Want to inspect homes for a living in Alaska? Here's the deal. The state makes you pass four exams, carry a $5,000 bond, get an Alaska Business License, and pay $350 to register. There's no required coursework. Alaska puts everything on the exams instead: building, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical, each one its own test, each one packed with code questions written to weed out the unprepared. Walk in cold and you're gambling four exam fees and months of your life on it. The candidates who pass the first time almost always trained first. One course, all four exams covered, and you come out the other side with an AHIT certificate that agents in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and the Mat-Su Valley recognize. In a market where most inspectors can't show any formal training, that's your edge before you've done a single inspection.