Threatened by the construction party and thanked by the owners
The "two heavens of ice and fire" for professional home inspectors
new job online
On October 27, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced to the public the newly revised "People's Republic of China Occupational Classification Code (2022 Edition)", and home inspectors were officially included as one of the new occupations.
"The owner feels that there is a problem, but he doesn't know where the problem is." Ma Weiyong, a Beijing house inspector of Tubatu, told Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter.
The strong wires of the water separator are exposed, the boiler is not pressure-maintained, the cover of the strong electric box is missing screws, the stone paving in the dining room is uneven, and the door of the entrance cabinet is not closed tightly... How many thunder points can a newly delivered house have?
According to multiple home inspection reports, the answer may be "hundreds."
Take the bee home inspection report as an example. A total of 355 problems were detected in a hardcover new house with a construction area of 192 square meters, including 131 major problems, 133 minor problems, and 91 minor problems.
In the needs of owners to eliminate hidden dangers in the delivery of new homes, a new profession-home inspector came into being.
On October 27, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced to the public the newly revised "People's Republic of China Occupational Classification Code (2022 Edition)" (hereinafter referred to as "Occupational Classification Code"), and home inspectors were officially included as one of the new occupations .
It is a good thing to help owners eliminate hidden dangers in their new homes, but for developers, a home inspector is not a pleasing profession.
A number of home inspectors and related practitioners told reporters that in their past work experience, due to the lack of basic knowledge and understanding of the home inspector profession by developers and others, verbal and violent coercion often appeared.
Then, after entering the national and social management system, will the professional environment of home inspectors be improved?
How does a home inspector work?
worry
Sometimes facing pressure from developers and construction parties
Self-reported "A home inspector was beaten because of the home inspection"
Li Bolin is the CEO of Bee Artisan Home Inspection and one of the first batch of home inspectors in my country to provide home inspection services.
A few years ago, Li Bolin, who was helping the owner to look at the decoration of the new real estate, received an entrustment from a friend to help look at the newly handed over house.
"It's not that they haven't asked someone to inspect the house, but they still don't know anything about the condition of the house after the inspection, so they found me. In this way, I helped inspect the first house." Li Bolin recalled.
While inspecting, Li Bolin explained to his friends why the housing problem was caused and what impact it would have in the future. After returning home, he wrote a report, marking each problem compared with the national standard.
My friends were very happy after reading it and said it was easy to understand.
One by one, one by one, the people who asked Li Bolin to help with the house inspection one by one, he started to form his own team, and violent incidents happened one after another.
Once, while he was checking the "empty drum" at the owner's house, a strange man in a black leather jacket suddenly appeared, snatched his empty drumstick, and threw it out.
The hollowing in the quality of the house generally refers to the hollowing phenomenon that occurs between the floor, wall, ceiling decoration layer and the structural layer of the house due to weak bonding and bonding, commonly known as "two-layer skin".
"The strange man asked me who I was loudly. When he learned that it was a home inspector, he sweared at me and told me to leave the community. I ran out and called the owner. The owner said he didn't know this person. Wait for me to go back. , the 'problem signs' pasted on the tiles were ripped off." Li Bolin recalled.
"In the past two years, the real estate industry didn't understand the work of home inspection, and there were many violent incidents." Li Bolin said that one of his home inspectors was even beaten to a second-degree minor injury by the construction party.
"Our master inspected that the wall was hollow, and the construction party wanted to give him a red envelope to tell him not to mention it. The house inspector refused the red envelope and told the owner of all the problems in the house. As a result, when the master went downstairs, he was punished. They beat up."
Ma Weiyong, a Beijing home inspector from Tubatu, calls home inspectors a "high-risk occupation."
"Developers will be more wary of home inspectors with big institutional platforms. Other retail investors may be driven away before they reach the next one after entering this one."
happiness
Home inspector inspections force developers and construction parties to make adjustments
The owner writes a thank you letter and writes a small composition of praise
In contrast to some developers and construction parties who don't want to see them, use language or even violent threats, what home inspectors usually get from the owners is "thank you".
After the home inspector was beaten and injured, the client wrote a thank you letter to Li Bolin's team.
"This kind of thank you letter is relatively formal, and there are thousands of long essays and long comments on the platform, which are equivalent to thank you letters for us." Li Bolin said.
"More than 400 problems were found, and each problem was explained clearly, which is convenient for us to argue with the developers." A home owner who experienced the house inspection service wrote such a comment on the platform.
It is an important part of ensuring the smooth progress of the delivery that the owner has a basis for rights protection.
Yan Yuejin, Research Director of the Think Tank Center of E-House Research Institute, once said in an interview that the new profession "house inspector" will help "guaranteed delivery of buildings".
On July 28 this year, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held a meeting and pointed out that it is necessary to stabilize the real estate market and insist on the positioning that houses are for living in, not for speculation... compacting the responsibility of local governments, ensuring the delivery of buildings, and stabilizing people's livelihood.
A senior real estate practitioner told reporters that "guaranteed delivery" is a key word in the real estate industry in 2022. Many real estate companies use "delivery rate" as a publicity point for their projects. The high-quality development of the real estate industry directly focuses on actual delivery.
As the only new occupation in the real estate field, the development and growth of the team of home inspectors will make a positive contribution to the "guaranteed delivery of buildings" and "guaranteed delivery".
Home inspectors included in the "Occupational Classification Code"
Call for industry norms and look forward to income growth
On October 27, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced the newly revised "Occupational Classification Code" to the public, and "home inspector" was officially included as one of the new occupations.
An occupation is officially included in the Occupational Classification Ceremony, which means that it is officially included in the national and social management system.
Li Bolin said that rationalization and legalization are a great impetus to the profession of home inspectors. "(Before) our service to customers was subject to the lack of relevant qualifications recognized by the state and whether the reports we issued had legal significance."
Almost every home inspector interviewed expressed hope that the industry will be standardized and income will increase.
There is no unified charging standard for home inspection services, and the prices on Meituan and Xianyu platforms are mostly 200-500 yuan per household.
Ma Weiyong told reporters that the current market price is basically 300-500 yuan per household, which is calculated according to the actual area.
"But (the home inspector) only costs more than 100 yuan per household, four or five households a day. For the quality inspection, it is still a little bit lower."
"Before, the entire home inspection industry was chaotic, and some people could get on the job after two or three days of training. After entering the "Occupational Classification Ceremony", we can do professional skill certification. In this way, not only the industry threshold and the quality of employees have been improved, but also Increase the basic income of employees." Li Bolin said.
Li Bolin designed a self-developed training system for his company. All employees must pass 42 exams before taking up the job.
"We have developed an online test system like a driving school, and there is nearly two months of non-productive training before taking up the job. Pass all 42 tests, memorize all relevant national standards, and work after the training. "
"Afterwards, such standardized training may become the norm in this industry." The above-mentioned senior real estate practitioner told reporters.
The 18-year-old Xiaolu (pseudonym) is studying engineering quality inspection. During his internship, he heard about the profession of "home inspector" from the owner, and began to contact home inspection and write reports.
Regarding the income of the home inspector, Xiaolu said that "it is directly proportional to his own contribution."
Regarding whether to pursue this career in the future, Xiaolu said that he is not sure, but he will not give up this skill.
On September 14, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development stated at a series of press conferences on the theme of "China's This Decade" that in the past 10 years, the scale of housing supply has continued to increase, and the cumulative sales area of commercial housing has reached 13.234 billion square meters, which is 2.2 times that of the previous decade. .
In the context of the continuous increase in new housing, "home inspectors" may become an important force in the delivery process.
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