It must be that time of year. I received this e-mail today:

"Hello! I am writing with a special offer from the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors. We are a great organization helping promote and educate Home inspectors, and anyone in the inspection field. I am
writing to offer you a discount on a NACHI membership! The benefits are OUT OF THIS WORLD! You can only get this discount by contacting me at this
e-mail: ***********@nachi.org.

NACHI supports its members and provides numerous benefits. Once you join, you’ll see how great the NACHI family is. Please e-mail if you are interested in this great offer, or if you have any questions. I do appreciate your time!

****** ****
NACHI staff

* I see you are a member of NAHI, but NACHI has so much to offer, I wanted to go ahead & say hello. We have continuing education seminars all over the US. And plenty of inspectors have dual memberships. Let me know if
you are interested. Thanks!"

Here you go Nick...

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Joseph P. Hagarty
Main Line Inspections, Inc.
http://www.householdinspector.com

Is there any truth to the rumor that Nick will be hosting an "Ask NACHI" thread on this very message board?

For your viewing enjoyment:
I'm over here now.. - NACHI Message Board
Inspectors who bash realtors... - NACHI Message Board

Nick,

The comment about your being a NAHI member was in the email? Seems quite strange that it was so personalized.

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Eric Barker
Moraine Woods Consulting, Inc.
Barrington, IL

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." ~ Thomas Jefferson

He was a slave owner.

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Dave

You got me Eric. I guess the personalized touch is intended to install a warm and fuzzy feeling.

I feel so left out. I didn't get any message...

Explain to me what that has to do with anything?

Last time I looked over there, they were "limiting" the membership to only 10,000 and were weeding out the deadwood to make room for the multitudes waiting to join.

With the demise of the housing boom and the relentless pursuit of licensing legislation everywhere it is highly likely that membership has suffered a blow across all organizations.

Once licensing is established everywhere though chances are real good associations will become powerless and most likely obsolete, well at least those national associations who traded the control of their SoP for a bowl of porridge.

Me neither.......

Finally

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Eric Van De Ven Magnum Inspections Inc. (954) 340-6615
www.magnuminspections.com
I still get paid to be suspicious when I got nothing to be suspicious about!

NACHI is a great Home Inspection Org. The education they provide their members is great.

Its to bad there is so much bashing between the HI Orgs. I think all the Orgs are great and anyone who is a member of one is doing so to gain more knowledge and better themselves, and to help each other.

You forgot to mention deceiving the public.

Captain

Mitch,

The public could care less what Org. one belongs too. I'd say about 98% of the time they haven't heard of any of the the Orgs anyways.

I have enjoyed my NACHI membership.

Me too.

me too

Heck if we are going to give a plug for HI orgs.

My experience has been that 50% of my customers that hired me from my monthly direct mailing stated.. one of the reasons they hired me was due to my membership in ASHI..

In 16 years of inspecting, I may have had 10-20 who even asked, and before I was ASHI, they accepted that I was not, and after I quit ASHI, they accepted that I was not.

I think it all depends on how you promote yourself.

If you promote yourself as "ASHI", "NAHI", "NACHI", they will probably say 'Yeah, that's why I hired you, because you are ... ', when they really do not know much (or anything) about the organization you belongs to, only that you said you belonged to some organization and they think 'oh, that must be a good thing'.

If you promote yourself for what you can do, they really do not care what organization you belong to, if any - it's 'can you do what you say you can, and, if you can, you've got my business and that of all of my friends'. That's the way I promoted myself, and that's how I got my clients - from those referrals.

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Jerry Peck, Construction / Litigation Consultant
Construction Litigation Consultants, LLC ( www.ConstructionLitigationConsultants.com )
EastWestData (www.EastWestData.com )

I think it all depends on how you promote yourself.

Very true Jerry.
I found taking advantage of belonging to a professional org and having an org website where I can refer my customers to is a valuable tool.
The ones that hired me, instead of another inspector, hired me partially due to that tool.
After that it's up to me to prove myself and earn the 90 plus % referal rate that I enjoy every month..