This comprehensive training program includes how-to inspect a home in accordance to the Standards of Practice of recognized professional organizations. Home inspections are an integral part the real estate transaction. This enhanced eleven-day, 90-hour training program has set the industry standard for more than a decade. Many state educational requirements are modeled after this proven educational curriculum. The course includes extensive pre-course homework, classroom presentations, hands-on training and field inspection work.

Learning Methodology:
Classroom theory becomes practical reality through the hands-on inspection of working furnaces, air conditioners, electrical panels and roof displays in the classroom. Instructors use their extensive libraries of digital photos to bring the "real world" to the classroom. Students also receive valuable field training while accompanying an experienced inspector on a residential home inspection. Finally, business development and marketing strategies are addressed to help the student launch a successful inspection business.

Day 1 - The home inspection business and scope: Students learn home inspection history & scope of a residential home inspection, including inclusions, limitations, and exclusions.

Day 2 - Structures - Students learn foundation types and materials and framing types and materials to identify signs and symptoms of normal wear, signs of structural issues, identification of defects, performance deficiencies and appropriate inspection techniques.

Day 3 - Exterior - Students learn to identify types of exterior finish materials, signs and symptoms of normal wear, defects, performance deficiencies and appropriate inspection techniques.

Day 4 - Roofing - Students learn about roofing types and materials, signs and symptoms of normal wear, signs of leakage issues, identification of defects, performance deficiencies and appropriate inspection techniques.

Day 5 - Plumbing - Students learn about plumbing systems, water, and waste system types and materials, signs and symptoms of normal wear, cross-connection issues, signs of potential issues, identification of defects, performance deficiencies and appropriate inspection techniques.

Day 6 - Field Inspection - Students learn to identify defects, performance deficiencies, safety issues and appropriate inspection techniques. Observation of typical methods and procedures used during a typical home inspection will be introduced.

Day 7 & 8 - Electrical - Students learn about electrical systems & panel board system types, devices and materials, signs and symptoms of normal wear, signs of potential issues, identification of defects, performance deficiencies and appropriate inspection techniques.

Day 9 - Heating - Part 1 - Students learn about heating systems and solid fuel heating system types, devices and materials, signs and symptoms of normal wear, signs of overheating issues, signs of potential issues, identification of defects, performance deficiencies and appropriate inspection techniques.

Day 10 - Central Air Conditioning & Heat Pumps - Students learn about cooling, the refrigeration cycle, and heat pump system types including devices and materials, signs and symptoms of normal wear, signs of potential issues, identification of defects, performance deficiencies and appropriate inspection techniques. Also discussed during this module are insulation vapor retarders and ventilation

Day 11 - Marketing & Sales - Students learn marketing methods and persistence, how to be different to succeed, creating a niche, pitfalls to avoid for beginners, street Fighter Marketing.