one month, full time course.  We know of no other course that can say that unless they include their code books, new construction tapes, etc.  Thus, we believe our program is the best targeted home inspector training program available.

8.  Take Class Slides Home With You: We know of no other live course where you can take the "slides" home at the end of class.  How many slides can you remember from a one-week course?  Clearly there is a need to have the multiple exposures to real life defects our video program provides. With the add-on's, you can have the DVDs to view whenever you want.  

 In the DVDs we show you the defects just as we saw them when we were out on-site.  It can almost be as if you were there with us.  In essence, instead of taking you out on hundreds of inspections over months of time, we are bringing those homes to you.

 Another important thing to remember, in our DVDs, all the scenes are from the United States.  Other video producers chose to use scenes from other countries.

 

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