Don't get burned by shoddy home inspection

Not all inspectors are qualified — and some are downright unscrupulous

By Herb Weisbaum
MSNBC contributor
Updated: 1:47 p.m. ET Aug 1, 2007

You’d have to be a fool to buy a house without having it inspected first. The challenge is to find a competent home inspector who can give you an accurate picture of the property, so you know whether to go forward with the purchase.

Read the full article here.

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With the embarrassment of Mallory-gate weighing down our profession the $64,000 question is... Will ASHI's hooking up with NAHI be a bigger debacle than the branding program?

I took upon myself to email crack investigative reporter Herb Weisbaum Mallory's deposition and the link to our discussion here to find out his opinion. You see leadership does count for something.

Yes, it does, and, someday, maybe you will grow mature enough to exhibit some.

By the way, did you also email ALL of the pertinent material to that reporter? Including ALL depositions? All relevant acts by Nick and NACHI?

A real leader would have.

An underling reaching to set off an alarm would only email what their boss wanted them to.

Hate to be the one to clue you in on something, but that alarm has already been rung, and everyone is already out of the building awaiting the "All Clear" to go back in.

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Jerry Peck, Construction / Litigation Consultant
Ormond Beach, Florida
Construction Litigation Consultants, LLC ( www.ConstructionLitigationConsultants.com )

Jerry,

You must go round is a state of perpetual frustration from not being able to enforce any of your many edicts & decrees.

I don't answer to you, not now, not ever you know so that why ask? Besides old Herb bills himself as an investigative reporter, I say let him investigate on his own, from what I sent him if he is worth his salt he should be able to figure it out. So... Will ASHI's hooking up with NAHI be a bigger debacle than the branding program?

As a NACHI member (primarily because of the local chapter) I'm at this moment looking at my invoice for next years dues and wondering: "Do I really want to fund this lawsuit factory?".

From what I can tell, the only folks that are really concerned about this lawsuit of Nicks are those dozen or so posters on the NACHI board who are slapping him on the back. Does anyone outside of NACHI really care about this? I don't think so.

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Scott Patterson
Spring Hill, TN
http://www.traceinspections.com

Some spin Scott, but no matter how you twist it this thread has nothing to do with NACHI lawsuits and everything to do with the assumption that ASHI is somehow in bed with NAHI after their Executive Director publicly humiliated herself and our profession. Do you really think that Mallory's actions will be of no consequence to ASHI? For the record, unlike Jerry Peck I am an ASHI member and I do not approve of ASHI cavorting with NAHI.

ASHI may not have a choice at being linked with Mallory when the feds require that she name names as a part of her plea bargain.

Whatever Mallory is alleged to have done has nothing to do with ASHI. I read a good part of her depo and I failed to see anything the incriminates ASHI. No name, dates or places. I have also failed to see anything that humiliates her. Some poor choices maybe but that is about it.

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Scott Patterson
Spring Hill, TN
http://www.traceinspections.com

NACHI horndog Jim Bushart found in Mallory's briefs, news at 11.

So now the White Rabbit is in Mallory's pants!

Does she know about this?

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Jerry Peck, Construction / Litigation Consultant
Ormond Beach, Florida
Construction Litigation Consultants, LLC ( www.ConstructionLitigationConsultants.com )

Rumor has it NAHI has a key witness... that right folks the dog who Mallory claims took the NACHI exam is willing to testify in this matter. Fido's deposition has just been leaked, bad dog, on the newspaper!

Q: What do you call the part of a house that covers the building?
A: Roof

Q: What is the principal characteristic of sandpaper?
A: Rough

Q: Why is lumber milled before building a house?
A: Bark

Q: What is a common material used for driveways?
A: Gravel

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Obviously this is some bright pooch but these questions look more like the one's found in the North Carolina Home Inspector Licensing Exam as opposed to the questions found within the NACHI on-line exam.
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I'd say the pooch took your Assurance Check ICC class and became very eloquent.
Good job, Joe, training "dogs" is your destiny.

Speaking of rumors, can anyone verify or refute the rumor that NAHI's Executive Director either has already or will resign on Monday?

Dom,

Are you through NAHI now representing that dogs can pass the NACHI on-line exam and the ICC Exams hosted & proctored through Promissor?

I can honestly say of the hundreds of students who have attended our seminars or purchased our home study course none have been dogs, but if you are interested I think we may be able to find you a seat at our next ICC Boot Camp.

The reality is once you are ICC Certified, everything else becomes much less important, ask your good buddy Jeff Hooper.

Joe.

Including your rants, I'm sure.

I wouldn't blame her if she did. The NAHI board and their brainy lawyers hung her out to dry. With all the contentiousness of these issues, any lawyer who fails to get a protective order on Mallory's deposition should resign as well.

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David Nice
http://www.nationalcertified.com
National Certified Inspection Services, Inc.Wauwatosa, WI

With the embarrassment of Mallory-gate weighing down our profession the $64,000 question is... Will ASHI's hooking up with NAHI be a bigger debacle than the branding program?

With the recent hooking up, by ASHI and another professional HI org this could be a good thing for our profession and members of all orgs involved.

Dan, I was not aware that ASHI had "hooked up" with NAHI or any other organization.

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Scott Patterson
Spring Hill, TN
http://www.traceinspections.com

I was refering to ASHI and CREIA at the convention along with the local event scheduled next year between AZ ASHI and CREIA.

Dan,

The significance is so underwhelming Scott missed it, sorta kinda on the scale of a fart in a windstorm, no cigar.