I don’t really understand the comment about real estate agents or REALTORS® “They are concerned that home inspectors can continue to disrupt their transactions with no disciplinary measures other than the courts. One person told me “we just want a way to discipline home inspectors who write bad reports”.

I always thought licensing was about the consumer having recourse not about real estate agents. I never thought of real estate agents using licensing to discipline inspectors.

I have never looked at home inspectors disrupting a transaction, they are looking out for their clients interest. Hopefully they have the expertise to do so. It’s the consumers choice whom they bring to look out for their interest in a transaction. I thought licensing was just a way to weed out the people who have no expertise who might miss things for consumers.

I thought OAR’s support for licensing of home inspectors had to do with concern for consumers not concern for real estate agents but maybe it is just lip service. I will have to read up on it.

The Belmont Technical College study is interesting.