Pricing
One price. Everything.
No tiers, no subscription, no coaching upsell you discover at checkout. You are studying for one exam, so there is one product.
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 a course that is still being written. Here is every piece of it that is not finished, and the month it lands.
- Practice Exam 1, 200 questions
- December 2026
- All 115 lessons, written and reviewed0 of 115 readable now
- January 2027
- Practice Exam 2, 200 questions
- February 2027
- Practice Exam 3, 200 questions
- March 2027
- Practice Exam 4, 200 questions
- April 2027
- Practice Exam 5, 200 questions
- May 2027
- A video for every lessonnone recorded yet
- May 2027
If one of these dates is going to be missed, everyone who bought hears it by email before the date passes.
Your 12 months start the day the last lesson is finished, not the day you pay. Until then your access is open and nothing is counting down.
- 115 lessons, every one mapped to an outline task
- A video for every lesson
- About 1,000 bank questions with rationales
- A quiz on every lesson, unlimited attempts
- Five full-length practice exams, 200 questions each
- The 95 percent mastery exam, graded on the server
- The 200-question, 4-hour simulator
- Score breakdowns by domain and task
The course is in production. The lesson map on what's inside shows exactly what exists today. It opens at $295.
We are not collecting addresses yet. Nothing is being kept, which is the point.
What the price includes
- Every future lesson added during your access term
- Every correction and update to the bank
- Email support from Russ
What it does not include
- State-approved education hours. None. Zero.
- Continuing education credit
- Your $225 exam fee
- Field training or ride-alongs
Why $295
The honest math.
A second attempt costs $225 and 30 days you cannot work under a license you do not have yet. If this course moves your odds at all, it pays for itself the first time you do not have to book another seat.
It is priced below the exam prep products sold by the big schools, and far below anything that carries state-approved hours, because it does not carry state-approved hours. You are paying for the question bank and the coverage work behind it, and nothing else is baked into the number.
There is no discount code, no countdown timer, and no fake original price with a line through it. If the price changes, it changes for everyone on the same day.
Before you buy
Is the course finished?
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.
Is this a licensing course? Will it count toward my required hours?
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.
I already finished a pre-licensing course. Why would I pay for this too?
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.
I already failed once. Is there anything different here?
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.
Where do the questions come from?
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.
Does it cover the whole exam or just the systems?
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.
How much time does it take?
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.
What is the guarantee, exactly?
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.
Is this affiliated with EBPHI or the NHIE?
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.
Who teaches it?
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.
What if my state has its own exam too?
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.