Home Inspector Podcast by InterNACHI

Learn what is required while performing an inspection of a roof during a home inspection.

Learn what a material defect is according to the Home Inspection Standards of Practice.

Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about your inspection company logo being uploaded into your InterNACHI® dashboard so that your profile on search engines looks professional.

Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about updating your profile with your inspection business website address to get more inspection job leads for free.

Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about your getting free inspection job leads by adding listings to your profile.

Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about using your certification logos and webseals on your home inspection business website.

Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about using promotional videos on your website.

Here's an InterNACHI® membership dashboard tip about your CPI logo.

Home maintenance involves the risk of bodily injury and damage to personal property. Don’t perform home repairs by yourself. Stay safe.

Learn business and marketing tips as a Florida-licensed and certified home inspector in this video recording of a recent live class with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko at the House of Horrors® in Florida.

Home maintenance is a primary responsibility for every homeowner. Staying on top of a seasonal home maintenance schedule is very important, and the neighborhood InterNACHI® Certified Home Inspector can help.

Throughout InterNACHI's free, online Introduction to Home Inspections Course, there are references to the InterNACHI® Home Inspection Standards of Practice.

The estate agent has a fiduciary duty to their client and, therefore, must recommend the very best inspectors. If the agent recommends a patty-cake inspector, an inspector who indirectly pays for the agent's recommendation or a cheap inspector, they violate their fiduciary duty to their client.

Every homeowner has similar concerns and questions related to maintaining their home. The following questions are those that all homeowners ask themselves.

The home inspector can inspect a home and report upon the home’s condition as it was at the time of the inspection. That is the main responsibility of the home inspector. A home inspection does not include predictions of future events, house warranties, or guarantees that nothing will ever go wrong.

Just like the engine of an automobile, a house works as a system of interdependent parts. Every part has an impact on the operation of many others. A typical home has over 10,000 systems and components. Visit https://www.nachi.org/introduction-home-inspection-course.htm

How do inspection photos help or hurt home inspectors? Watch guest presenter Derik Pomaville, InterNACHI CPI, and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko in this video recording of a recent live InterNACHI® Webinar. Register for the next one at https://www.nachi.org/webinars.

Learn about simple spans of floor joists, including load, bearing, span, height and width of joists, bridge blocking, and the code.

Listen to “Home Inspection Agreements – Why They Matter and Where You Can Get One" Webinar with Ben Garrison and Joseph Denneler for more webinars, please visit www.nachi.org/webinars

Listen to this podcast about the "Benefits of Home Inspector Insurance" Webinar with Ben Garrison and Joseph Dennelerfor more webinars, please visit; www.nachi.org/webinars

Listen to this webinar with TREC IAC's Shawn Emerick, Stephen Rinehart & TPREIA-InterNACHI®'s Paul Roebuck.for more, please visit; www.nachi.org/webinars

Join InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko with his guest Certified Professional Inspector CPI® Dillon Winiecki for this commercial property inspection training class. Dillon is an Arizona-licensed home inspector and owns Protect Property Inspections, Arizona Commercial Property Inspections, and PPI Sewer Inspections based in Phoenix. He is also the founder, owner, and lead instructor of Inspection Career Training Academy, an InterNACHI® Partner School. Become a Certified Commercial Property Inspector by visiting https://ccpia.org/.

This course provides insight into the importance of proper foundation flood vents and dry floodproofing techniques for buildings located in a flood zone. Consumers are demanding more home inspectors to be knowledgeable on flood protection and flood resilient homes. The course will also analyze the role of building compliance in securing lowering flood insurance rates and what mitigation solutions are available for both residential and non residential structures.Discuss on the InterNACHI forums

Join guest presenter Andrew Sams, CPI and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for this free, online LIVE home inspection training class. Andrew Sams is the owner of Alpine Building Performance, LLC, a multi-inspector property inspection company that he founded in 2016. He holds a B.S in Building Science and Construction Management as well.

Learn how to be a successful Florida-licensed and certified home inspector with these business and marketing tips by InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko.

Join a group of home inspectors and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko as we talk about how to schedule more jobs, applying the best marketing strategies, how to convert clients with overwhelming value, and much more. We’ll also do a few impromptu website critiques. Discuss on the InterNACHI Inspection Community Forum.

Christian Adams (former real estate broker) will be sharing proven steps you can take to find and partner with top agents in your market to systemize your referral streams. Discover the free tools you can use to help grow your business while reducing marketing spend.

Join InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko with his guest Eric Grubbs for this free online home inspection training webinar. You'll learn about the four categories of gas furnaces and their heating cycles, and how the cooling cycle works for air conditioners and heat pumps. Become a certified HVAC inspector at https://www.nachi.org/certification.htm.

InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko talks about training and certification, websites, next steps, marketing, business, job lead, and much more. Discuss on the InterNACHI forum.

Alicia Gromicko from FASTSITE4U.COM describes the top key features that every great home inspector website should have, including analytics, hero pics, call to action, state your value, benefits, social proof, get certified, risk reduction, logo, action shots, online scheduling, and much more.

Saturday Morning Webinar. Join our free, live interactive InterNACHI® Webinar with Ben Gromicko as he talks about the 15 steps to success for new InterNACHI® members and newly certified inspectors. We'll talk about certification, marketing, inspecting, getting new jobs, business, websites, equipment, report software, and anything else you'd like to talk about. Feel free to bring your questions.

In this free webinar, InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko will talk about designing a website for a home inspection business that converts site visitors into scheduled clients, including (a) the resources to build your own website, (b) who to hire to build a website for you, and (c) the basic features that every great website should have.

Sporecyte is a world leader in AI-based diagnostics. We've developed an air screening tool for mold and particulate classification and counting – with pictures of over 150 mold classifications and 10 particulates. Sporecyte Air Screen for home inspectors is fast, simple, inexpensive, and easy to use. Earn extra income while providing valuable information for homeowners and home buyers.

Learn from presenters about ActivePure® Technology. It is an air cleaning technology that works continuously to clean and protect air and surfaces 24 hours a day.

This is a round table discussion with 3 real estate agents moderated by Lee Eckroth with questions submitted by home inspectors. The questions can be anything an inspector has wanted to know from the perspective of an agent. Best way to market their business? Expectations? Communications? Best information a home inspector can provide to agents?

Join guest presenter Glenn Stephens, CPI and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for this free, online LIVE home inspection training class. Glenn started G. Stephens & Associates, Inc. in 2011, using his three Florida licenses as a Certified Residential Contractor, Certified Roofing Contractor, and Home Inspector to educate homeowners about their home and how to protect it. Glenn has performed more than 3,700 Inspections.

Join guest presenter Mike Leggett, CPI and InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko for this free, online LIVE home inspection training class. Mike is the owner of The BrickKicker of Georgia, a multi-inspector home inspection company based in Athens, GA.

Discuss the path to become a RESNET HERS Rater by taking Bullseye Building Consultants HERS Rater Training and Certification. It will open up new revenue opportunities for home inspectors.

Does your protocol for inspecting roofs satisfy the TREC Standards of Practice requirements? This class will explain what is required of Texas home inspectors when they inspect roof-covering materials. Texas TREC #39757. This webinar is approved for 2 TREC CE Hours and 2 InterNACHI CE Hours. Free & Open to Everyone.

This class will present a pictorial introduction of inspecting the forms, the materials, make-ups, plumbing and tendons. Texas TREC approval #39761 (4 CE Hours) & 4 InterNACHI CE Hours available. This class is free, online, and open to everyone.

Learn how new members of InterNACHI® can start getting new inspection jobs. In this free, online live webinar, we'll be talking about business resources, marketing strategies, scheduling, communication, websites, and networking. We'll also be answering questions live, so please attend and join the discussion.

Understand airspace, night operations, flying over people and privacy issues. This webinar will go over best practices to avoid problems and keep you safe and legal. We will go over airspace as well as programs to help you understand the airspace you are in. The presenter will talk about pre-planning your flight mission, risk management and ways to respond and comply with private citizen requests or law enforcement questioning.

This class introduces attendees to inspections and installation guidelines to use during a home inspection. Learn about what is included, when to do this type of an inspection and what to look for while performing a stucco inspection.

Join us for this free, online webinar. Learn about healthy home inspections and how it can benefit your inspection business.

In this webinar we will discuss the Inspectedhouses.com system and how this unique marketing tool enables inspectors to be more valuable to agents, connect directly with buyers and sellers, have a niche in their own market, and promote the concept of Pre Listing Home Inspections. Inspectors attending this webinar will be given a FREE Trial to use the system so they will have a risk free opportunity!!

A Texas Attorney will discuss claims made against home inspectors and the benefits of having a Pre-Inspection Agreement. The class subject will include methods to help home inspectors avoid having a claim made against them and information that a pre-inspection agreement should include. This class is free, online, and open to everyone.

Watch InterNACHI’s Colorado Chapter Meeting for April at which Ben Gromicko talks about home inspections, business, marketing, and tips on growing your business. Guest speaker Russell La Plante also discusses adding radon testing to your services.

This workshop will cover topics such as distinguishing yourself as a commercial building inspector, professionalism, target marketing, where to spend your advertising budget, pricing jobs and submitting professional quotes, partnering with local tradespeople, and more.

In this session, we’ll explore different ways of continuing to acquire new clients, discuss how to maintain rapport with existing clients, and cover how to communicate with consumers about the inspection process during socially-distanced walk-throughs and conversations. We’ll also discuss how to coordinate and communicate with clients using tech tools to ensure great service, and discuss opportunities to expand your business.

You get only one chance to make a good first impression, so make sure your marketing looks polished and professional. The designers from InterNACHI’s Member Marketing Team will explain the importance of having a unique logo for your business, as well as how your branding represents you and your company. They’ll also discuss some design do’s and don’ts so that your marketing doesn’t un-sell your services.