INSPECTING THE INSPECTOR
Georgia has no requirements for home inspector credentials. All you need is a business card, phone number, an on line mail order home inspector credential, or 2 day “quickie training”, and you are a home inspector in Georgia. There’s an old saying that “you can’t talk the talk unless you have walked the walk”. This is very true of the inspection business. Very few inspectors have been in the construction business.

North Georgia Home Inspections and its inspectors did not previously sell telephones, do home repair work on the side, or retire from some other profession. Chuck Handte is a professional home inspector meriting the following credentials:

• Over 40 years experience in North Georgia as a real estate developer and residential contractor. He understands residential and commercial construction in the mountains.
  GEORGIA RESIDENTIAL GENERAL CONTRACTOR, LICENSE NUMBER RBQA OO3090
• Professional Inspection Training at the National Institute of Building Inspectors in Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1992.
• Proud member of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI org) with continuing education and recertification since 1998. ASHI was established in 1976 and is the “gold standard” in the inspection business in North America. ASHI is the most respected inspection company with its ASHI Standards for Home Inspection Practice and Procedure, which have been adopted by most states that have licensing requirements.
  ASHI CERTIFIED INSPECTOR, LICENSE NUMBER 201454
• Code Official with the International Code Council with continuing education and recertification since 1998. The ICC is the building code standard and authority for most of the United States. He does residential and light commercial code inspections, and building inspections. He can issue a Certificate of Occupancy in several counties in North Georgia, where the local county inspection personnel do not issue these.
  RESIDENTIAL/COMBINATION LICENSE NUMBER 5188431