PROFESSIONAL HOME INSPECTOR & APPRAISER MESSAGE BOARD/ON-LINE FORUM AND INTERACTIVE ONLINE CLASSROOM

Mortgage Leads Mortgage Broker Directory

FreshARMLeads — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:27:15 GMT

Fresh ARM Leads generates high quality mortgage leads, preforeclosure leads and Mortgage Broker/Mortgage Banker Directories for those looking to advertise their product/service to these individuals. Directory listings include the contact's name, company name, company address, phone number, email address, fax number number (where available).

Please visit our website for more information:

www.fresharmleads.com

Jen Raymond
Fresh ARM Leads
(877)349-2084 office
(877)674-8663 fax
www.fresharmleads.com

Forum: Vendors Advertise Here FREE

THE SUCCESS HANDBOOK 2008

nyprofessional — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:57:50 GMT

In the final editing stages. It will be available on or about May 2008. The retail price of this book is expacted at $ 29.95. If you submit your name and address, we can advance order you a manuscript for the fee of $ 15.00, including shipping and handling. That's over 1/2 off when you take into account the cost to mail the book to you.

Simply give us your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.

We will confirm it's shipment to you with an e-mail and all we ask is that you mail us a check for this item.

Thanks in advance, and we hope that you benefit from this Success Handbook. It is sponsored by the www.northamericanassociationnetwork.com for Home Inspectors and Appraisers throughout North America. Yes, Canadians will also benefit from the book, and the charge is the same for canadians.

Hand a great day, and a very successful career!

Bill 631-563-7720

www.merrellinstitute.com
www.northamericanassociationnetwork.com

Forum: ASK BILL MERRELL, Ph.D., CMI, CFI, CFA,

George has a 1 hour Commerical Inspection Class

nyprofessional — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:48:01 GMT

Sponsored by bestinspectors.net and offered on the CMI Message Board, I think you will enjoy this, and it is free.

To get more information, go to George Wells' Site. www.bestinspectors.net . He is a software developer and a home inspector as well as a property inspectors for commercial and industrial properties. His qualifications are well known and he has taught in over 20 states for many years to date. I am proud to say he has also taught at my school and is NYS approved to teach, approved courses for my school with the State of New York!

Forum: ASK GEORGE WELLS, CMI, CFI, , BESTINSPECTORS.NET

Appraiser Licensing and Continuing Ed

nyprofessional — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:34:15 GMT

www.merrellinstitute.com Go to Real Estate Appraisal....check us out!

Forum: Appraisal Licensing in NYS

HOME INSPECTION CE IN NYS

nyprofessional — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:33:18 GMT

www.merrellinstitute.com Go to Home Inspection....check us out!

Forum: Home Inspection Licensing

Success Takes Hard Work...Are you Up For The Challenge?

nyprofessional — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:31:29 GMT

Many people want to become a Success. It takes a special person to work their buns off to make it happen. And even with hard work, there is no guarantee that success will atually occur. The most successful people in America have aditted to failure 3 to 4 times before their energies paid off. Are you ready to make it happen? Ready for a Career in which you must work hard to even be considered successful. No guarantees, but hard work may pay off for you.

www.MarketingUniversityUSA.com

www.SuccessfulMarketingUniversity.com

check these web sites out...today! or tomorrow!

Forum: ASK BILL MERRELL, Ph.D., CMI, CFI, CFA,

Our Next Online cass will begin here in 2 weeks

nyprofessional — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:25:51 GMT

If you wish to participate and receive an e-mail invitation, and an e-mail certificate at the conclusion of the online event, simply, list the following here:

Name-as you wish it to appear on your certificate
e-mail

We will keep it to a 1-2 hour presentation, and promise to make it informative and of benefit to those in the industry. Thank you for making our efforts a success!

Forum: New On-Line Meetings in 2008 will be hosted here!

Your Software Special

nyprofessional — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:00:22 GMT

George Wells:

Thank you for making your software available at a discount for those who pop in over the next several days. I am sure you can give them more information and I on your product.

www.bestinspectors.net George Wells- Thanks for all your support and help- I am sure than fellow Home Inspectors will be very happy!

All the best!

Bill

Forum: ASK GEORGE WELLS, CMI, CFI, , BESTINSPECTORS.NET

Join the North American Association Network

nyprofessional — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:09:18 GMT

www.northamericanassociationnetwork.com

The First Year Price to Join is $ 195.00. As a Graduate from the Merrell Institute, your first year fee is $ 55.00. You can also become a member via www.bestinspectors.net Call them for their special rate.

Forum: North American Association Network

NYS Home Inspector Education starting March 2008

nyprofessional — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:13:40 GMT

www.merrellinstitute.com
Starting March 2008- Discounts for the 140 hour program
call 631-563-7720 for a free brochure

Forum: Professional Education

NYS Appraisal Education is starting March 2008

nyprofessional — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:12:09 GMT

www.merrellinstitute.com

Package discounts for the 150 hour program or
call 631-563-7720 for a free brochure

Forum: Professional Education

North American Association Network

nyprofessional — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:42:51 GMT

www.northamericanassociationnetwork.com

Each new members receives a membership badge- see it here!

Forum: National Associations

Free Software Updated 2008

nyprofessional — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:37:44 GMT

Free Office Suites

Open OfficeComplete professional freeware office suite, with professional word processor, spreadsheet, etc. (50 - 70 MB). Versions available for Linux, Windows, Solaris and Max OS X.

Portable Open OfficeA fully functional edition of OpenOffice.org optimized for use on an external USB drive. More specifically, you can connect the USB drive to another computer (which does not have Open Office installed), and run it directly from the USB drive without needing to install Open Office on that computer.

Siag OfficeFree office suite for X-Windows (Unix): contains a spreadsheet, a word processor and an animation program.

KOfficeOffice suite for KDE (K Desktop Environment, Linux). Includes KSpread, KPresenter, KChart, KImage, KIllustrator, KFormula and KWord.

Low-cost Office Suites

602 PRO PC SuiteLow-cost office suite using the same document formats (.DOC and .XLS) as Microsoft Office. It is compatible with MS Office, has the same look and feel, and costs much less (only $ 39.95).

Easy OfficeComplete Office Suite of programs (word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation, drawing, contact manager, accounting etc). All Microsoft compatable except the spreadsheet. Free Desktop Publishing

Page PLUSFree desktop publishing and print program for Windows created by Serif Software. Useful when you want to create Ads, Brochures, Flyers, Forms, Newsletters, Handouts, Posters, Pricelists, Reports, Invitations, Calendars, Greeting cards, etc.

ScribusOpen Source Desktop Publishing program for Linux, MAC OS and Windows.

Free Templates

WorldLabel.comtemplatesAddress label templates, Avery label templates, Neato, Stomper and Memorex CD label templates, mailing label templates, shipping label templates, round label templates, audio cassette label templates, diskette label templates, VHS and cassette label templates.

All available for free, and in various formats: PDF, MS Word, etc.

Fonts

1001 Free FontsFree fonts for download.

Absolute Fonts Archive6800+ free true type fonts.

dafont.comMany free fonts for download. A sample of each font can be previewed online.

Dingbat pagesFreeware and shareware dingbat fonts.

Download Free FontsDownload Free Fonts - Download thousands of free true type fonts for windows and mac.

DynaFontsCollection of high-quality simplified and traditional Chinese unicode fonts. Non-free.

Font Gardens

Dingbat ArchiveDingbat fonts ordered by category.

FontcoFont search engine for freeware and shareware fonts.

FontmagicFree fonts archive, over 5000 freeware and shareware fonts. All fonts are in True Type format.

Fonts Search EngineSearch and download over 10000 Postcript and TrueType fonts for Windows and MAC.

Fonts.comLots of quality fonts, non-free.

FreewareFonts.comList of free-font sites.

Microsoft TypographyTrueType and Open Type font specification including Apple Advanced Typography specs.

Monotype Imaging FontsCollections of high-quality multilingual fonts. Non-free.

SimplytheBest FontsFonts ordered by alphabet and category.

TopFreeFonts.comList of free-font sites.

Unicode FontsA listing of unicode fonts (True Type and Open Type).

UrbanFonts.comThousands of categorized fonts and dingbats.

Vietnamese FontsFree Vietnamese Unicode Fonts

Wanted FontsFree font downloads organized into categories (Asian, Dingbats, Gothic, Script, Stencil and more) that are previewable before download. Free Presentation Programs

TeeChart OfficeFree charting and plotting tool with hundreds of charting styles and multiple configuration parameters. Includes importing data and exporting charts to several formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF...). Versions available for Linux and Windows. Freeware, open source, GPL.

Powerbullet PresenterFree program for creating Flash presentations, including: splash screens, slideshows, self-running shows, and multi-page presentations that are commonly used in electronic sales brochures and catalogues. Your presentations can be exported as an HTML page with an embedded SWF (Flash) file or as an executeable file which you can run on any Windows PC. Free PIMs/Databases

TreePadPersonal Information Manager, Database and Word Processor. Download TreePad and enjoy better access, organization and control over all your data, notes, bills, projects, clients, addresses, letters, speeches, research, collections, classroom notes, Web pages, links, bibliographic listings, and whatever else your creativity enables you to entrust TreePad with, for good organization, easy access, and safe storage.

Despite all its features and power, TreePad is as easy to use as the Windows explorer and will fit (including data) on one floppy!

Freeware, Shareware, Linux and Windows versions are available on http://www.treepad.com.

Created by Freebyte. Custom AddressbookFully customizable addressbook program for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Freeware and shareware versions available. Custom Addressbook is an easy to use, small, and extremely flexible Address Management program for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. Another advantage of its small size, is that the program and its database file can run directly from a floppy disk. Some additional features: password protection, minimize to tray, data encryption, data compression, import, search, backup, non-western fonts, etc.

Freeware and shareware versions are available. Created by Freebyte. Free Virtual OfficesFree virtual office services can provide you with many of the tools useful for running a small (virtual) company. E.g. you can get online (personal or shared) phone, fax, email, address management applications for free; free project management tools, document management tools and groupware applications (like news, forums, email).

Besides, all these programs run in your Internet browser, so you don't need to install any software. Another nice thing is, that you can access these tools from any place, and at any moment, as long as you have access to an Internet browser. ContactOfficePersonal and/or shared office tools, such as calendar, addressbook, documents, notes, tasks, forums, meetings, bookmarks, webmail, etc. Import your contacts from Outlook. Synchronisation with Palm Pilot, Outlook, Windows CE, or Lotus Organizer. Receive your agenda by SMS on a daily basis. Send SMS messages straight out of your addressbook. FreeOffice.deGerman language free online organizer: route planner, address, calendar and email management, WAP, reminders through SMS and email.

Free Fax-ServicesTPC FAXSend faxes for free by just filling in an online form or by sending email.OurFaxSend faxes directly by email or by filling in an online form. Free advertisement-supported serviceeFax FreeReceive faxes for free by email.

Internet Fax

Service ProvidersA large listing of non-free and free internet fax service providers.

Free Finance & Accounting SoftwareAceMoney LiteFreeware personal finance manager.

Can help you to organize your personal finances. Also suitable for small-business accounting.

Aqura LiteFinancial accounting program. The 'lite' version is freeware.

Easy Cash ManagerVery easy to use freeware book-keeping program.

GnuCashFreeware, open-source program to manage your personal finances. GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. Runs on: Mac OSX, GNU/Linux, *BSD, and the traditional Unixes: Solaris, AIX.

GrisbiFreeware open-source personal accounting program for Linux and Windows.

Lazy LedgerFreeware, open-source accounting system made in Java. Runs on any computer (Windows, Linux, MAC, etc.) which has a Java Virtual Machine installed. This accounting program is designed for people who have experience in bookkeeping.

LedgerFree general ledger and cashbook program for windows.

MiserFree accounting program running on DOS/Win3/Win95/Win98. You don't need to be an accountant to use this program! Contains the following modules: debtors, creditors, cash Book, stock, ledger & sales analysis, manufacturing.

MonexPersonal finance manager based on double entry bookkeeping principles. Supports download of financial data (exchange rates, stock quotes ...). Download of online available data is intended for a Slovenian audience, but can be customized.

OneStep AccountingFree accounting program for Windows, especially designed for small and medium sized businesses. It includes: general ledger, invoicing, bill paying, and inventory tracking. The Standard Edition is freeware.

Open Source AccountingVarious open source accounting programs, pojects and links.

SQL-LedgerFr

eeware double entry accounting Perl script. Accounting data is stored in a SQL database, and can be displayed in any Web browser.

Wings AccountingFreeware accounting program for Windows, personal use only. Free Time-scheduling Software

FETFreeware and open-source time-scheduling program for Linux and Windows. It uses a genetic algoritm for automatically generating the timetable of a school, high-school or university. Free Word Processors

AbiWordFreeware and open source word processor for Windows, Unix, GNOME, BeOS and QNX.

JarteSmall and elegant freeware Word Processor for Windows.

LedIt! Word ProcessorFree simple cross-platform, multi-lingual unicode word processor, without all the clutter and confusion of some word processors. Versions are available for Windows, Linux and MAC.

RoughDraftFreeware Word Processor for Windows, especially made for writers. Imports Word 6.0, Word 97 and HTML files, exports to HTML, RTF. Up to 100 files open at the same time, English spell check, backup to floppy.

Yeah WriteSimple fun-to-use yet powerful little word processor with many nice features. Runs on Windows.

CopywriterFreeware, basic editor, for *.txt, *.rtf, *.doc and binary files.

let us know how well each program works and it's limitations- it will be poste here!

Forum: FREE SOFTWARE with Links

Effective 1-1-08 New Regulations for Appraisers to enter the field

nyprofessional — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:23:14 GMT

The field is changing and NY has adopted new regulations- effective 1-1-08, 150 hours of education is mandatpry to enter the field- check the info out at www.merrellinstitute.com

Forum: For Appraisers

NHIE

cburchfield72 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:38:50 GMT

I have studied and studied and studied for this test took it once and failed it by 60 pts. I have studied my coursework as well as a building code book that looks like a bible and i still feel unprepared to take it again. can anyone give me advice as to what i need to study to pass this. i have just seperated from the army and would like to work for myself inspecting homes but this test is the only thing in my way.

Forum: For Home Inspectors