maybe an interest for someone Carson Dunlop Partners with North Carolina State University to Offer Home Inspection Training Certification - Yahoo! News
There are quite a few degreeinfo members that are looking for degrees that can help them to make some extra money on the side. I think that home inspection certification can pay off more than an PhD if your intention is just to be able to make some money on the side. I believe home inspections pay from 500 to 1000 dlls and take few hours to make, of course when the real estate market is low there is not much demand for home inspection but still worth looking at.