Communication and Professional Practice

This text will provide you with a solid understanding of the inspection process including the reasons for home inspections and their place in real estate transactions. It will also provide you with background information essential for report writing, verbal communication skills, and understanding of strategies for managing your liabilities as an inspector. You will be introduced to the ASHI Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics.

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In this section you will learn about ASHI Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics. Components of written reports, general limitations to home inspectors, general exclusions. Things not required to do as part of an inspection. This section covers Inspections and Inspectors. Get a brief history, characteristics of a good inspector, vehicles, clothes. This section covers Typical Clients. When and why a home inspector is hired, the clients thoughts and feelings during a home inspection, distractions at a home inspection.  This section also covers The Inspection Process.  The parts of the inspection itself, strategies for awkward situations, common mistakes, closing discussions and key terms.

Required Text - Communication & Professional Practice  - Principles of Home Inspection by Dearborn Publishing Co - 225 pages - paperback

Approved for: Oregon Home Inspector CEU - 5 credit hours  $55 (Does not include cost of required textbook).

This section covers Liability. Prevention and response strategies, strategies for limiting liability.  This section covers The Real Estate Transaction, real estate sales process, the agents role in home inspections. This section covers Theory and Principals of Verbal Communication. Obstacles to effective communication, techniques for improving communication, nonverbal messages. This section also covers Report Writing. Why the reports are written and who writes them. How the report is created, when the reports are delivered. Report style and format, and what the report should contain and key terms.

Required Text - Communication & Professional Practice  - Principles of Home Inspection by Dearborn Publishing Co - 225 pages - paperback

Approved for: Oregon Home Inspector CEU - 5 credit hours  $55 (Does not include cost of required textbook).

Communication & Professional Practice Principles of Home Inspection by Dearborn Publishing Co - 225 pages - paperback

This textbook can be utilized to take any or all of the Communication & Professional Practice courses listed below. The text only needs to be purchased one time. Text is purchased separate from the course by clicking here.

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