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The inspector "violated 815 KAR 6:010 Sec. 5(2) by failing to pay his renewal fee," the Final Order says.
The result?
Cough up the license renewal fee ($400) plus $531.25, supposedly for "costs and fees" of the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors (KBHI).
That's a total renewal hit of $931.25 in cash. Not to mention everyone's time, lost business, etc.
That socko order came on the KBHI's second ever Settlement Agreement. It was approved in a Final Order of the Board at Tuesday's (11/12/13) meeting, ending Case No. 13-KBHI-00181, KBHI v
ted Shields. It was settled on the brink of a Aug. 27 hearing.
The published Order makes it sound like it is just a "nonpayment" case. There was more to it than that, but anyone trying to learn from the written Order itself would never know it. Which is the wrong way to get to the right result. Anyone reading it years from now should know exactly what the facts were. But at least the decision is in print. That, alone, is progress.
The case actually was described as a bounced check sent for license renewal, during discussion of the case at the Board's September meeting. But there was still more left out of the Order.
Still, the takeaway is brutally blunt. Bouncing a check for the home inspector license renewal fee is more dangerous than any other check you could write.
Go to Kroger and bounce a check. You end up paying the check and a bounce fee like $50. Not because Kroger, or any other merchant, is golden hearted about hassling bounced checks. Just because that is all the law allows.
That's the fly in the ointment here. The KBHI had every right to make an example of the bounced check here. Especially with all the other facts. But where does the law authorize the KBHI to charge "fees and costs"?
After all, the KBHI is
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HOW TO PAY $931 TO RENEW A LICENSE!
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A little business card blew up into a big case last Tuesday at the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors (the KBHI).
The business card, with an alarming note, was left on a neighbor's house by 16-year home inspector Kenny Martin.
Martin said he could tell a neighbor about hazards he found inspecting the house next door. The Hearing Officer said it was "an advertisement and not a warning of imminent danger" that improperly disclosed the results of a home inspection without written client approval.
It drew the first written reprimand from the KBHI at Tuesday's board meeting in Frankfort. KBHI v Kenny Martin, Case No. 13-KBHI-0121.
That came as the result of the first complaint by a homebuilder against a home inspector. The same builder built both homes. You can see his problem.
The case also is the first to spell out the difference between "imminent danger" - versus a "potential"danger - under Kentucky rules. And in writing. Inspection results usually are confidential -- unless there is an "imminent danger to life, health, or safety" (or a court order).
The board order also gives some pointers for home inspectors handling a complaint - from a client or from the board.
In fact, it was the KBHI's first 13B Hearing. This is all new ground -- with important guidance for home inspectors and homebuilders.
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BOARD REVOKES
AHIT
COURSE PROVIDER APPROVAL
First Hit for Online
AHIT, the American Home Inspectors Training Institute, took a hit from the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors ("KBHI") at its November meeting Tuesday.
The Boaard yanked AHIT's "license." It is the first time the KBHI revoked an educational provider's approva
l.
It is not clear if the Board action calls into question other home inspector licenses previously issued to AHIT graduates.
AHIT's representative told the Board there were about 11 pending or coming license applications from AHIT programs. Those surely are affected, at a minimum.
Revoking AHIT approval also is the first skirmish in what may become a running Board battle against online education. Stuck-in-limbo AHIT graduates at the meeting all did their prelicense training with AHIT online. It is one of the seemingly least expensive prelicense courses, advertising $696 tuition (though later, it turns out there's more). Not to mention complications.
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You will have to give us a pass on this.
We did not know there was a World Toilet Day.
Turns out there is. And it's Nov. 19. You learn something every day.
There's even a World Toilet Organization (WTO) - founded on Nov. 19. It's been running a World Toilet Summit every since 2001, when both the WTO and the Summit started. There's even a World Toilet College.
That brought a lot to mind. Years ago, Steve published "The Simple Virtues of Animal Manure," an article about self-sustaining home life, from his farm in Lebanon, CT. For example. Not long ago, we reported news of exploding hydraulic toilets around here. It burst into the news because of a U.S. recall. PLI always urges home inspectors not to get into the business of trying to keep up with recalls. Call exploding toilets an especially juicy example.
Most of all, it brought to mind Bill Gates, regularly America's richest guy. Bill Gates? The same Bill Gates who started microsoft and helped invent the personal computer? That Bill Gates.
"Reinvent the Toilet Challenge" was rolled out by his Gates Foundation in 2011. The goal of the Challenge is to reinvent the flush toilet.
Home inspectors know the flush toilet is one of those neatly simple devices that homes could not do without. It has so few moving parts it is nearly idiot proof.
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HEAT SUPPLY to LIVING ROOMS
An expert witness called to ask if any SOP requires a home inspector to report there was no heating supplied to a room where people live.
It was the client's first winter in the home., The inspection report said the heating and air conditioning systems were OK. The cold front came a week or two ago. The people were freezing in the living room and the dining room. That's when they noticed there were no heating supply vents in either room.
Should the home inspector have reported that? Or does his SOP give him an out?
This is not as obvious as it sounds. Inquiring minds that really want to know need the whole story.
The short answer is that "adequacy" or balance of a heating system is specifically excluded by all three SOP. NAHI 11.3.9; ASHI 8.2.B.1; NACHI; 3.4.II. That has led some home inspectors - understandably - to think reporting rooms without heat is not required.
But supply, or "distribution," are different from "adequacy" or "balance."
Having no supply at all - zero distribution to a room - is not a question of "adequacy" or "balance."
And then, if there is no supply at all, is that a "significant deficiency"?
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