Nick Ostrowski
05-07-2007, 05:08 PM
It never bothered me but the masses have spoken and gotten a controversial section of the NAHI COE changed in regard to HIs performing repairs on properties they inspected. I received the following in an e-mail from NAHI today:
"After analyzing the results of the membership survey pertaining to our members thoughts and actions with Code of Ethics #6, the code has been revised to read as follows, "An Inspector shall not, directly or indirectly and for compensation, perform repairs on or recommend contractors to perform repairs on any component or system included in the inspection under the NAHI Standards of Practice. An Inspector may recommend or offer ancillary inspection services." All electronic and paper documents will be updated to reflect this change. Click this link to see the full NAHI Code of Ethics: http://www.nahi.org/NAHI-web-code-of-ethics.pdf"
Some people may see this change as a big step in the right direction but it is small peanuts to me. Now if the major HI organizations could include prohibition of realtor referrals in their COE, then we'd be getting somewhere. But that is a pipe dream.
"After analyzing the results of the membership survey pertaining to our members thoughts and actions with Code of Ethics #6, the code has been revised to read as follows, "An Inspector shall not, directly or indirectly and for compensation, perform repairs on or recommend contractors to perform repairs on any component or system included in the inspection under the NAHI Standards of Practice. An Inspector may recommend or offer ancillary inspection services." All electronic and paper documents will be updated to reflect this change. Click this link to see the full NAHI Code of Ethics: http://www.nahi.org/NAHI-web-code-of-ethics.pdf"
Some people may see this change as a big step in the right direction but it is small peanuts to me. Now if the major HI organizations could include prohibition of realtor referrals in their COE, then we'd be getting somewhere. But that is a pipe dream.