Home Inspector Training

HomePro Home Inspections has trained several inspectors over the last decade and offers training to those interested in making a career in the home inspection industry. Proper training prior to going into the home inspection business is vital to providing a valuable service to your client and vital to your success.

As you will see below, getting the proper training to enter the home inspection business is a big commitment of time and money. Before making this commitment, determine if this is the right career for you. Many people come to us wanting to be home inspectors without really knowing what the work is all about. Traversing crawlspaces or climbing on roofs may not be your definition of a fun day. You’ll also have to be a good communicator with above average people skills.

There are several training options available. HomePro offers classroom training, a correspondence course, and field training.

• Hands On Classroom Training
  

Our five day, 60 hr. home inspector course emphasizes practical, hands-on training. Students are free to manipulate all equipment on hand in order to become comfortable with the hardware they will encounter in the field. Training aids include machinery, systems, and components of all types. You will get hands-on training with a wide variety of electrical panels, distribution systems (fuses, circuit breakers, trough and sub-panel systems), furnaces, boilers, air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters, well pumps, and much more!

• Experience Counts
  

We teach what we know and we know what works. The main campus of the Professional Home Inspectors Institute is located in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. Our instructors are professional home inspectors. Each has performed thousands of Home Inspections and taught at the Institute for several years. The experience at this location includes over 100,000 home inspections performed, and over 2,000 home inspectors trained. Our students are from all across North America. Many of our graduates are now operating large, multi-inspector business. Training with us does not guarantee success; that will be in your hands. It does guarantee that you will receive the best training available, from the most experienced staff available, using the best resources available, in the most advanced facility dedicated to training home inspectors.

• Correspondence Course
  

Our Correspondence Course allows you to study all components of home inspections or to select any subject area for further study. It is available in a variety of mediums that allow you to choose the way you learn best. The course includes books, videos, CD-ROMS, and computer testing software and is conveniently broken down into these easy to master home inspection components:

• Structures
  
  
• Mechanical Systems
  
  
• Electrical & Plumbing
  
  
• Interiors
  
  
• Exteriors
  
  
• Business Administration
  

Books and Videos

Learn from nationally renowned Home Inspectors. The authors of our books know the Home Inspection business inside and out. They have created successful home inspector training schools and home inspection businesses. If you are just thinking about the business and need more information to decide whether this is for you, or if you are an experienced home inspector looking for advanced texts on specific subject matter, we have the books for you!

Nineteen (19) hours of professional video. This video taped instruction includes actual lectures on topics covered in the Professional Home Inspectors Institute (PHII). The content is indispensable knowledge for those who perform Home Inspections. Whether you are an "old hand" or new to the craft, this content is something you must have. The tapes are available for first time learners or those who wish to review a few sections of the week long class. Example: Those who have little knowledge of mechanical systems will find watching the mechanical videos will help them to better understand the subject.

CD-ROM QuickSearch®

QuickSearch® contains thousands of pictures of house problems with descriptive text. It allows you to look at a picture and quickly identify a house item or problem and then learn whether it has a history of being problematic. This is a necessary visual skills sharpening exercise for any inspector. The exposure to both a wide variety and a large quantity of home problems, which would normally take years of field training to observe first hand, gives our students the competitive edge they need to succeed.

Interactive Learning/Testing Software
Are you getting into the home inspection business from a similar trade (engineering or architecture for instance) and want to find out how much you know about the field to see if this is a good career move for you? Have you taken an Inspector Training Course and want to test how much you have learned, or how much more you need to learn? Do you have a fear of test taking?

Our interactive Learning/Testing software is like having your own copy of the teacher’s manual with all the answers. This computer software is programmed to teach as well as review. It tells you why your answer was right or wrong with detailed explanations. Learning/Testing keeps track of scores in a detailed history file for ready access to progress reports. Quiz sessions broken down into small groups for easy learning.

• Field Training
  

The next step is to ride along with seasoned inspectors to gain the experience needed to interact with the client, learn how to properly inspect various pieces of equipment, gain experience in estimating the age of equipment and systems, how to disclose and report information to the client, and other inspection protocol. You will learn, on a one-on-one basis, everything you need to know to operate effectively in the field. If you must support yourself and your family, you need to learn from professionals who are doing the same.

It usually requires completing about 35 to 60 field training home inspections for a student inspector to become qualified to perform home inspections. Please note: each student’s required field experience may vary. Field training is offered at $500 for all the inspections you can attend during a week (7 days), or a student may choose to pick and choose the inspections and these are available at $50 per inspection. Field training is offered every week from our Webster, NY office and the Falls Church, VA location.

You can purchase or learn more about our training options!