Has there been any further discussion or decisions made about membership to this forum?
Granted I am realitively new to this forum, but have spent many hours on here learning. Today I have a truck ready for business and have done a few jobs as a result of this forum. I make a point to donate every month, which is a big savings compared to any trade school cost.

I went back over the pages of members here and it is clear that a few are carring the many. Now I can only base that on posts, but it is a fair indicator. Also, when conducting different searches RCIA is rated high, which indicates as the word gets out about roof cleaning, there will be more visits by the public at large.

My point. It is honorable to want to help others, but at what point does a profession as this start to have controls and marketplace safe guards? I have no problem with competition.  I totally agree with the certification process. In my view this forum, as it stands, opens the door for any hack to just come in read a few posts, buy a set up, and call themselves a professional roof cleaner. I think you can see where I am going with this.

I have the benefit of having a very large marketplace with no competition I am aware of. I also have the task, at great expense, to have to educate this marketplace. Granted anyone can set up shop and ride my coat tails. Hopefully someone else will become RCIA certified in my area and we can work together to develop our profession and still be competitive.

I will tell you I am the last person who likes any form of regulation or restrictions placed on what I can or cannot do. On the other hand roof cleaning is a profession and at present RCIA is the governing body. As it stands RCIA is based on a honor system and for the most part, from what I see so far, is working fairly well. On the otherside, there is alot of room for abuse. Maybe thats just the way it is given the structure.

I refer anyone that visits my web site to RICA as the authority on roof cleaning. Given the present sturcture of the forum and some of the content, it that going to be a positive or negative experience for them?

Should there be some consideration on how RCIA is to be structured going forward e.g. certification area, newbie area, public area, vendor area. Other than in the Shade, everything is rolled into one.

Lastly, membership should there be a paid membership section and a non paid membership section?

Just thinking out loud brothers.