Patrick Coulter is the owner and inspector of Cross County Inspection Services, LLC. I am a licensed Home Inspector through the Maryland Commission of Real Estate Appraiser's and Home Inspectors. Over the past twelve years I have performed over 2,100 inspections on residential and commercial properties and completed over 350 hours of extensive technical training in state approved home inspection programs and have passed the National Home Inspector's Examination. I am a certified member of the InterNational Association of Certified Home Inspectors ("InterNACHI"), which requires that I have met NACHI's strict membership requirements that are designed to ensure that their members provide professional, detailed, ethical and honest services to their clients (see below). I am an MDE Accredited Lead Inspector, hold a Maryland WDI Business Consultant's license for performing "termite" inspections, am a certified Mold Inspector/Testor, and I am certified to perform radon meaurements by NEHA-NRPP.
Hands-on construction experience includes over twenty years of serving as a site manager and laborer on numerous family operated new-construction residential building projects and performing residential renovations on existing homes.
Patrick Coulter, Owner/Inspector :
* Marland Home Inspector's License, # 30123.
* Maryland WDI Business Consultant's License, #29233.
* Certified member of the National Enviromental Health Association-National Radon Proficiency Program, # 104519 RT.
* MDE Accredited Visual Lead Inspector, # 48400.
* IAC2 Certified Mold Inspector & Tester.
* Member of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors.
* Member of Enviromental Solutions Association.
As a Certifed InterNACHI inspector, I also have maintained the following membership requirements :
- Have to pass InterNACHI's Inspector Examination every year with a score of 80 or better.
- Have to complete InterNACHI's Ethics Obstacle Course.
- Have to take InterNACHI's Standards of Practice Quiz (This open book Standards of Practice quiz is open and free to all).
- Have to adhere to InterNACHI's Standards of Practice.
- Have to abide by InterNACHI's Code of Ethics.
- Have to continue learning (24 hours/year) as per InterNACHI's Continuing Education Policy.
- Have to maintain a member online Continuing Education Log as per InterNACHI's Continuing Education Policy.
- Have to (within 30 days after joining) complete InterNACHI's comprehensive Residential Standards of Practice course.
- Have to (before or within 30 days after joining) complete InterNACHI's Structural course .
- Have to (within 45 days after joining) complete InterNACHI's comprehensive Plumbing course including all the quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within 45 days after joining) complete InterNACHI's comprehensive Electrical course including all the quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (before or within 45 days of joining) complete InterNACHI's comprehensive Safe Practices course including all the quizzes within.
- Have to (within 60 days after joining) complete InterNACHI's comprehensive Roofing course including all the quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within 60 days after joining) complete InterNACHI's comprehensive Wood Destroying Organism course including all the quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within 60 days after joining) complete InterNACHI's 25 Standards Every Inspector Should Know course and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within first 3 months after joining) complete InterNACHI's comprehensive Moisture Intrusion Inspection course including all the quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within first 6 months after joining) complete InterNACHI's Vermiculite Insulation mini-course including all the quizzes within.
- Have to (within first 6 months after joining) complete InterNACHI's Polybutylene Plumbing mini-course including all the quizzes within.
- Have to (within first 6 months after joining) complete InterNACHI's Water Heater TPR Valve Discharge Piping mini-course including all the quizzes within.
- Have to (within first 6 months after joining) complete InterNACHI's Emergency Exit mini-course including all the quizzes within.
- Have to re-take and pass InterNACHI's Online Inspector Examination again, every year .
- Have to (before or within 2 years after joining) complete at least 8 hours of advanced or beyond Standards of Practice coursework (reasonable exceptions apply).
- Have to (within 3 years after joining) complete InterNACHI's Mold Inspection course including all quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within 3 years after joining) complete InterNACHI's Radon Measurement Service Provider course including all quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within 3 years after joining) complete InterNACHI's Commercial Inspection course including all quizzes within and pass its final exam.
- Have to (within 3 years after joining) complete InterNACHI's Inspecting Foundation Walls and Piers course including all quizzes and pass its final exam.
- Have to attend at least one chapter meetings or educational seminars every two years (reasonable exceptions apply).
