In the State of Georgia, unlike many other states, home inspectors are not licensed. Real estate appraisers, on the other hand, are either registered, licensed and/or certified. Each real estate appraiser must complete a 2,000 hour apprenticeship program under the direct supervision of a certified appraiser. The individual who practices home inspection in the State of Georgia has hopefully taken a home inspection course, which is approximately 40-hours in length. A portion of the 40-hour in-class home inspection course may allow the instructor and his/her students to actually do a complete home inspection in the field. The on-site home inspection provides for a personal interactive environment between the students and the instructor during the home inspection process and helps to motivate each student to query the instructor and ask questions that probably could not have been answered while in-class. I think we would all agree, that a student who has an opportunity to actually visit the subject property and inspect both the home and the site will have a great advantage and will do a more thorough job when he or she gets into the home inspection business. There is no substitute for on-the-site training! On-line or correspondence courses are of little or no help to those who want to be real estate ppraisers and/or home inspectors.