Eric, on the "how to" subject, you may want to talk to your insurance
carrier if you have E & O as well as liability.

I would think the apprentice would need to be listed on your policies.

In any case, you can bet you will be liable for anything your guy does,
so protect yourself.

I am thinking if I did sponsor someone, I would make him an employee,
so to speak, and I would be supervising everything he did, reports
included, until he passed the test and got out on his own.

Of course, you know you will be training your competition; which is
why back in the old days, it was tough to find a sponsor. I wound up
driving 200 miles round trip for each of the first 25 inspections.

I think back in 1995, I paid $25 for each of the second tier inspections
that my sponsor reviewed... seems like that was 175 inspections.

I wonder if some of these guys will challenge this in court?

I am not familiar with the process, but it sounds like TREC has made rules
to implement the new laws, not necessarily that the legislature changed
the law.

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Jim Luttrall
Mr. Inspector.net, Inc.
Allen, Texas 75002