On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:24:48 -0800, Jim wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:27:01 GMT, Dan wrote:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 22:28:56 GMT, Lit Ticker
wrote:

Does anyone have experience in this area? There was an ad in the local
paper for a class that was 60 hours (10 hrs per day, Friday, Sat and
Sun spread out over two weekends). It included one field trip to
participate in a home inspection. After the class, you were supposed
to be prepared enough to pass a certification test in Illinois. I live
in Ohio where there is no certification requirements. The cost was
$1795, which after researching other classes on the web, wasn't
unreasonable. There is an opportunity to make $100/hr since each home
inspection takes 3 hrs to complete and typically costs $275 - $325.
The guy I spoke with said he knows one person that's making $200K/year
but is doing 3 inspections per day which is pushing it. I imagine the
hardest part of this business would be marketing your self to realtors
and getting your name known. The yellow page had quite a few home
inspectors available but I'm not sure what the demand would be to know
if the market is saturated. Does anyone know of any pitfalls to this
line of work? TIA
Lit Ticker


In my area of the country, there are some hot-button issues with home
inspectors. Dry-rot is one of these issues and if the home inspector
misses it, by not going down a tight crawl space and thoroughly
checking every area, they can and will be sued by the new owner of the
property when the s..t hits the fan.

Beachcomber