I agree that cash flow is likely the main reason why people are getting out of doing home inspections at this time. For newbies, like Scott mentioned, it maybe a combination of cash flow and some of the other items that I listed. I was told (I don't know how true the % is but I know it is a lot) that over 80% of the home inspectors in this area are part time home inspectors. The full time job to pay the bills and home inspections for extra cash or just can't afford to do home inspection full time yet. There are two guys that work for this one home inspection company that only do home inspections on weekends.

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I say lets merge all the home inspection organizations into one.

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