Chad Fabry

Hope it went well Richard, hopefully it wasn't the inspection where it's necessary to inflate the system to allow access for the video probe.

He assaulted her w/ his lips... if he'd used a battery he'd have to marry her.

I am going to join ASHI. It might take a year or two for me to get a respectable portfolio of inspections to present, but that's when I'm joining. Until then I trust in this group to teach me. I'm betting some of the best intellect is right here and I won't need the ASHI forum.

I get an affiliation,an acronym, a link, and an excuse to not solicit realtors. I'll probably have to go door to door selling Amway, Fuller brushes and home inspections to eek out a living while the more polished middle Europeans with Vitalis on their hair languish poolside with others that look like that too, at the Realtor/Home inspector convention. If I can't get a hundred honest inspections my first year I'll toss my ethics to the ground and send roses to all the Realtor's secretaries. This post was edited in the interest of good taste.

I'll cough up the fifty bucks to join. As I said before, I wanted to be sure I could adhere to the no realtor thing. If I must succumb to soliciting realtors, I'll just have to email Dennis and tell him I've fallen off the wagon. I'll spend the next two weeks delivering all the big screen TV's... then I'll join.

Where'd the IHINA forum go?

I saw that Costco ladder at Sam's Club, I didn't much like the hinges although it looked to be a good value. I bought two Gorilla brand ladders from Home Depot, I think the the 12 footer was 99.00 and the 21 footer was 159.00. These are pretty nice ladders; the hinges are billet aluminum, nice locking and sliding mechanisms and they came with an extra set of hinge plates so you can make two ladders out of each one and use them for scaffolding. They're very sturdy and I have no qualms about climbing them to the top rungs. Both are rated for 300Lbs. and after having climbed other ladders rated for that weight I think these are under rated. Their only flaw is that they're heavy.

I had the pleasure of exchanging a few Emails w/ Mike Brown. He's the consumate professional and I'll feel very good when I write him the check for the Inspectexpress software that Devwave developed. It's not too often that I get a personal reply from anyone. It's even more infrequent when the owner takes the time to write back. I like that.