Questions, answered straight.

No, and the price says so. No lesson is readable yet. 85 bank questions are written and reviewed, and the first lesson is drafted and waiting on review. You are buying it while it is being written, which is why every piece that is not done yet carries a month on the pricing page.

Two things protect you. Your 12 months of access start the day the last lesson is finished, not the day you pay, so nothing counts down while you wait. And if a date is going to be missed, everyone who bought hears it by email before the date passes.

No, and it is not trying to be. This course does not carry state approval, does not award education hours, and does not substitute for a pre-licensing program. If your state requires classroom hours, you still need an approved school for those.

That is a deliberate choice. Approved schools are built to satisfy an hour requirement. This is built to get you over a 500 scaled score on one specific exam.

Because they are two different jobs. Your school taught you to inspect a house, and it had to cover a curriculum a state agency approved. The NHIE tests a published content outline against a published manual, with a fixed number of questions per topic.

Most people who fail did not fail because they do not know houses. They failed because they spent their study time in the wrong proportions, never practiced at four-hour length, and had never seen the way the questions are worded.

The question bank. 85 items are written and reviewed today and the bank is being built toward about a thousand, all from the same manual the exam references, tagged to the official outline. Every item carries a written explanation of why the answer is the answer and why the other three are close but wrong.

Reading a chapter again is what most people do on a second attempt, and it is the least effective thing available. Answering questions and reading the reasoning is the thing that moves a score.

Every lesson starts by extracting every testable fact out of the source material into a ledger. The lesson is written from the ledger, then audited against it. Questions are written from the same ledger and carry the page they were verified against.

Questions are written in original wording. They are not copied out of the manual, and they are not recalled exam questions. Nobody who sells you recalled NHIE questions is doing it legally.

The whole outline, and the 115 lessons that cover it are still being written. That matters more than it sounds. Analysis and Reporting is 20 percent of the exam and Professional Responsibilities is another 10 percent, which means almost a third of your score has nothing to do with a furnace. Study plans routinely underweight both.

Plan on six to eight weeks at five hours a week if you are preparing from scratch, or two to three weeks of concentrated drilling if you have already sat the exam once and are closing gaps.

You control the pace. There are no live sessions and no deadlines.

If you complete the course, pass every lesson quiz, clear the mastery exam at 95 percent, then sit the NHIE within 60 days and fail, you get the course fee back. The full written terms are on the guarantee page, including what it does not cover.

It does not refund your exam fee, and it is not a promise that you will pass. It is a promise about what happens if you do everything and it still does not work.

Nobody can complete a course that is not finished, so the guarantee waits with you. While the course is unfinished, asking is enough. Your money comes back, and nobody has to argue about whether a date slipped.

No. EBPHI writes and owns the National Home Inspector Examination and the NHIE mark. This is independent preparation material. Nothing here is endorsed by, sponsored by, or sourced from EBPHI's own item bank.

Russ Motyko, a Certified Master Inspector who runs an inspection company in the Portland and Vancouver area and has taught the classroom portion of Washington's Fundamentals of Home Inspection course. He has walked a hundred-plus new inspectors through this exact wall.

This covers the national exam only. Several states add a state-specific portion on their own rules and statutes. Those are short, state-published, and not what people fail.