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NACHI’s Standards of Practice Committee, Code of Ethics Committee, Continuing Education Committee, and other committee seats are filled by inspectors from over 30 different states and Canadian provinces. NACHI has developed and offers its own compliance statements, negligent referral agreements, and pre-inspection agreements.
NACHI authors and distributes its own email newsletter for REALTORs and hosts an online advice column for inspectors. NACHI posts its articles in 3 different languages: English, Spanish, and Korean and recently contracted to create mirror sites in 12 languages. NACHI is also publisher of The NACHI Inspector Magazine.
NACHI worked with many Error and Omissions insurance companies and is currently in charge of gathering information via a survey from the entire inspection industry and sending it to inspection E&O underwriters. FREA, the inspection industry’s foremost insurer gives NACHI members a 10% discount.
Senator Tom Buford, running for U.S. Congress, recently announced his intentions to put forth a law requiring home inspection licensing boards to include at least one member of NACHI. Representative Frank Accavitti Jr who proposed state licensing spoke at our Michigan Convention in June of 2004. Many government officials and home inspection licensing board members attend NACHI meetings.
NACHI keeps track of and alerts the industry to manufacturer recalls, meetings, industry updates and newsbreaks. NACHI offers free link exchange, free email accounts, and websites.
NACHI and a Philadelphia law firm operate the NACHI Arbitration Service to handle consumer complaints against home inspectors. NACHI is developing a consumer recovery fund and offers members bonding.
NACHI recently took a bold step in Loveland, Colorado to expand its uncertified inspector complaint handling system in preparation of our plan to direct those consumer complaints to the local legislators that put forth any anti-consumer/NACHI licensing/registration regulation.
NACHI funds the Consumer Home Inspection Hotline (610) 917-8000 which helps the home buying public find certified inspectors.
NACHI funds www.BribeWatch.org, a consumer advocacy group which reports suspected corruption in home inspection and construction legislation. BribeWatch.org also protects consumers by disolving association monopolies and fighting association-biased restraint-of-free-trade home inspection legislation.
NACHI is associated with the NACHI Foundation a separate Maryland based registered charity which has relief fund for victims of licensed but uncertified inspectors.
NACHI offers free ride-a-longs to new inspectors and has a Report Review Committee which offers free report critiquing.
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