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01 April 2008
XL Pro Titanium Edition tech support and free updates/upgrades
The free updates, upgrades, and
tech support period for XL Pro Titanium Edition has been increased from
six months to a full year. The change is retroactive to 01 January
2008. Anyone who purchased XL Pro Titanium Edition on or after 01
January 2008 will automatically qualify for a full year of free updates,
upgrades, and technical support.
02 March 2008
Online
CMI meeting and continuing education class
Instructor George Wells will be hosting the monthly online CMI meeting
and continuing education class again this month. The topic for this month is
Commercial Inspections. Doing commercial inspections is not as difficult as you
may think. There are many similarities between home and commercial building
inspections. Of course, there are differences too. With the right knowledge
and a little guidance, you can add commercial inspections to the services you
provide.
The class is free to everyone. It is approved for one hour of continuing
education for CMI, CRI (InterNACHI), CFI and CFA (North American Institute of
Appraisers and Inspectors, and CCBI (Management Science Institute). The meeting
is held on the CMI message board in the live chat area where we have been doing
the live sessions for Electrical course CMI39420. Be sure to log in a little
early to make sure you have a connection and sound.
Electrical course CMI39420
Some of you have not had a chance to participate yet in any of the live
sessions for Electrical course CMI39420. We will be doing another live session
soon. Watch your e-mail and the blog for announcements.
Electrical course CMI39420
Many of you have been asking when we will be doing live sessions for the
next electrical course in the series. You need to enroll in the course first.
It only cost $36 and you can participate in as many live sessions as you want
for an entire year. If you purchased a BestInspectors.Net course that includes
all continuing education for a full year, you do not need to pay the $36 but you
do need to register. As soon as we have enough people for a class, we will
schedule a live online session.
Classroom Courses
Home Inspection
We are doing four hour classes Tuesday evenings at Skills Training Center in
Toledo, 5:30-8:30 pm EST. Eight core modules are required for certification for
anyone seeking certification. Upon the completion of the eight core courses,
you will take a proctored exam. The courses are each independent of one
another so you can enter the program at any time. You can take the courses in
any order. You are only required to take eight courses if you are seeking
certification with a proctored exam. You can also take only one course if you
want.
The courses are also approved for four hours of continuing education for CMI,
CRI (InterNACHI), and CFI and CFA (North American Institute of Appraisers and
Inspectors for those who are already certified.
Courses taken at other participating schools in the core subjects can be applied
toward your certification requirements. the four participating schools are
BestInspectors.Net (also its parent MSI International and sister organization
Management Science Institute), Merrell Institute in Bohemia (Long Island) New
York, Skills Training Center in Toledo, and Real Estate Training Academy in
Burton (Flint).
New York
Inspectors seeking a
New York home inspectors license can obtain the required education at
Merrell Institute in Bohemia (Long Island). Merrell Institute has a
140-hour course starting March 24, 2008. Call or write for additional
information.
CMI
We have a complete series of courses to prepare you for the CMI.
Call or write for details on the CMI approved courses.
Contractor/ Master Required Continuing Education
We will be starting a series of courses in the Toledo and Burton
locations later this month for licensed contractors and licensed Master
Tradesmen in Electrical (OH & MI), Plumbing (OH), HVAC (OH),
Refrigeration (OH), Hydronics (OH), Fire Alarm (MI), and Sign
Specialists (MI). All Ohio trades are now back on a one year cycle.
Michigan trades are on a three year cycle.
These courses are approved by the Ohio Construction Industry Licensing
Board (OCILB) and the Michigan Bureau of Construction Codes. They are
also approved for Certified Commercial Building Inspector (CBBI) and
Certified Master Inspector (CMI) continuing education.
ICC Exam Preparation
Residential construction
24 hour International Code Council residential construction exam
preparation classes will begin in late April or early May. Dates and
times have not yet been announced. We guarantee that you will pass the
exam. Watch your e-mail for dates and times.
Building Maintenance Code
The recently passed law requiring home inspections on certain homes in
Toledo mandates that inspectors will be required to inspect for ICC
Building Maintenance Code compliance. The law goes into effect in May
2008. We will be holding ICC Building Maintenance classes in April.
Dates and times have not yet been announced.
If you have any
questions about any of these courses, call us at 213-291-1717 in the US
or 416-628-1390 in Canada or write to us at msi@msi.ms. Please include
the course name or subject in the e-mail subject line.
22 January 2008
Free, live, online course: "Inspecting Residential
Electrical Systems" January 30, 2008 (evening)
The
next live session for the free Electrical Course CMI39420 will be
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 8:30 pm. EST (5:30 pm. PST)
These advanced online courses are FREE to InterNACHI
members and Certified Master Inspectors.
The live session for Electrical Course CMI39420 will be held on:
- Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 8:30 pm. EST (5:30 p.m. PST)
The group size will be limited to approximately 50
participants. The live online session must be completed in addition to
the Self-Study portion of the course in order to receive your 4
InterNACHI or 4 CMI CEU's. The session will run for at approximately 90
minutes.
In order to participate, you will need to meet certain prerequisites:
1. Register for the CMI Forum:
If you are not already registered for the CMI Forum, you will
need to register for access to the Forum. The class will be
held in a pivate Chat Room in the Forum. The CMI Forum requires
you to have the latest version of Java installed on your PC or
MAC. You probably already have Java installed but you should
register for the CMI forum at least a day before the class to
ensure that you are able to log in to the forum and participate
in the discussion.
The CMI Forum is located here:
http://www.certifiedmaster.com/forum/index.php
2. Register for the Electrical Course:
If you have not already registered for the Electrical course,
you must first register with BestInspectors.Net. The course is
administered through BestInspectors.Net's Tips For Success
newsletter. You can register here:
http://www.bestinspectors.net/tipsforsuccess.htm
Access to the course and the course Blog, additional
information, and instructions will be e-mailed to the Tips For
Success subscribers.
3. Complete the Self Study Portion of the Course in Advance of the
Online Session:
All Participants must complete the Self-Study
portion of the course before attending an
online session. A link to access the course will be e-mailed
to Tips For Success subscribers.
We currently have approximately 175 inspectors who are
enrolled in the course. We will schedule additional live online
sessions over the next few weeks so everyone will have an
opportunity to complete the course. Anyone can do the Self-Study
portion of the course at any time. Participants should expect to
spend approximately three hours on Self-Study. Please do not
attend the online sessions until you have completed the Self-Study
portion of the course.
The recent live online electrical classes presented by the
Master Inspector Certification Board and
BestInspectors.Net have been very popular. Several hundred
inspectors have already completed the course. CMI and
BestInspectors.Net will continue to do regular live 1-2 hour
sessions to answer questions related directly to the course and
other electrical questions.
The course focuses on identifying the common causes of electrical
fires, explosions, or electrocution hazards. You will learn which
parts of an electrical system are most important to inspect and how
to inspect them. Identifying and diagnosing electrical problems is
not as much about what you can see as it is about what you cannot
see.
You will learn how to evaluate an electrical system based what you
can see without disassembling anything. You will also learn why you
may sometimes get false readings from electrical testers and what to
do about it. You will learn how to properly perform the tests that
will tell what you need to know about an electrical system.
Approved for 4 InterNACHI Continuing Education Hours
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Inspection Report Software, Tools, Books, CD's
Home and Commercial Inspection Report Software
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November 2007
Books
Throughout the Fall and Winter, we will be expanding
our selection of books to meet the growing demand for reference materials and
continuing education. More than ever,
BestInspectors.Net
will be your one-stop shop for all your
continuing education and reference needs and - as always - you'll find
the best prices available anywhere.
29 August 2007
XL Pro Titanium Edition
Home and Commercial
Inspection Report and Business System
Version 8
Request a Demo:
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14 August 2007
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that you can COMPLETE and
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Details
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14 August 2007
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Advanced Technology PDF
Inspection Report
The FIRST and
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that you can COMPLETE and
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Details
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15 March 2007
XL Pro Express
State of the Art
Home and commercial Inspection report
Release date: March 15,
2007
8
Easy to use
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Comprehensive
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Flexible
8
Value priced
15 March 2007
New
XL Pro Legacy
Version 8.2
Home and commercial Inspection report
Release date: March 15,
2007
The Legacy continues
The Legacy
continues with the latest in ever popular Legacy Series. The
Legacy Series inspection reports are the most popular inspection reports
of all time. The all new Legacy 8 brings features and options
never before seen in a Legacy Series report.
Here's what's new:
New XL Pro Command Bar
New XL Pro Menu
New customizable Comments and Descriptors Library with more than 100
categories
New "Select Pages to Print" feature
Expanded TREC pages added
Improved spelling checker
New grammar checker
Improved navigation
More photo placement options
New customizable "Company Name" font properties
Expanded TREC pages added
Improved installation
Learn More about XL Pro Legacy or
Purchase
01 February 2007
XL Pro Bronze Edition
XL Pro Bronze Edition is only available from Merrell Institute, effective 15 March 2007.
It has been replaced by the new XL Pro Legacy
and XL Pro Express
. Technical support for XL Pro Bronze Edition
will be available until 01 November 2007 for BestInspectors.Net students
customers and will continue into 2008 for Merrell Institute students and
customers.
Certified Master Inspectorฎ
Earn your CMI designation
Classes are now forming
Call or write for details.
Visit the CMI web site
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New
XL Pro Command Bar
The powerful XL Pro
Command Bar now comes to the Titanium Edition.
Previously only available in the Silver, Gold, and
Platinum Editions, the XL Pro Command Bar brings the
power of Titanium Edition's most popular features to the
forefront. The XL Pro Command Bar is accessible at
all times regardless of where you are in the report or
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New
Photo Placement Options
Do you sometimes want to place a photo
right among your text, alongside a narrative, or next to
check boxes related to the item depicted in the photo?
Now you can. You still have the photo album pages
that you have always had in XL Pro Titanium edition but
now you can place a photo almost anywhere in the report.
No other inspection report software gives you so many
options. |
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New
Advanced Spelling, Punctuation,
and Grammar Checking
No other inspection report system has the advanced
Spelling and Grammar checking capabilities of XL Pro
Titanium Edition. Highlight any text in the report
and click a button on the XL Pro Command Bar.
It's that easy! XL Pro Titanium Edition's Spelling
Checker will advise you not only of spelling errors but
will make suggestions for punctuation and grammar too. |
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New
Pages
XL Pro Titanium
Edition features a complete new set of pages.
These pages were designed from the ground up based on
the feedback of many of our thousands of inspectors who
use our report systems and feedback from home buyers.
The new pages are easier to read, have a more
contemporary look and make report writing faster and
easier than ever before. |
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New
Define Standard Report
The ability to define
a standard report and save it as your default or as a
template is one of the most popular features of the
Silver Gold and Platinum Editions but was previously not
available in the Titanium Edition.
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New
Support for UMPC's
Support handwriting
recognition is just the start. XL Pro titanium
Edition's new pages are optimized for use on the smaller
screens of Ultra Mobile Personal
Computer's. UMPC's are the perfect alternative
to cumbersome, inefficient, difficult to use Pocket PC's.
Pocket PC's are
impractical to use for inspections because of the
difficulties associated with the scaled down operating
systems, small screen size, need for a second PC, and a
host of other deficiencies. UMPC's solve all those
problems and provide all the benefits of a
hand held PC. XL Pro Titanium is the inspection
industry's first reporting software optimized for use on
UMPC's.
Of course, if you are
using a Laptop, Notebook, or Desktop PC, XL Pro Titanium
Edition works equally well on those platforms. In
fact it is the only inspection report
software designed specifically to run on all these
platforms. |
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New
Improved Navigation
With so many sheets
to select from to build your report, you need a way to
quickly view and navigate to pages in the report.
XL Pro Titanium Edition's new navigation system gives
you two method's in which to navigate to pages.
You still have the traditional line-up of page names at
the bottom of the screen in the order that you have them
arranged (to follow the sequence of your inspections).
Now you have a second, lightning fast, alphabetically
arranged drop down menu of page names that allow you to
jump directly to any page in the report.
Another new navigation
tool is the "Home" button on the XL Pro Command Bar.
There are times when you are working on a report that
you want to jump to the beginning of the report.
The Home button instantly takes you directly to the
report's cover page. |
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