Yet Another Standard?

ASTM has announced a meeting to decide to create their own standards of Practice for Residential homes. Your national organization's standards of practice are in jeopardy!

The American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI), whose SOP is the basis of HomeGauge's best and most popular template (called System By System), has announced their complete opposition to the creation of ASTM inspection standards and is asking all inspectors to help. Read the quote from the ASHI website below:

"ASHI opposes the proposed creation of ASTM inspection standards because we believe they would dilute or replace ASHI's existing industry standards which have been carefully crafted over time, standards which are based on the practical experience of untold numbers of professional home inspections. We believe this would directly undercut our continuous efforts to build the integrity, independence and professionalism of the home inspection profession and would harm our membership which believes that our profession should seek the highest levels of expertise rather than regress to the mean in a likely ASTM homogenization of the competing industry standards."

If you belong to another organization, please pass this on to them also. Read the full article here:

http://www.ashi.org/inspectors/standards/astm.asp

No matter what organization you belong to, their standards of practice are in jeopardy of being replaced by ASTM standards. What does this mean for a national organization? If you remove the standards, how can an organization differentiate itself from other organizations?

The good news is that HomeGauge software can produce any template from any organization including a proposed ASTM template. No matter what happens to the Standards of Practice, HomeGauge software will be ready!

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