How
to become a home inspector NJ.
How to become a
New
Jersey Licensed home inspector in NJ.
When looking for a home inspection school please remember your home inspection education can only be as good as its home inspection instructors. If I wanted to become a home inspector I would look a home inspection education from a home inspection school providing instructors who have a minimum of five years on the job experience as a home inspector, who owns or has owned his or her own company and who have performed at least a thousand home inspections.
Can you realistically expect a first class home inspection education if your home inspection school's instructor has no first hand knowledge of how to perform a home inspection? New Jersey home inspection schools can be found at: NJ home inspection schools
If a school says they can teach a new home inspector to CONSISTENTLY KEEP $500 or more a day five days a week, fifty weeks per year ask them for the names of a few former students making 1/2 that or better yet ask for a a written money back guarantee!
Home inspectors typically are paid a percentage of the home inspection fee. I have heard of home inspectors being paid anywhere from $60 to $175 per home inspection. Think about it for a second, can your boss pay you 100% of what he or she takes in? Who pays for the insurance, vehicle expenses, marketing expenses, postage, people who answer the phones, vacation time, etc. Each home inspection takes a good 5 hours of time when all the off site time is added up, if you doubt this click on Where does my time go and Where does my money go or try these free Excel versions you can plug your own numbers into moneygo.xls timego.xls.
Consider about 8,000,000 people live in New Jersey. If three people live in each home and if 5% of the homes are sold each year that would be about 133,333 sales per year. Lets guess and say about 120,000 home inspections occur. Right now there more than 678 licensed home inspectors plus some unlicensed ones. 120,000 / 678 = 176 home inspections per licensed home inspector. If an inspector charges $500 per inspection (many inspectors charge much less some charge more) and performs 176 home inspections that inspector would take in $ 88,500 per year, minus expenses that eat up at something like half the gross. Make sure your budget includes $16,000 +/- for keeping your state mandated $500,000 errors and omission claims made insurance coverage for at least four years after you stop inspecting homes.
Sure, you can make money as a home inspector. I do very well. However it takes years of time, investment and effort. It is not an easy way to make a million and there is no possible way it can not be learned in a few weeks or months time.
All information on this site is the personal opinion of Michael Del Greco. He does NOT represent the Home Inspection Advisory Committee, The Division of Consumer Affairs , Office of the Attorney General or any other State Agency.
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New
Jersey Home
Inspector Licensing Requirement List
A3983 (enacted 8-15-05 effective 2-19-06)
amended Section 8 of
P.L.1997, c.323 (C.45:8-68) to read as follows:
To be eligible for licensure as a home
inspector, an applicant shall fulfill the
following requirements:
a. Be of good moral character; and
b. Have successfully completed high school or
its equivalent; and
c. (1) Have successfully completed an
approved course of study of 180 hours, as
prescribed by the board, after consultation with
the State Department of Education, which shall
include not less than 40 hours of unpaid
field-based inspections in the presence of and
under the direct supervision of a licensed home
inspector, which inspections shall be provided
by the school providing the approved course of
study or
(2) Have performed not less than 250
fee-paid home inspections in the presence of and
under the direct supervision of a licensed home
inspector who oversees and takes full
responsibility for the inspection and any report
produced; and
d. Have passed an examination administered or
approved by the committee. The examination may
have been passed before the effective date of
this act.
6. Maintain an errors
and omissions insurance
policy in the minimum
amount of 500,000
per occurrence.
6. Fill out a home inspector application
and pay the application
fee as set forth in
N.J.A.C. 13:40-15.23($500.00)
Home
inspectors in New Jersey are regulated
by the:
Office
Of The Attorney General
Department Of Law and
Public Safety
Division Of Consumer
Affairs Home Inspection
Advisory Committee
124 Halsey Street, 3 rd
floor; P.O. Box 4503,
Newark NJ 07101
Phone (973) 504-6233
FAX: (973) 273-8020
* Please be
advised that, effective mid 2005, the requirements
to become licensed as a
home inspector under the
grandfather provision have
been changed. In addition to
amending the method by
which persons can become
“grandfathered” as a
licensed home inspector,
this bill extends the
deadline by which a person
may become licensed as a
home inspector.
In order to become
licensed as a home
inspector under the
grandfather provision, an
individual must:
11. During the first 180 days
after the enactment date of this amendatory and
supplementary act, the committee shall, upon
application, issue a home inspector license to
any person who at any time prior to or during
that 180-day period held a license as an
associate home inspector, provided that the
applicant: (1) had been engaged in the practice
of home inspections for compensation for not
less than three years prior to December 30, 2005
and had performed not less than 300 home
inspections for compensation prior to December
30, 2005; or (1) had performed not less
than 400 home inspections for compensation prior
to December 30, 2005.
1b. During the first 180 days after the
enactment date of this amendatory and
supplementary act, the committee shall, upon
application, issue a home inspector license to
any individual: (1) whose application for an
associate home inspector license had been
approved by the committee prior to December 30,
2005; or (2) who had satisfied the requirements
set forth in section 9 of P.L.1997, c.323
(C.45:8-69) and had completed not less than 40
hours of unpaid field-based inspections in the
presence of and under the direct supervision of
a licensed home inspector prior to December 30,
2005.
If you believe that you
meet the new licensing
requirements for a home
inspector’s license
pursuant to the grandfather
provision referenced above,
you may obtain a licensure
application by downloading
it from the Board’s
Website at www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/nonmed.htm#eng8
or by calling the Committee
office at 973-504-6233.
Finally, while you are
not currently required to
be licensed as a home
inspector to perform home
inspections, licensure will
be required effective
December 30, 2005.
HOME
INSPECTOR MENTORING AGREEMENT
Michael Del Greco, 56 Woodland
Drive, West Paterson, NJ 07424 Voice (973)
812-5100 FAX (973-812-6342.
("the INSPECTOR")
agrees to provide field training and supervision
as part of a mentoring program pursuant to
N.J.A.C. 13:40-15.5 with ____________________
"the TRAINEE").
1. The INSPECTOR will provide
the TRAINEE with field experience under the
direct on-site supervision of a Licensed Home
Inspector to meet the requirements of N.J.A.C.
13:40-15.5 (a) 4.
2. The INSPECTOR will invite
the TRAINEE to accompany him on home
inspections. The TRAINEE may attend the
inspections. It is the TRAINEE’s
responsibility to contact the office for all
scheduling information. The fee for the
mentoring program is $ 30.00 per inspection.
Payment is due prior to the start of each home
inspection.
3. During each mentoring
inspection TRAINEE will be permitted to observe
the home inspection process. During the
inspection, the TRAINEE may observe the
condition of the various systems and components.
The TRAINEE will have the opportunity to prepare
home inspection training reports as defined in
N.J.A.C. 13:40-15.2.
4. The TRAINEE understands no
questions or comments are allowed in the
presence of the COMPANY's client(s).
5. The training report, any
other written or verbal information, material or
observations prepared by the TRAINEE as part of
this or any other field training experience are
for training purposes only. The TRAINEE is
responsible for the maintenance of the reports
and to maintain that confidentiality. The
training reports are confidential. The training
reports are to be kept on file by the TRAINEE
and provided only to the Home Inspection
Advisory Committee. The TRAINEE understands the
report may not under any circumstances be
provided to any other party.
6. The INSPECTOR will discuss
the reports and the inspection process with the
TRAINEE to assist in the education of the
TRAINEE during the term of this contract.
7. The INSPECTOR will provide
NO insurance which would provide coverage to the
TRAINEE, his/her heirs or dependents, for any
injury which may occur to the trainees person or
property either at the inspection site or during
travel to or from the inspection site. The
TRAINEE agrees to hold the INSPECTOR harmless
for any injury to the TRAINEE'S person or
property.
8. The TRAINEE will be
personally responsible for any damages the
TRAINEE causes at the inspection site.
9. The INSPECTOR makes no
guarantee, expressed or implied, of any future
employment or other relationship with the
TRAINEE as a result of this agreement. This
agreement contains the entire understanding
between the parties, no verbal changes to this
contract are allowed.
I have read and understand the
above. I have been provided the opportunity to
have this agreement reviewed by an attorney.
This agreement renews automatically unless
canceled by either party with notice to the
other delivered by Certified Mail.
_____________________________________________
__________
( TRAINEE)
Date
_____________________________________________
___________
Michael Del Greco
Date
New Jersey Home Inspector Lic. # GI0121
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