“If you are dealing with a Professional Home Inspector, the only ALLIANCE is to their professional home inspection association and their only Loyalty is to YOU the client.”

I belong to and am a member in good standing of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors the world’s largest home inspection association; Licensing of home inspectors only sets a minimum standard.  Much like being up to code, any less would be illegal.  Imaginary people, children, psychics (who claim to "sense" if a house is OK) and even pets can be home inspectors.  Other home inspection associations have no entrance requirements and worse, encourage their candidates to go out and perform actual inspections for poor, unsuspecting consumers as the only way to achieve full membership.  NACHI finds this practice unconscionable. That is why NACHI front-ends its membership requirements.  We turn down more than 1/2 the inspectors who want to join because they can't pass our exam or fulfill our membership requirements.