ASHI Lowers Dues to Increase Declining Membership

ASHI members and candidates are pleasantly surprised to find invoices reflecting a reduction in dues. That is not all that is reducing. On 11/30/2004, ASHI reported having only 3336 members and only 170 candidates that were authorized to display their logo. Candidates who do not receive direct benefit of membership (2543, as of 11/04) continue to pay dues and help fray the costs for the others, but for how long?

ASHI Recommends Inspector Under Suspended License

This ASHI inspector remained on the computerized referral list while his license was under suspension by his state licensing board. ASHI's code of ethcis require inspectors to comply with the laws of their state. Does ASHI enforce their ethical standards for anyone? Apparently not when they continue to recommend, without sanctioning, an inspector who has been punished by his state for breaking a home inspection law.

ASHI Members Shut Down nonachi.blogspot.com

The blog that was started in February '05 with the stated goal of affecting NACHI's membership stopped operating today. Details are sketchy. More will be printed as reliable information is gathered.

ASHI National Officer Declares All Candidates as "Members"

In a recent communication to the members of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors, Scott Patterson, the Director of Membership for the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) published that ASHI candidates (2119 of them) are reflected in his reported number of a total of "5,957 ASHI members".

ASHI Professionalism

As the Licensing Board for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts continues to review a complaint of his unprofessional behavior toward home inspectors who do not belong to his association, ASHI member Jim Morrison continues to spew anger and venom to those who do not agree with his militant stand against non-members of his association.

Here is an excerpt from one recent outburst on a blog he assists other ASHI members in publishing:

"Bugfart,

...The boots I'm wearing have been on more inspections than you have, and I'm still breaking them in. (It is not insignificant that those same boots also scored higher on the NACHI exam than you did.)

You post often, and authoritatively, but the fact is: You have all the credibility of a man who failed at several businesses before giving the field of home inspections a go less than one year ago.

... You are a boorish buffoon and your stuff just doesn't off your home court. Shoot, it doesn't even play there!I had done more inspections by my 18th birthday, than you have in your entire career. I'm sure I had more hours of HI continuing ed by the time I was 21 than you have accumulated in your entire life. Let the readers judge our respective credibilities.

Jim Morrison
Princeton, MA
7/28/2005 9:40 AM "


As home inspectors are continuing to pay money to real estate agents in Nebraska while ASHI continues to "investigate" the news report of its scandal after these many months, and as ASHI members continue to lose court battles defending a make-shift regulatory agency in Pennsylvania designed to thin out their competition from non-ASHI members, Mr. Morrison's ravings represent the anger and frustration of what was once the only game in town, but is now a dying fad.

If Mr. Morrison is the best that ASHI has to offer, as the credentials he boasts in his father's web site seem to suggest, then the ASHI experience cannot be a good one or one that can last.

ASHI/PHIC Leader Takes over Blog

As the State of Massachusetts Professional License Board investigates a complaint made against ASHI member, Jim Morrison, for the possibility of unprofessional behavior associated with his activities at www.nonachi.blogspot.org , his fellow conspirator, ASHI member Joe Kelley, has taken over the reins.

This time, Kelley admits to editing from his blog those comments that do not agree his.

Read ASHI member Kelley's take on the recent court battles he has lost. Say goodbye to Morrison's one and only editorial position as it makes its last gasps...

ASHI-run PHIC Loses Court Battle for Legitimacy

No commentary, just fact. Read it, here.