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6 Steps to Start a Home Inspection Business
What does it take to start a home inspection business? Lots of learning, research, dedication, and a plan to set you up for success. This will prepare you for the mountain of decisions that come with getting a new home inspection business up and running. As a result, you will be able to create solid risk management practices that carry you throughout the course of your career.
By: Alyssa Cink Member Exclusive
More Exciting News
I want to talk to you about InspectPAC and report about InspectionWorld on the Road—ASHI’s effort to bring InspectionWorld closer to home. I would also like to report that the first of four InspectionWorld on the Road events was successful.
By: Mark Goodman Member Exclusive
Leading by Example
Kathleen Austin Kuhn has a long family history in home inspections. Her father, Ken Austin, is a Charter Member of ASHI, and in the mid-’80s she opened her own home inspection business shortly after college. Her husband joined the business several years later and continues to do inspections, while her youngest son is also a home inspector.
By: Laura Rote Member Exclusive
Handling Complaints
A few months later I received a complaint email. The email was short and direct. I suspect I get one such complaint every year (I have been doing this for almost nine years now), and only once has someone threatened to take me to court (after she talked to her lawyer and reread my pre-inspection agreement she dropped that line of thinking).
By: Ray Mayo Member Exclusive
Building Strong Foundations
This issue we wanted to follow up about the ASHI Foundation, or AFI, and how you, too, can help.
By: Lisa Alajajian Giroux Member Exclusive
ASHI Reporter this month
Alternative Sources of Inspection Income in Slow Times
O One must have faith to be a home inspector. We’re never really sure we have a job until we get to the site, the house is ready, the clients arrive, and the real estate agent gets us in. During this slowdown many of us have had to make drastic changes.
