Home Inspector Podcast by InterNACHI

This is a recording of The Texas Inspectors Convention 2020 general session.

Learn how to perform a home inspection, write an inspection report, and take advantage of free business resources and marketing strategies in this free, online home inspection training class #35 with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko, Certified Professional Inspector CPI®. Visit https://www.nachi.org/webinars to view and sign up for all of our home inspection webinars.

InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko, InterNACHI® members, and certified home inspectors talk about issues related to home inspections, such as starting a business, growing your business, training, certification, business resources, marketing strategies, hiring inspectors, real estate agents, websites, software, making more money, etc.

Talk with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko and other home inspectors about anything related to home inspections, including training, certification, business, and marketing, etc. The sessions are live, face-to-face, and interactive.

When it comes to marketing on Facebook, there are times when mass- messaging makes sense. There are other times when your social marketing campaign requires for a more surgical approach. But how do you do it? Social5 will teach you some techniques for effectively selecting and boosting your Facebook content.

Agents are a home inspection companies largest source of referrals. Creating systems you can use to build relationships with buyer's agents, listing agents, and past clients can help you get more referrals. This training will give you practical ways you can use to follow up with your agents to build lasting relationships and a continuous source of referrals.

Join Brigitte Malik to learn how to properly inspect the interior of homes, bathrooms and kitchens.

Join Jason Smeal, Jared Utterback, David Hartman, and Anthony Perera of "Inspected" to learn about their software.Inspected.com is a dedicated platform built specifically for inspectors, contractors, and private inspection service providers which automatically geotags a physical address to the inspection location while including high-quality video and images, and scheduling of time slots for the inspector and contractor. It can all be integrated into your current permitting software. Cloud-based software with an unmatched platform for scheduling, high-quality video, images, notes, and automatic geotagging built specifically for Inspections.

This presentation will focus on infrared body temperature screening and how owners of infrared imagers may find a new use for their equipment in fighting the spread of COVID-19.

Q&A session with Amy Grimaldi & John Grimaldi of Orange Blossom Home Inspection LLC, and Steve Stuart of Coaching & Consulting Solutions for tips on how to become a home inspector.

This webinar is an introduction to performing insurance inspections in Florida, including wind mitigation and four point inspections.

Join us for a review and discussion on the tools of our trade. From basic to specialty, we go over what three very experienced and very different home inspectors use.

Talk with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko and other home inspectors about anything related to home inspections, such as starting a business, growing your business, training, certification, business resources, marketing strategies, hiring inspectors, real estate agents, websites, software, making more money, etc. The sessions are live, face-to-face, and interactive using Zoom.

Join Lee Eckroth in this webinar to dive into the challenges and opportunities faced by buyers, sellers and real estate agents after receipt of the home inspection – the period known as the 2nd half of the home inspection.

Join Tarun Gogia of Digital Rafter to learn the following:1. How the COVID-19 pandemic change the way business is done?2. How will I know where am I stuck and what should be the next step?3. What activities are needed to build a brand and get a regular flow of leads?4. How will I get to know if I am getting sufficient returns on the investments when I am paying a digital marketing company?5. What Digital Rafter can do for your business?6. A freebie for all InterNACHI Certified Home Inspectors.

Four master instructors will be teaching live, real-time from HVAC systems located in four different houses. Free, online, and open to everyone. Interact and participate in HVAC inspections with InterNACHI® CPIs® Daniel Cullen, Charles Bellefontaine, Mark Stangl, and Rob Claus. What you'll learn here will make you a better inspector out there. Join us.

Learn about report writing. In this session, Alan will talk about mistakes most inspectors make and will share his philosophy on what really matters. Whether you are a seasoned veteran or a relative newcomer, you will probably be challenged about the way you do things.

Looking for ways to grow your business in 2020? Today, one third of consumers are turning to social media before making a buying decision. That means they are checking out companies on Social Media before picking up the phone. Social5 will discuss a professional social marketing solution, tailored to the inspection industry, with significantly discounted rates available only to InterNACHI members. Through this exclusive partnership, Social5 is offering a full-service social marketing program that includes professional industry related Facebook posts, blog articles, monthly email marketing and a powerful Business Hub to help collect leads on the go and cultivate referrals.

Talk with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko and other home inspectors about anything related to home inspections, including training, certification, business, and marketing, etc. The sessions are live, face-to-face, and interactive.

AmPro Inspections, INC. started over three years ago in an intermediate market for volume and reached 240 inspections per month at their peak by year three! Over 150% growth! Many things attributed to this success but none more than the art of cold calling. During this webinar, Brodie Lotz will discuss the data that supports this, strategies for how to select and obtain call lists, scripting, handling objections and more.

This workshop is geared towards people who are new to the inspection industry, or who have been in the business for a few years or so. In this workshop, Shane will go over how he's been able to keep his home inspection full, no matter the economy, WITHOUT having to deal with Realtors. The three takeaways from this workshop are:1: You'll discover the kind of business you're REALLY in2: How to cut the fat from your marketing budget3. How to get and keep your home inspection full without EVER having to go to a networking meeting or sales meeting with Realtors.

This training will highlight some of the biological hazards facing home inspectors that inspect homes with wildlife damage. The training will discuss awareness and safety to prevent contracting a zoonotic disease (wildlife-borne). Inspectors will also learn classic signs left by animals and how animal damage can pose significant challenges for home owners.

This presentation will provide infrared and visual images of different applications specific to the home inspection industry. How the home inspector can best use Infrared Thermal Imaging technology to enhance their services (and fee schedule).

CPI® Britt Treece will be presenting this free live InterNACHI® webinar on the topic of foundation cracks. Which cracks do you see, which do you say, and which make you sound the alarm? Look into the splits, spikes, shakes, and shards of the grayest areas of a home inspection - and how to explain them.

This presentation will feature photos and design information regarding truss strapping inspections, truss modifications, concrete walls or slab cracking, and settlement defects in residential structures. Discussion will center on hurricane wind forces at the roof as well as settlement of the structure due to various reasons. Additional training will be presented regarding how to spot modified trusses or strapping, evaluate cracks in structures, and other items to ensure hurricane resilience.

CPI® Lon Henderson will review structural movement in a garage that was compounded by impact damage to the corner of the garage. Understanding structural movement will help inspectors in "developing the big picture" and writing a good report.

CPI® Britt Treece will be presenting this free live InterNACHI® webinar on the topic moisture intrusion. Many inspectors work in areas where steep, noticeable grades are common. In suburban areas, tight row houses with limited setbacks are becoming more and more common. Learn about the issue these grades present and how to explain them to clients.

Learn about sewer scope inspections. Get a virtual glimpse of Jim Krumm's sewer scope trailer with cameras, different types of tools and pipes. Jim Krumm operates a home inspection company in Colorado.

Tammy Lynn Guns will present during this free live InterNACHI webinar on the topic of how being afraid of change can hurt your business. Tammy is currently a consultant in the healthcare industry working with healthcare systems on best practices for emergency medicine as well as inpatient services. We know that change is happening very quickly in the healthcare sector, but we also know that change is happening in all sectors of our economy. Companies are either changing and growing or they are shrinking and dying. Companies that do not keep their finger on the pulse of what is going on in their marketplace can very quickly be disrupted to the point of losing enough market share to either go bankrupt or get gobbled up by their competitors. It doesn’t take long for us to come up with the names of companies that at one time dominated their industry, only to be gone or swallowed up today. There are several key critical understandings that executives and other leaders in organizations have that know how to effectively move through change. This presentation addresses these fundamental understandings and will leave you renewed, inspired and energized to face change head on!

John Gillam will give a webinar on the value of home inspectors marketing their services to reduce liability for states that have licensure. He will also discuss how to coordinate with brokers / escrow officers in presenting the potential need for these services.

In this free, live InterNACHI webinar, InterNACHI Certified Professional Inspector CPI® Tyler Shull will present on the rural & mountain home inspection process.

In this free, live interactive InterNACHI webinar, we'll prepare for the ICC Code Exam for Residential Building Inspector (B1) by going over ICC's 2018 IRC Code Flashcards. A Residential Building Inspector is responsible for performing inspections of structures to determine compliance with the various Building Codes and Standards adopted by the local jurisdiction. At this level of certification, the Inspector shall be able to inspect one-and-two family dwellings. You'll also learn how to take the ICC proctored exam online.

In this free live, online webinar we'll learn about some common electrical defects observed during a home inspection. InterNACHI's Paul Roebuck from TPREIA (Texas Professional Real Estate Inspection Association) will be teaching. InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko will be hosting.

Quickly implementing an effective online marketing strategy using video is crucial for the inspection companies that plan to survive this crisis. Brad Williams from The Closing Guys Media will break down his three-part strategy of important elements that home inspectors should include in their marketing plan.

Learn how to: define what customer service involves; establish client relationships; communicate on the phone effectively; represent the program, company or organization; make a good first impression; identify and target clients; define the value of effective communication, including written, oral and non-verbal communication; build good client relationships; serve people with disabilities; develop methods to handle complaints; and list several ways to maintain professionalism.

Communication & Marketing in a Post-COVID World with inspection software Spectora's Kevin Wagstaff.

Listen to the COVID-19 live InterNACHI webinar with Ben Gromicko. The course is free, online and open to everyone. on www.nachi.org/education.

Learn how to perform a home inspection in detail according to the InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice by watching this video recording of a www.NACHI.TV webinar with InterNACHI Certified Professional Inspector Ben Gromicko.

Learn the basics of using a blower door on a house inspection and some building science concepts for home inspectors.

Learn about accepting credit cards as a home inspector in this short presentation on www.NACHI.TV with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko.

InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko teaches from the free, online COVID-19 Safety Guidelines for Home Inspectors Course on http://www.nachi.org/education.

Learn how to inspect a home according to the Home Inspection Standards of Practice in a detailed step-by-step procedure.

Learn why every home inspector should consider adding 203k Consulting" with Catherine Hall of the National Association of FHA Consultants.

Learn how to perform a home inspection according to a Standards of Practice in this free online, live webinar with InterNACHI's Ben Gromicko, a Certified Professional Inspector®. We will review hundreds of images from a home inspection that Ben performed. We will also talk about infrared inspections, tools, business strategies, time management, scheduling, software, report writing, real estate agents, calculating fees, ancillary inspections, and much more.

We talk to Greg Bryan from Inspector Empire Builder (IEB) and learn about IEB's coaching system for home inspectors.

InterNACHI® is excited to announce the expansion of our nationally accredited curriculum in the next several months by developing a new series of free online video courses that incorporate copyrighted content published by the International Code Council, and other authorities of residential building codes and best practices. These include copyright-protected materials from the Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors (EBPHI) and copyright-protected materials from other national home inspector organizations.

Learn in this NACHI.TV webinar recording how to deliver a captivating inspection experience that will impress your clients and win you new business from agents. We'll be talking with John Kwasnik from Carson Dunlop.

Lee Hamilton from RoadScan Canada talks about body cameras for home inspectors.

Learn how to use infrared cameras and moisture meters with Peter Hopkins of United Infrared.