Inspection Training Northwest, not only covers many subjects involved with home inspection, but also broadens the scope of instruction to include marketing, forms, contract for service and other topics that will help you to start and run a successful home inspection business.  This is the only Home Inspector's Course that allows the student to study at home at their own pace and then attend a classroom training seminar, participate in a field training environment where they perform hands-on instructor led inspections of real homes.  Check list report forms and other materials are the property of the students and they may make unlimited copies for their use in their business.  The ITNW instructor, as well as the other instructors, and later the A.I.I.® members, care about your success and are available to assist you in working toward your professional success, not just for this class, but also after the classroom training on a continuing basis.

The Home Study Course includes:  4 DVD's with 10 sections about Home Inspections, Roofing, Home Interiors and Exteriors, Electrical Systems, Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems, Plumbing Systems, Tools, Techniques for a Complete Home Inspection, a 15 Page Report Form, Home Inspection Business Plan, Marketing Materials, Easy-to-follow "Steps To Success" that provides a guide for your study progress, Training Manual, Self-test study exams, Illustrated Home Reference Manual, Code Check Reference Manual, National Home Inspector Examination Study Guide and much more.  The students from Oregon also receive a Study Guide for the 5 Part Oregon Inspector Certification Examination and receive a minimum of 13.5 eligibility points for the Oregon Home Inspector Exam.  There are 3 instructor led home inspections on real homes.  The seminar style classroom portion of the course is conducted in a casual format encouraging questions, discussion, the exchange of ideas and information and is accentuated by an oral and visual power point presentation covering the many aspects of many and varied actual Home Inspection issues.  Oral marketing presentations are also encouraged to prepare the students for presenting themselves to Real Estate Agents, the Lending Community and to buyer and seller clients.  Certificates of course completion are presented at the conclusion of the training. Home inspection training from a good instructor will help set you on the road to success.

Inspection Training Northwest provides a real hands-on training environment for the student working toward being a Professional Home Inspector, which is a dynamic, changing, challenging and rewarding career.  The course is not just a classroom with mock-ups and text books, it is a fully involved experience that provides real time examples, experiences and conditions including instructor led inspections of real homes each day of class.  The instructor cares about your success.  He is a professional, Certified Master Inspector who has owned a home inspection business prior to becoming an educator.  You will also receive the best support as you grow on a continuing basis from the instructor.  By joining the American Institute of Inspectors™ (A.I.I.®)[see www.inspection.org], a national non-profit professional association of home inspectors, there is an unlimited amount of support and materials as well as continuing education opportunity available to you.  A.I.I.® provides a weekly Internet newsletter, the MMM, a national e-mail hotline for immediate answers to all your questions, a web based forum/library for ongoing and past archived information.  A.I.I.® also has two yearly continuing education conferences that provide opportunities to become certified in other areas of inspection, such as Commercial Inspector or Manufactured Home Inspector, as well as classes on the latest developments in Home Inspection.  Very quickly you will advance to a computer driven color report.  Examples of those reports and the latest developments in software are presented during the seminar course.

Jim Corbin, Inspection Training Northwest's Certified Home Inspector Educator, is a retired Mechanical Engineer from the design, operation, construction and maintenance side of the Petroleum Industry and is a retired  Lt. Colonel in the USAF.  He has been a licensed Professional Engineer in Washington State since 1974 and is certified to perform a variety of home, structural and property inspections, Commercial Inspections, Manufactured Home Inspections and he is a certified HUD 203(k) Consultant for HUD/FHA residential rehabilitations.  Jim is past President, Vice President and a member of the Board of Director for the American Institute of Inspectors and is a Master Inspector.  Jim will lead the classes offered at Inspection Training Northwest.