Let's take a closer look at this whole longer-is-better thing, shall we? That might be a great line of discussion for you Monday morning quarterbacks and wheel chair generals. It is absolutely counterproductive to even consider that this concept is integrous in any other line of work. If any of you ever actually built houses, and I know it's a very small percentage of you who have, you cannot tell me that you spent more time on each successive house you built. Actually, maybe you did, and that's why you are no longer building houses. Otherwise, you worked hard to streamline your procedures and processes into a system that created better and better houses in less and less time. Granted there is a break-even point, but you never stopped working at arriving at that point and staying there. Right?

The list of analogies is endless. Which things that you do or pay to have done in your life should take more time on each successive occasion that the person performing the procedure spends on a job? Does it take you more time to mow the yard than it used to? Does your mechanic take more time each time he changes your oil for you? Is your barber or hairdresser now up to 4 or five freaking hours cutting what's left of your hair? God forbid that it takes your attorney more and more time . . .$$$!

What king of bull crap are we considering here? This whole idea is nothing but a hot smoldering patty of it. Too many inspectors tend to justify raising their prices with spending more time on the job. Wake up, educate yourself and get the job done in short order.

Now for those of you who work in my neck of the woods, I will certainly promote and support the idea that you spend more and more time on each inspection. After all, the market will only bear so much as regards your pricing. Your customers will eventually gravitate to me where they can have the same thing or more done for the same price in half the time.

Maybe some of you work exclusively for the retired and the homeless. That's fine, but not me. The clients I work for have lives to live, jobs to go to and families to care for. They do not cherish spending endless hours waltzing around with some schmuck who's belaboring the operation of the freaking oven timer or expounding endlessly on the inner workings of a sprinkler control panel.

Jeez!

Aaron