Licenses and credentials
- - Home-inspection professional development
- - Voluntary industry certifications
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Design, Construction & Environment
California statewide coverage directory
California Home Inspectors: qualification, exams, and education
California standards of practice, ethics, reporting, defect recognition, and professional-development pathways for home inspectors.
Review the learning pathwaysRegulated credentials
Who this California guide covers
What 101PD may provide
- - California statutory standards and duty-of-care education
- - Inspection reporting and consumer-protection training
- - Preparation for voluntary third-party certifications
Provider qualification route
How 101PD can become authorized
Offer this pathway as professional development or clearly named third-party certification preparation. California regulates conduct by statute but does not issue a general statewide home-inspector license.
Non-substitution boundary
What online training cannot replace
101PD must not advertise a California home-inspector license, state approval, engineering or contracting authority, or a voluntary credential it is not authorized to award.
Possible learning formats
California-focused learning options
Professional development
California Home Inspection Standards
This is a researched pathway, not a promise that 101PD currently offers this course. Any future product page must show its exact price, enrollment status, and credit eligibility.
Research guide only
Professional development
Home Inspection Reporting and Ethics
This is a researched pathway, not a promise that 101PD currently offers this course. Any future product page must show its exact price, enrollment status, and credit eligibility.
Research guide only
Official sources
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The regulator controls eligibility, fees, applications, examinations, and credit. These are the sources used for this page.
Sources checked July 22, 2026. Confirm current regulator requirements before acting.