Mike Holmes has added yet another twist to his vision of what a model home inspection firm should look like; he's now offering air miles to reward new home inspection clients for hiring his firm, Mike Holmes Inspections, and he's also rewarding clients with additional miles for each successful customer referral.
One wouldn't expect that with all of Holmes' star power that the inspectors performing inspections under the umbrella of Mike Holmes Inspections would need to resort to marketing gimmicks in order to lure in new business; but, according to a press release today from CNW (Canada Newswire...
Washington State DOL has just announced the tentative dates for all board meetings for the year 2012.
Full board meetings will be held on March 15th, June 14th, September 13th and December 6th 2012.
Locations for the meeting are based on availability and the meetings are not always held at the same place. Those wishing to attend the meetings should check to see if the location and agenda have been published on the DOL website well in advance of the meeting. Individual sub-committee meetings and locations are not locked in at the beginning of the yea...
The American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) announced Marvin Goldstein as its new president at InspectionWorld, ASHI's annual conference, held this year in Phoenix, January 4-7.
Goldstein, CEO of Building Inspection Service, Inc., is a Charter member of ASHI and was instrumental in its inception. Prior to assuming his role as president, he served in a variety of leadership roles, including member of the Board, chair of the legislative committee, director, secretary, treasurer and president-elect.
Up until the first of the year, buyers in the D.C. area and in Virginia had a reasonable expectation that, even without an inspection, the heating, cooling, washer/dryer and anything mechanical or electrical was working properly at the time of move-in. No longer due to a recent change to real estate contracts for all homes sales in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Under the new contract, houses are sold as-is and sellers have no obligation to fix anything - now it's all negotiable.
The Texas Court of Appeals has overruled a lower court in favor of an inspector. This may close the door (at least in Texas) on clients filing claims against inspectors using the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
If you don't have your sump pump GFCI protected, ITT has a designed a pump that will punish you. 
