The Best Home Inspector School should be found for a NJ home inspector to get a good education

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.

Education New Jersey Home Inspector Training

A3983 (enacted into law 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 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.

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( TRAINEE)                                                                         Date

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Michael Del Greco                                                                Date 
New Jersey Home Inspector Lic. # GI0121                 

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This file was last updated on Thursday, 20-Mar-2008 22:47:40 EDT * Copyright © 2008 All rights reserved by: Accurate Inspections, Inc. A New Jersey home inspection firm providing New Jersey Certified Home Inspections in NJ, by New Jersey Licensed home inspectors. Inspector of record Michael Del Greco, New Jersey Home Inspector License GI 0121.