Originally Posted by
John McKenna
You need to read it again. Those who misrepresent something need corrected:
CMI Application - Certified Master Inspector
Have completed 1,000 fee-paid inspections or hours of inspection-related continuing education (combined) in your lifetime.
a. Experience: Inspections must have been performed for actual fee-paying clients,
but do not have to be your clients (
you can count inspections you performed while working for someone else). Limit one inspection per residence (3 inspections on one HOME count as one inspection).
b. Education: The Master Inspector Certification Board’s qualifying
continuing education subject matter is quite broad.
Anything one could reasonably deem to be inspection-related qualifies, including classroom, home study, and online courses and seminars. Business success, accounting, marketing, etc. courses do not count. Repeated courses do not count twice. Hours count hour-for-hour. For example: If it takes you 6 hours to complete a course, it counts as 6 hours. The Board realizes that applicants may not have maintained proof of every hour of continuing education accumulated but applicants should be able to offer a list substantially demonstrating completion of the hours of inspection-related education completed in their lifetime.
Bad business right there...
First off, if they (the clients) did not pay YOU, they were not a fee paid inspection on
your part-- you were not RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INSPECTION RESULTS OR THE REPORT. NOR, DID YOU HAVE TO COMPLETE BUT ONLY PART OF THE INSPECTION.
Example: There are some folks out on the west coast who use the 'Team' concept on every inspection. They have 4-5 inspectors go out to every inspection and one person may only do the electrical, one may do the roof, one may take NOTES
ONLY, one may do the HVAC. IN THIS EXAMPLE, THE INSPECTORS ARE GETTING CREDIT FOR DOING PROBABLY 6-8 (FULL) INSPECTIONS PER DAY WITHOUT HAVING EVER DONE ONE COMPLETE!!!
That's just wrong.
Using the criteria you have posted, I could qualify without ever having done any home inspections as a licensed TREC inspector. Although I have completed over 2800 inspections, my qualifications as an insurance adjuster ONLY would qualify for the CMI, having done well over 1400 residential scopes--and That's just wrong.
John, according to what you posted... the post Lewis made was not inaccurate. I quote (from Lewis): "performing inspections unaided is not one of the qualification".
Your posting of the requirements state: "(3 inspections on one HOME count as one inspection)."
No where does it state that 3 (or 4 or 5) inspector
s at one home count as one inspection-- JUST, you cannot inspect the same home three times, as stated, and have it count more than once. Also, no-where does it state that the whole home has to be inspected...
Litterly, you could have a whole 'TEAM' OF CMI's within a year under the above scenario.
This thing is made into too much of a 'lay-up' and designed for "the-more-the-merrier" instead of somthing that should be designed for a designation for
REAL achievement.
Just my opinion. Your mileage may vary...
Rich