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My Florida Home Inspector is your place to find certified inspectors and understand Florida's home ownership guidelines.
Florida can either be heaven or hell depending on the weather, where you buy your home or who you choose to inspect your home before you buy, sell or invest. Florida has the strictest full disclosure laws in the country when it comes to buying a home. But it has absolutely no requirements for home inspectors until 2010.
So if someone has a flashlight and ladder they could say they are a home inspector but are they?
Do you want to trust your investment to someone that you don't know and have no idea if he or she is qualified to do a home inspection?
Hopefully you want someone who is qualified and will back up their inspection with not only a signed inspection report but who has the training and insurance to back them up just in case there should be something missed.
This is why we established this website to help Florida Home Owners and future Florida Home Owners have a place that lists only trained professional home inspector for them to chose from. So they can have piece of mind knowing that the home inspector they've chosen from our list will do the job and do it right.
Our listed inspectors are members of NACHI (National Association of Certified Home Inspectors) and ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors) which are both recognized as having the most qualified group of home inspectors in the world. Below is an overall code of Ethics.
- Duty to the
Public
- The member shall abide by the following Code of Ethics and substantially follow the Standards of Practice.
- The member will not engage in any practices that could be damaging to the public or bring discredit to the home inspection industry.
- The member shall be fair, honest, impartial, and act in good faith in dealing with the public.
- The member will not discriminate in any business activities on the basis of race, religion, sex, national origin, familial status, sexual orientation, or handicap and shall comply with all federal, state and local laws concerning discrimination.
- The member shall be truthful regarding his/her services & qualifications.
- The member will have no undisclosed conflict of interest with the client, nor will the member accept or offer any undisclosed commissions, rebates, profits or other benefit.
- The member will not communicate any information about an inspection to anyone except the client without the prior written consent of the client, except where it may affect the safety of others or violates a law or statute.
- The member shall always act in the interest of the client, unless doing so violates a law, statute or this Code of Ethics.
- The member shall use a written contract that specifies the services to be performed, limitations of services and fees.
- The member shall comply with all government rules and licensing requirements of the jurisdiction where he/she conducts business.
- The member shall not perform or offer to perform, for an additional fee, any repairs or associated services to structure on which the member or member's company has prepared a home inspection report, for a period of 12 months. This provision shall not include services to components and/or systems, which are not, included in the standards of practice.
The member will not engage in any act or practice that could be deemed damaging, seditious or destructive to fellow members, employees, leadership or directors. The Ethics Committee will be the finial determining factor in reviewing members accused of acting or deemed in violation of such rules and they will rule on a members possible sanctions and/or expulsion from membership.