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Why Recommend ASHI®?
Q. Why do you always recommend home buyers hire inspectors who belong to the American Society of Home Inspectors? I am a professional home inspector formerly a home builder, who chooses not to become an ASHI member because of their outrageous requirements. There are several other excellent home inspection organizations which have equally competent inspector members. Does ASHI pay you? - anonymous
" ASHI does not pay me to recommend their fine national organization. Non-ASHI members like you often complain that I don’t mention their home inspection organizations. There are many inspectors who are not ASHI members. However, I know of no other nationwide group that has as such high membership standards. Do you?
Unfortunately, some realty agents often recommend non-ASHI home inspectors who are known as easy non-deal killers. But home buyers need tough, honest inspectors who will thoroughly inspect homes and report to buyers the facts discovered."
-Bob Bruss
For 23 years, Robert Bruss has written the weekly syndicated "Real Estate Mailbag" question and answer real estate column, the "Real Estate Notebook" feature on real estate trends, "Real Estate Law and You" about recent court decisions affecting real estate and "Real Estate Book Review" features.
Sometimes called the "Dear Abby of real
estate", Bruss publishes two monthly newsletters, the Robert Bruss Real Estate
Law Newsletter and the Robert Bruss National Real Estate Newsletter. He is the
author of The Smart Investor's Guide to Real Estate, The California Foreclosure
Book - How to Earn Big Profits From California Foreclosure and Distressed
Properties and co-author with Dr. William Pivar of the college textbook
Bruss received his
Juris Doctorate degree from the
Bruss is a California Real Estate attorney and a real estate broker as well as a former director of the National Association of Real Estate Editors. Bruss is the winner of the 1997 Norman Woest Outstanding California Real Estate Educator Award.