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The National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (NACHI) is the world’s largest most elite home inspection association. A non-profit organization with members in all 50 states and 21 countries, NACHI is the international home of over 9400 inspectors worldwide. NACHI’s membership increases steadily at the rate of 300 per month on average. NACHI has over 55 local chapters in the U.S. with more forming at the rate of two per week. NACHI is present at or sponsors nearly every major real estate and home inspection industry event in the U.S. has a yearly convention, and has free home inspection training seminars and courses throughout the U.S. NACHI’s sister organization InterNACHI has members in a dozen countries. NACHI’s Singapore Chapter has members from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Hong Kong. There are over 200 Canadian members of NACHI. NACHI recently partnered with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) to distribute smoke detectors and fire safety literature using NACHI home inspectors. The NACHI Foundation's public service announcements play some 7,000 times a month on radio stations across North America. NACHI’s Standards of Practice is now the industry standard. This new version is by far the largest, most comprehensive set of guidelines available to inspectors. Twelve years in the making, and over 20 pages long, this latest revision elevates NACHI's Standards of Practice to the nation's definitive standard for the professional home inspection industry. NACHI promotes a high standard of professionalism, business ethics, and inspection procedures with its Code of Ethics. NACHI’s Continuing Education, free hands-on training, free online inspection courses, and free inspection video library all help keep our members the best they can be. Operating many hundreds of websites, NACHI reaches millions of consumers, inspectors, and REALTORs every month. Our 5,000+ page flagship site, nachi.org, receives over 5 million hits per month alone and is now one of the internets most popular sites enjoyed by over 58,000 unique visitors a month. NACHI hosts the inspection industries largest photo inspection message board with over 40,000 topics integrated into a web gallery. Many government officials and state regulators use NACHI’s open message board to interact with the home inspection industry because it is un-moderated and freedom of speech is protected. Recently NACHI worked with investigators from Washington and Illinois in uncovering a home inspection insurance fraud. Washington Insurance Commissioner’s investigator spoke at our Spokane Chapter meeting and credited NACHI. NACHI dominates the internet operating 1,400 websites with 23,000 more covert websites planned for this year. Each of these operations is many hundreds of times as active as any competing site on the internet. NACHI has its own Canadian and Singapore websites, its own local Chapter websites, owns its own dedicated servers in 4 countries, owns the Real Estate Referral Network, and owns FindAnInspector.US and InspectorSEEK.com the nation’s largest inspector search engines. NACHI has hundreds of inspector vendor relationships each providing NACHI discounts on everything from reporting systems to printer ink. NACHI has negotiated discounts for its members on laboratory services, books, courses, videos, tools, mold training, wood infestation training, even printer ink. NACHI maintains integrity by cutting no side deals and accepting no paid advertising... not so much as a banner ad. 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 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. 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 and NACHI is developing a consumer recovery fund. 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. 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. NACHI’s Membership Requirements protect consumers: Working Membership Requirements: 1. You must have passed NACHI's Online Inspector Examination (free). 2. You must have completed NACHI's Ethics Obstacle Course (free). 3. You must have taken NACHI's Standards of Practice Quiz (free). 4. You must mail or fax in NACHI's Affidavit. 5. You must adhere to the Standards of Practice. 6. You must abide by the Code of Ethics. 7. You must continue learning as per the Continuing Education Policy. 8. You must be actively working towards attaining a "Full" Membership. 9. And coming in 2005: NACHI's Occupant Hazard Recognition Primer. Full Membership Requirements: 1. You must have performed or participated in more than 100 home inspections. 2. You must have passed NACHI's Online Inspector Examination (free). 3. You must have completed NACHI's Ethics Obstacle Course (free). 4. You must have taken NACHI's Standards of Practice Quiz (free). 5. You must mail or fax in NACHI's Affidavit. 6. You must adhere to the Standards of Practice. 7. You must abide by the Code of Ethics. 8. You must continue learning as per the Continuing Education Policy. 9. You must pass NACHI's Online Inspector Examination (free) once a year. 10. You must attend at least one chapter meeting in the next two years (reasonable exceptions apply). 11. If required by your state, you must have the proper E&O insurance. 12. And coming in 2005: NACHI's Occupant Hazard Recognition Primer.
Warning to Consumers: Unlike other home inspection associations, NACHI front-ends all of its membership requirements. In other words, all of our members must fulfill our membership requirements before they can apply for membership. Other associations have little or no entrance requirements. Warning! Is your inspector blind? Click here.
NACHI offers the following to its members at no charge:All benefits are FREE to members.Benefits coming soon, currently under construction, or being improved:
Note: NACHI is much like a 100 lane bridge growing to accommodate demand. Some lanes are under construction. New lanes are always being added.
In summary, NACHI stands alone as the leader of the home inspection industry, providing support for inspectors and protection for consumers around the world and in your local market.
National Association of Certified
Home Inspectors If you are interested in membership or if you would like to attend one of our monthly meetings, you may contact our local chapter president, Harvey Gordon, by email, or by calling 954-227-7001. |