<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
<BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>
<DIV>Thanks for you tremendous efforts, Bob!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>David Walker</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><IMG SRC="cid:X.MA1.1271262480@aol.com" border=0 width=55 height=48 DATASIZE="1526" ID="MA1.1271262480" ></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=1 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="8"><BR>C.
David Walker <BR>David Walker Building Contractor, LLC <BR>Florida Registered
Building Contractor RB 0067161<BR>New Home Construction / Old Home Renovation
& Restoration<BR>Insurance & Pre-Purchase Home Inspections<BR>Voice
850-712-4288, Fax 850-438-1235 [Call Voice # first]<BR><BR>This e-mail and its
attachments are subject to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC
2510-2521 and intended solely for the intended addressee. If you are not the
intended recipient, stop reading this message and delete it from your system.
Unauthorized retaining, reading, distribution, copying, or other use is strictly
prohibited. <BR>Thank you for your cooperation.</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#008000 size=6 face=Webdings FAMILY="SERIF" PTSIZE="24"><BR>P</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#008000 size=5 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="18"> </FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#008000 size=2 face="Palatino Linotype" FAMILY="SERIF" PTSIZE="10">Please consider the
environment before printing this email
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 4/14/2010 11:00:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
codetalk-request@myfloridacode.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Send
CodeTalk mailing list submissions to<BR>
codetalk@myfloridacode.com<BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World
Wide Web, visit<BR>
http://myfloridacode.com/mailman/listinfo/codetalk<BR>or, via email, send a
message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>
codetalk-request@myfloridacode.com<BR><BR>You can reach the person managing
the list at<BR> codetalk-owner@myfloridacode.com<BR><BR>When
replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re:
Contents of CodeTalk digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR>
1. Update on Home Inspector and Mold Licensing
Regulations<BR> (Bob Koning)<BR> 2. Home
Inspections (Mark Tyson)<BR> 3. Re: Update on Home Inspector and
Mold LicensingRegulations<BR>
(wr290@aol.com)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message:
1<BR>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:57 -0400<BR>From: "Bob Koning"
<Bob@ContractorsInstitute.com><BR>Subject: [Florida Code Talk] Update on
Home Inspector and Mold<BR> Licensing
Regulations<BR>To: <codetalk@myfloridacode.com><BR>Message-ID:<BR>
<DF3E330A92E8DB46B82D104B79FC3BBF294C00@mailbox.hudson.koning.com><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR><BR>Group, <BR><BR><BR><BR>I have great news
and fair news to report back to you regarding the home<BR>inspection, mold
assessor, and mold remediator licensing statutes
and<BR>amendments.<BR><BR><BR><BR>First the Great News; Thanks to the
Herculean efforts of your e-mails<BR>and the strong support of Rep. Workman,
we were able to negotiate<BR>amended language that was added to house bill 713
on the April 9, 2010<BR>council meeting. These amendments effectively achieve
two thirds of our<BR>goals.<BR><BR><BR><BR>With these changes, we have
retained the ability to continue performing<BR>home inspections as state
certified division 1 contractors (but we must<BR>become licensed under the new
statute) and more importantly, we have<BR>retained the ability to perform both
the home inspection and remedial<BR>repair work for our clients, if they
desire it (and they usually do).<BR><BR><BR><BR>With these changes, we have
also retained the ability to continue<BR>performing mold assessment and/or
mold remediation services as state<BR>certified division 1 contractors (after
becoming licensed under the new<BR>statute) but again, more importantly, we
have retained the ability to<BR>perform both mold assessment and mold
remediation services for our<BR>clients as they desire it.<BR><BR><BR><BR>This
represents two thirds of our original goal and was attained with a<BR>great
deal of effort for reasons that will become evident as you<BR>continue to
read.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Lastly the Fair News; The last item we need to attain
(since we are not<BR>going to be exempted from the statutes) is an automatic
or 'de facto'<BR>recognition that if licensed as a state certified division 1
contractor,<BR>it would qualify an individual for licensure as a home
inspector, mold<BR>assessor, or mold remediator. This, although not promised,
is to be<BR>dealt with during the rulemaking process performed by the
Department of<BR>Professional Regulation beginning in May of this year. I will
update you<BR>on the dates of the Rule Making Committee meeting in Tallahassee
- and I<BR>intend on being there in person! I will however be needing
your<BR>assistance, since I myself have no clout, am not a lobbyist, and do
not<BR>represent a specific association - it is only when they received
your<BR>mass e-mails that they listened to the will of the contractors
through<BR>the vessel that delivered the message - that was (and will be) me
unless<BR>somebody else is willing to pick up the reins.
<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Why did this happen?<BR><BR>I really must agree with
the lawmakers who told me they were "caught off<BR>guard" by our e-mail
campaign and my verbal arguments delivered to the<BR>committee meeting. They
simply had no idea of the impact of what they<BR>were proposing. They had
contacted the Florida Home Builders Association<BR>with the entire statutory
amendments that contained these calamities and<BR>were assured by their
lobbyist that all was okay with the contractors in<BR>Florida regarding these
provisions and loss of scope. I personally<BR>talked to their lobbyist and
after a prolonged discussion outlining the<BR>potential losses by our
contractors and the economic impact to the<BR>citizens of the state of
Florida, I still did not get any support<BR>whatsoever from that lobbyist or
the Florida Home Builders Association<BR>in preserving the existing abilities
of our scopes of work.<BR><BR><BR><BR>The Florida Home Builders Association
has proven itself a valuable ally<BR>through the years and I have personally
donated teaching time at their<BR>annual conventions. I do not know what has
happened within the<BR>Association and I wish no grievances with them, but I
will voice my<BR>frustration to them openly and ask them to "step up to the
plate" during<BR>the rulemaking process and assist me so that we may become
grandfathered<BR>without having to prove that we have performed 120
inspections in the<BR>past three years under the home inspector statute or
prove completion of<BR>at least 40 mold assessments and remediations for
grandfathering under<BR>the mold statute.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Even though this may
seem a shallow victory (considering the fact that<BR>we can perform all of
these services currently without any additional<BR>licensure), remember that
without these current amendments to the<BR>legislation we had lost it all.
Even if we had attained automatic<BR>licensure, without this statutory change,
we would not have been able to<BR>perform multiple services for the same
client on the same building.<BR>Thank God we fixed that! So to all who aided
in the campaign, pat<BR>yourself on the back, for it has been a job well
done.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Remember we are not out of the woods, but we are at the
edge of the<BR>clearing. I will be notifying you when the rulemaking meetings
begin.<BR>Until then, God bless.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>R.J.Koning -
Director<BR><BR>Contractors
Institute<BR><BR>rjkoning@contractorsinstitute.com<BR><BR>8301 Joliet
Street<BR><BR><BR><BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML
attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL:
http://myfloridacode.com/pipermail/codetalk/attachments/20100413/f327b2bb/attachment-0001.html
<BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 2<BR>Date: Wed, 14 Apr
2010 09:09:39 -0400<BR>From: "Mark Tyson"
<mtyson@wildblue.net><BR>Subject: [Florida Code Talk] Home
Inspections<BR>To: <codetalk@myfloridacode.com><BR>Message-ID:
<D9D903628A814713815EFC0097FABBFB@yourf5358a91b8><BR>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR><BR>Bob,<BR><BR><BR><BR>If ever there was a
herculean effort it was by you. Thank you for your<BR>diligence in looking out
for and educating the contractors of the state
of<BR>Florida<BR><BR><BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Mark Tyson<BR><BR><BR><BR>Tyson
Home Inspections<BR><BR>M Tyson Construction LLC.<BR><BR>of
772.489.9648 mb 561.756.3075 fx
772.465.9731<BR><BR>Certified General Contractor
#1516843<BR><BR>http://www.TysonHomeInspections.com<BR><BR><BR><BR>--------------
next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL:
http://myfloridacode.com/pipermail/codetalk/attachments/20100414/916e24cf/attachment-0001.html
<BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 3<BR>Date: Wed, 14 Apr
2010 14:58:55 +0000<BR>From: wr290@aol.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Florida Code Talk]
Update on Home Inspector and Mold<BR> LicensingRegulations<BR>To:
"Bob Koning" <Bob@contractorsinstitute.com>,<BR>
codetalk-bounces@myfloridacode.com,
codetalk@myfloridacode.com<BR>Message-ID:<BR>
<998525945-1271257113-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-990695614-@bda014.bisx.prod.on.blackberry><BR>
<BR>Content-Type: text/plain<BR><BR>Bob<BR><BR>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<BR><BR>Tom Ricci<BR>Sent via BlackBerry by
AT&T<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: "Bob Koning"
<Bob@contractorsinstitute.com><BR>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:57
<BR>To: <codetalk@myfloridacode.com><BR>Subject: [Florida Code Talk]
Update on Home Inspector and Mold Licensing<BR>
Regulations<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>CodeTalk
mailing list<BR>CodeTalk@myfloridacode.com<BR>Unsubscribe by sending an email
to codetalk-unsubscribe@myfloridacode.com<BR>or<BR>Unsubscribe or change your
options
at:<BR>http://myfloridacode.com/mailman/listinfo/codetalk<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>CodeTalk
mailing
list<BR>CodeTalk@myfloridacode.com<BR>http://myfloridacode.com/mailman/listinfo/codetalk<BR><BR><BR>End
of CodeTalk Digest, Vol 56, Issue
2<BR>***************************************<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>