As an InterNACHI South Africa member you’ll receive:
Learn the home inspection business no matter where you live! All you need is an internet connection and you’ll have access to all our courses, videos, quizzes, tests and reference material. Take more advanced courses as you improve your skills. Use this material as a reference any time you need it. A huge amount of education is available through InterNACHI USA, much of it also applicable to South African inspectors.
The following courses are South Africa specific:
- Introduction to Home Inspection course (free to all)
- South African Standards of Practice for the Inspection of Residential Property (free to all)
- Soils, Substructure and Superstructure course (free to members)
- Roof Inspection (Free to members)
InterNACHI South Africa Entrance Exam
The InterNACHI South Africa entrance exam is based on South African building practices and regulations and is written specifically for those wanting to perform home inspections in South Africa.
The following courses (free to members) are designed for North American inspectors but are significantly applicable to South African inspectors:
The InterNACHI South Africa Code of Ethics provide professional guidelines to which our members must adhere. Does your competition list adherence to a Code of Ethics in their marketing materials?
Learn how you can form your own local chapter, improving your market position and developing a presence in the home inspection industry by serving as president. This page tells you all you need to know and includes a link to the local chapter by-laws.
Most home buyers looking for an inspector start by looking online. Learn how to create a low-cost, high-tech, easy-to-edit website designed specifically for home inspectors. Find out what content works best, where to get it, and how to organize it.
Developing effective marketing skills are at least as crucial as developing good inspection skills. Follow this marketing link to learn where to best invest your time, energy and money.
Browse through a variety of links to the websites of major inspection report software producers where you can view and test-drive systems for free. Also included are inspection-related forms and software, like InterNACHI’s editable online inspection agreement and our report uploading system (Fetchreport).
These pages explain the process and considerations related to booking a home inspection and provide a template from which to develop an inspection contract.
Anyone is free to form a local chapter. Follow the link to find out how to proceed.
This is a link to the extremely active InterNACHI US message boards. With over 40 forums and a large core group of active posters, these boards are an important educational tool. Although home construction and terms may vary slightly, materials, soil, moisture and air are the same in the US as they are in South Africa. Please join your brother/sister inspectors in the US in discussing how home systems and components age and fail.
From downloadable PDFs to IR Cameras, visit Inspector Outlet for your equipment needs.
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