Maybe you feel it is time to change your career direction and perhaps
work for yourself running your own business, maybe in the fast moving
property sector? You have probably seen the adverts enticing people
like you to consider the advantages of becoming a Home Inspector,
Domestic Energy Assessor or Home Information Pack Provider?
So, before you rush into considering spending your hard-earned cash,
and investing your precious time undertaking significant training and
learning development to obtain the necessary qualifications, I suggest
you take time to look carefully at the likely rewards and returns from
making such an investment.
Over the last couple of years, certain companies and organisations
involved in the energy efficiency and property sectors set up training
courses to train new requirement for Home Inspectors and Domestic
Energy Assessors, in effect on behalf the Government. The training
courses were required to provide sufficient number Home Inspectors and
Domestic Energy Assessors to produce the crop of Home Condition
Reports and Energy Performance Certificates needed to comply with
changes to legislation.
Thousands of individuals saw the opportunity to change their career
and work for themselves as Home Inspectors or Domestic Energy
Assessors, and they paid several thousand pounds each for the
privilege.
During the passage of the legislation, the Government lost its nerve
and watered down its requirement for Home Information Packs to contain
the Home Condition Report. However, obligingly, the Government still
allowed Home Condition Reports to be provided for the Home Information
Pack on a 'voluntary' basis. What this means in effect is there is
virtually no demand by anyone selling their property for a Home
Condition Report, as they are relatively expensive. As a result, the
individuals that made significant investment in their time and money
to train as Home Inspector have been in effect 'conned' by the
Government.
The training bodies also went into overdrive and inducted thousands of
individuals onto courses to churn out Domestic Energy Assessors. The
first cohort of individuals undertaking the training and obtaining the
qualifications found themselves being able to command '120 or so for
providing an EPC. The only difficulty for those people was that the
Government restricted the size of residential properties requiring an
Energy Performance Certificate to 4 bedrooms and above, which reduced
the market size.
As the training bodies put more and more people through the Domestic
Energy Assessor 'sausage machine', the price qualified DEA's could
command began to drop sharply.
Some of the training bodies diversified their business interests to
provide 'panels' of qualified DEAs to provide the Energy Performance
Certificates, which they 'resell' to Estate Agents and Home
Information Pack Providers. It is fairly common now for DEAs to be
providing an Energy Performance Certificate for '50.
With the current depression in the housing market, there is less
properties coming onto the market, therefore competition in the Home
Information Pack market is intense. HIP providers need to cut their
costs as low as possible to win work and an obvious target is the fee
DEAs can command.
If you are considering investing your time and money to enter this
industry, then you should definitely test the market in the first
instance. You will inevitably find that there are far too many people
servicing a limited marketplace already.
In my view the companies still enticing people onto training courses
for Home Inspectors or Domestic Energy assessors are taking money
under false pretenses. The Government has been culpable in allowing
over-supply of qualified individuals and has in effect conned many out
of the not insignificant sum they have invested in both money and
their time.
You can find out more about Home Information Packs and Domestic Energy
Assessments at http://www.hip-hips.co.uk.
Secret For Generating Free Electricity: http://www.homeenergymi.tk/
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