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Today's Topics:

1. Update on Home Inspector and Mold Licensing    Regulations
(Bob Koning)
2. Home  Inspections (Mark Tyson)
3. Re: Update on Home Inspector and  Mold LicensingRegulations
(wr290 at aol.com)


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Message:  1
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:57 -0400
From: "Bob Koning"  <Bob at ContractorsInstitute.com>
Subject: [Florida Code Talk] Update on  Home Inspector and Mold
Licensing    Regulations
To: <codetalk at myfloridacode.com>
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<DF3E330A92E8DB46B82D104B79FC3BBF294C00 at mailbox.hudson.koning.com>
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Group, 



I have great news  and fair news to report back to you regarding the home
inspection, mold  assessor, and mold remediator licensing statutes  and
amendments.



First the Great News; Thanks to the  Herculean efforts of your e-mails
and the strong support of Rep. Workman,  we were able to negotiate
amended language that was added to house bill 713  on the April 9, 2010
council meeting. These amendments effectively achieve  two thirds of our
goals.



With these changes, we have  retained the ability to continue performing
home inspections as state  certified division 1 contractors (but we must
become licensed under the new  statute) and more importantly, we have
retained the ability to perform both  the home inspection and remedial
repair work for our clients, if they  desire it (and they usually do).



With these changes, we have  also retained the ability to continue
performing mold assessment and/or  mold remediation services as state
certified division 1 contractors (after  becoming licensed under the new
statute) but again, more importantly, we  have retained the ability to
perform both mold assessment and mold  remediation services for our
clients as they desire it.



This  represents two thirds of our original goal and was attained with a
great  deal of effort for reasons that will become evident as you
continue to  read.



Lastly the Fair News; The last item we need to attain  (since we are not
going to be exempted from the statutes) is an automatic  or 'de facto'
recognition that if licensed as a state certified division 1  contractor,
it would qualify an individual for licensure as a home  inspector, mold
assessor, or mold remediator. This, although not promised,  is to be
dealt with during the rulemaking process performed by the  Department of
Professional Regulation beginning in May of this year. I will  update you
on the dates of the Rule Making Committee meeting in Tallahassee  - and I
intend on being there in person! I will however be needing  your
assistance, since I myself have no clout, am not a lobbyist, and do  not
represent a specific association - it is only when they received  your
mass e-mails that they listened to the will of the contractors  through
the vessel that delivered the message - that was (and will be) me  unless
somebody else is willing to pick up the reins.  





Why did this happen?

I really must agree with  the lawmakers who told me they were "caught off
guard" by our e-mail  campaign and my verbal arguments delivered to the
committee meeting. They  simply had no idea of the impact of what they
were proposing. They had  contacted the Florida Home Builders Association
with the entire statutory  amendments that contained these calamities and
were assured by their  lobbyist that all was okay with the contractors in
Florida regarding these  provisions and loss of scope. I personally
talked to their lobbyist and  after a prolonged discussion outlining the
potential losses by our  contractors and the economic impact to the
citizens of the state of  Florida, I still did not get any support
whatsoever from that lobbyist or  the Florida Home Builders Association
in preserving the existing abilities  of our scopes of work.



The Florida Home Builders Association  has proven itself a valuable ally
through the years and I have personally  donated teaching time at their
annual conventions. I do not know what has  happened within the
Association and I wish no grievances with them, but I  will voice my
frustration to them openly and ask them to "step up to the  plate" during
the rulemaking process and assist me so that we may become  grandfathered
without having to prove that we have performed 120  inspections in the
past three years under the home inspector statute or  prove completion of
at least 40 mold assessments and remediations for  grandfathering under
the mold statute.



Even though this may  seem a shallow victory (considering the fact that
we can perform all of  these services currently without any additional
licensure), remember that  without these current amendments to the
legislation we had lost it all.  Even if we had attained automatic
licensure, without this statutory change,  we would not have been able to
perform multiple services for the same  client on the same building.
Thank God we fixed that! So to all who aided  in the campaign, pat
yourself on the back, for it has been a job well  done.



Remember we are not out of the woods, but we are at the  edge of the
clearing. I will be notifying you when the rulemaking meetings  begin.
Until then, God bless.





R.J.Koning -  Director

Contractors  Institute

rjkoning at contractorsinstitute.com

8301 Joliet  Street



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 14 Apr  2010 09:09:39 -0400
From: "Mark Tyson"  <mtyson at wildblue.net>
Subject: [Florida Code Talk] Home  Inspections
To: <codetalk at myfloridacode.com>
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Bob,



If ever there was a  herculean effort it was by you. Thank you for your
diligence in looking out  for and educating the contractors of the state  of
Florida



Regards,

Mark Tyson



Tyson  Home Inspections

M Tyson Construction LLC.

of   772.489.9648  mb  561.756.3075  fx   772.465.9731

Certified General Contractor  #1516843

http://www.TysonHomeInspections.com



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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 14 Apr  2010 14:58:55 +0000
From: wr290 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Florida Code Talk]  Update on Home Inspector and Mold
LicensingRegulations
To:  "Bob Koning" <Bob at contractorsinstitute.com>,
codetalk-bounces at myfloridacode.com,  codetalk at myfloridacode.com
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Bob

What about the million e  and O insurance. Many existing contractors will 
not be able to qualify with  there insurance company. Needless to say the 
exorbant pass thru of priemieums  to the home ownr

Tom Ricci
Sent via BlackBerry by  AT&T

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bob Koning"  <Bob at contractorsinstitute.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:57  
To: <codetalk at myfloridacode.com>
Subject: [Florida Code Talk]  Update on Home Inspector and Mold Licensing
Regulations

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