Due to state licensing requirements in Washington state, all new home inspectors must take a 120 hour class in the fundamentals of home inspection and complete 40 hours of field training, prior to be allowed to sit for the state licensing exam. There are several courses now approved by the state to provide fundamentals training. The longest running, and most established program offered by a state college, is at Bellingham Technical College.

The next fundamentals class at Bellingham Technical College begins on January 4th. I was checking the registration statistics today and discovered that we only have two slots left in the class and we are still thirty days out from classes beginning. This is a college level class offered through the state community college system.

Anyone interested in enrolling in this class should plan to do so quickly because the initial 14, of the 16 possible, enrolled in the first week of registration. Hyping someone to take the class is not my goal, as you can see there is plenty of interest, but anyone who is mulling it over, trying to figure out if they want to take the class or not, had better make a decision pretty soon or the class will be full.