An article written by home inspector, Reuben Saltzman in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune explains why kickout flashings are so critical. The article includes a video. Check it out here....
Governor Sam Brownback has vetoed Senate Bill 37, which would have repealed the July 1 sunset of the Kansas Home Inspectors Professional Competence and Financial Responsibility Act, which created the board and the registration system in 2008.
In a news release, Brownback said he found little evidence of unscrupulous home inspectors to warrant government involvement and fees on private industry. He said the state attorney general?s office is better equipped than the board for investigations and assistance.
To read more, [url="http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/blog/2013/04/brownback-vetoes-home-inspection-bil...
He calls it the "Property Wars" - the process of negotiating, reaching a deal, getting an inspection and then being forced to re-negotiate based on an inspector's findings; and says buyers wield inspections like a bargaining chip - a deal breaker. To learn more, click here....
An article in the online Daily Commercial News written by a Canadian contruction watchdog group, the Association des consommateurs pour la qualit? dans la construction (ACQC), reveals that group has just published a study that calls for regulation of the home inspection profession in the Canadian province of Quebec.
The study concluded that the home inspection profession in Quebeck should be regulated and calls for minimum training requirements, a standards of practice, the use of a standardized service agreement, and a compensation mode for aggrieved consumers. To read the study, http://ac...
...you guessed it, laceration hazards.
