| Whitt's End Home Inspections |
Thank You!
Due to other responsibilities, but primarily because of imminent
legislation, effective immediately, we will no longer be providing home
inspections.
As you know, we have provided quality home inspections within the
state of Florida for many years. We are grateful to the realtors and
consumers who gave us the opportunity to provide that service and
help us to grow a very successful business.
As you may also know, we are lovers of freedom and liberty, and, until
now, have taken pride in participating in a free market business in
which consumers hired us by choice, not under the false pretenses of
state licensing, and were the final arbiter of whether our services were
valuable and worth referring to others. After July 1 2010, state-level
bureaucrats will make this determination for you, based on the
payment of fees, completion of state approved “education”, and the
passing of an examination that, most likely, a home schooled second
grader could ace.
The free market provides you with the highest quality, lowest priced
home inspection. With what the bureaucrats are putting in place, you
will be provided with higher priced, lower quality home inspections.
At minimum, experienced home inspectors are required to:
• Pay application and licensing fees of $325.
• Pass an examination; cost $225.
• Complete 14 hours of education now, and 14 hours continuing
education every 2 years (content and costs to be determined).
• Submit 120 inspection reports.
• Pay fee of $100/year to do business.
• Pay $200 fee to change status.
As you can see, it’s all about the money for the bureaucrats (and
protection of the political brotherhood, as government building
inspectors are exempt from the new requirements – imagine that).
These are hoops through which we are not willing to jump. We will not
pay fees to bureaucrats, submit to “education” by bureaucrats, or join
a certification industry which waters down our own code of ethics and
standards of procedure, to continue doing what we’ve been doing for
years: providing thorough home inspections at a reasonable price with
excellent customer service. Nor do we need to have our good moral
character defined by a bureaucrat (yes, they actually do this in the
legislation). The “free market” does an infinitely better job than a
bureaucrat or group of bureaucrats could ever do, or have ever done.
Again, thank you for your past patronage. We wish you well in your
future endeavors.
Kevin & Marsha Whitt
WhittsEndInspections@yahoo.com
PS: No, they did not include a “no hoops to jump through”
grandfathering clause.
updated June 2, 2010
legislation, effective immediately, we will no longer be providing home
inspections.
As you know, we have provided quality home inspections within the
state of Florida for many years. We are grateful to the realtors and
consumers who gave us the opportunity to provide that service and
help us to grow a very successful business.
As you may also know, we are lovers of freedom and liberty, and, until
now, have taken pride in participating in a free market business in
which consumers hired us by choice, not under the false pretenses of
state licensing, and were the final arbiter of whether our services were
valuable and worth referring to others. After July 1 2010, state-level
bureaucrats will make this determination for you, based on the
payment of fees, completion of state approved “education”, and the
passing of an examination that, most likely, a home schooled second
grader could ace.
The free market provides you with the highest quality, lowest priced
home inspection. With what the bureaucrats are putting in place, you
will be provided with higher priced, lower quality home inspections.
At minimum, experienced home inspectors are required to:
• Pay application and licensing fees of $325.
• Pass an examination; cost $225.
• Complete 14 hours of education now, and 14 hours continuing
education every 2 years (content and costs to be determined).
• Submit 120 inspection reports.
• Pay fee of $100/year to do business.
• Pay $200 fee to change status.
As you can see, it’s all about the money for the bureaucrats (and
protection of the political brotherhood, as government building
inspectors are exempt from the new requirements – imagine that).
These are hoops through which we are not willing to jump. We will not
pay fees to bureaucrats, submit to “education” by bureaucrats, or join
a certification industry which waters down our own code of ethics and
standards of procedure, to continue doing what we’ve been doing for
years: providing thorough home inspections at a reasonable price with
excellent customer service. Nor do we need to have our good moral
character defined by a bureaucrat (yes, they actually do this in the
legislation). The “free market” does an infinitely better job than a
bureaucrat or group of bureaucrats could ever do, or have ever done.
Again, thank you for your past patronage. We wish you well in your
future endeavors.
Kevin & Marsha Whitt
WhittsEndInspections@yahoo.com
PS: No, they did not include a “no hoops to jump through”
grandfathering clause.
updated June 2, 2010