Comments on Virginia Certified Home Inspectors: Licensing Debate: Pandora's Box

More Items in Pandora's box:o Restrictions on wha...

2006-09-27T07:18:00.000-05:00

More Items in Pandora's box:
o Restrictions on what can be inspected
o Standardized inspection reporting format
o Control by competing interests (REALTORS?)

So what's in Pandora's box? As soon as someone pr...

2006-09-25T21:03:00.000-05:00

So what's in Pandora's box? As soon as someone proposes legislation, I suspect that private interests will line up to tack special provisions onto the law:
o Prohibition on exculpatory language (limitation of liabilty)
o Mandatory E&O (errors and ommission insurance)

Both of these are certain to drive up the cost of inspections and possibly drive good inspectors out of the business. This is what I think Mark Singer (our legislative Monitor) keeps warning us about.

Hollis

Right now, VAREI is doing this. But it's expensive...

2006-09-15T19:13:00.000-05:00

Right now, VAREI is doing this. But it's expensive and interest in VAREI is waning. I think a lot of inspectors may be thinking that the certification law closed the book and that there is no longer anything to worry about. I wonder though, if we're not just putting off the inevitable. If licensing is in our future; and if it's incumbent on us to stay involved; it may be wise of us to be proactive.

Waiting and watching for others to take the initiative and responding when they do, costs us time, effort and money during the wait and leaves us in a vulnerable defensive position when we are forced to respond.

Hollis