Code of Ethics

Northern Illinois Home Builders Association

Formed as a vehicle to promote the interests of legitimate home builders, to improve their skill and technique in all of their procedures, to advance and perfect their talents for design and beauty and in planning to ensure the best business practice, and by fair dealing, to gain and hold the confidence of the home seeking public: have subscribed to the following principles at their business guide.
 

• Members shall, at all times, persistently strive to develop and maintain within the home building industry a high appreciation of the objectives and responsibilities of home builders in fully and faithfully serving the home seeking public.
• Members shall at all times, through diligent work and research on new materials and methods, strive to develop and improve the efficiency of the home building process and produce better values for the benefit of the home builder.
• Members shall faithfully and honestly follow all specifications for all specifications for materials and the processing of the same and shall strive to produce, in all cases structures of honest, substantial and lasting construction.
• Members shall generously cooperate by sharing the benefits of knowledge and experience with fellow members to promote and improve general efficiency.
• Members shall deal fairly and honestly with the suppliers of building materials and constituents, acknowledging to all the right to a fair and equitable profit for services and goods finished.
• Members shall promote a complete mutual understanding with labor and encourage a long-rang view of mutual problems that will best ensure the benefit of the home seeker.
• Members shall scrupulously comply both in spirit and letter with all reasonable rules and regulations prescribed by law and governmental agencies for health, safety and progress of all communities in which they operate.
• Members shall painstakingly study and analyze all proposed and enacted City, State, and National legislation and establish a firm stand against such as appears detrimental to the social, economic or political interest of the home owners, home seekers or home builders.
• Members shall in no case engage in misrepresentation, false promises, subterfuge, misappropriation of funds or payments or any other conduct that constitutes dishonest dealing with employees, dealers, home seekers or costumers.
• Members shall not perform or cause to be performed, any act which would tend to reflect on, bring into disrepute the home building industry or any part or member thereof.
• Members shall, in their relations, exhibit friendliness, helpfulness and cooperation with fellow members, to the end that the Association shall be amalgamated into a resistless force in the promotion and accomplishment of its highest objective to be champions of the home seeker.