My Newsletter went out yesterday explaining NSPIRE’s new scoring system which you can read here: Newsletter Archive and Sign Up I list some concerns I have about the new scoring system which you may agree with. Whether you have positive or negative feedback – you should absolutely reach out to HUD with your comments.
Today, HUD posted the scoring notice on the Federal Register for public comment/feedback.
FEEDBACK ON NSPIRE’S SCORING NOTICE!
How Do I Submit Feedback?
- HUD prefers feedback electronically!
This link will take you to regulations.gov and the direct link:
NSPIRE Proposed Scoring Notice
- If you cannot submit your feedback electronically, you can do so by mail…but they have to be postmarked by April 15th:Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel, Dept of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW, Room 10276
Washington, DC 20410-0500
The full document can be read on the link I provided from regulations.gov or can be read in the Federal Register itself: Federal Register NSPIRE Scoring Notice
- Removing Severity and Criticality Levels
- Reducing the Number of Inspectable Areas from 5 to 3
- Removing Item and Area-Based Limits and Scoring Weight Distribution Along With Point Caps
- Inspectable Area: under REAC’s UPCS point structure, Site, Exterior and Common Areas were approximately 15 points, Systems 20 points and Units 35 points depending on how many N/A’s the inspector records and how many buildings/units you have
- Inspectable Item: I don’t like HUD’s example of a kitchen because it doesn’t make sense. A better example would be Egresses, Exposed Wires, HVAC system, Bathroom/Kitchen sink/tub hardware are 75% of the total unit points.
- Buildings: The more buildings you have…the lower the points on individual deficiencies. Like a painted sprinkler head in 1 building 100 units is 10 points…but if you have 10 buildings and only 1 building has a painted sprinkler head, that would result in approximately 2 points.
- Units: If we inspect 20 units under REAC’s UPCS, each units is worth approximately 2 points – so if you have a BAD unit where we record 20 Level 3 deficiencies, the most you can lose is the 2 points (what the units is worth)
- Point Caps: THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT for 2 reasons: Under UPCS, you cannot lose more than 7.5 points for a single deficiency on Site, no more than 10 points for a single deficiency under Exterior, Systems or Common Areas and Units have a 5 point cap. NSPIRE does NOT have score caps. Secondly, REAC has a rule:
- Same Deficiency + Same Inspectable Area = Highest Level Scores ONCE (no matter how many times it’s recorded)
So if Unit 102 has 5 door hardware deficiencies…only the Level 3 on the first door scores – the rest don’t (the other 4 doors are “observations”
Under NSPIRE, EACH OF THE 5 DOOR HARDWARE DEFECTS WILL BE SCORED - Normalization: The smaller the property you have…the higher everything would score. Properties with 1 building 10 units could not have many deficiencies or they would fail.
Remember, your feedback is instrumental in shaping the future of NSPIRE inspections and its impact to your properties!
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