Addison, Michigan
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Services
For buyers, sellers, and homeowners keeping an eye on the place they already own. On new construction we also do pre-drywall inspections and 11-month builder’s warranty inspections. Our certified inspectors walk every major system in your Addison home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
Following the InterNACHI Standards of Practice:
Included free with every home buyer inspection— and none of them require us to sell your information.
SatisfactionIf you are unhappy with your inspector on the day of the inspection, before you have seen your report, tell us and we will make it right — or you owe us nothing.
30-Day WarrantyA free 30-day Guard home warranty trial, negotiated for you with no obligation. Activate it whenever you are ready.
$100 OffThe buyer’s protection guarantee: if the first home we inspect for you does not make it to the closing table, for any reason, we take $100 off any further home buyer inspection within 30 days of the original.
Optional services at an additional cost — not part of a standard inspection. Tap one to see what it covers.
A camera down the main sewer line, watching its condition from the inside — roots, breaks, bellies and blockages no visual inspection can find. More about sewer scope inspections
The wood-destroying organism report VA buyers are typically asked to provide, on the federal NPMA-33 form. Carried out during the same visit. More about Veterans WDO inspections
Up to five air samples sent to an accredited laboratory, added to the same appointment rather than booked as a second visit. More about mold inspection and testing
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Offices, retail, multifamily and warehouses in Addison and across Lenawee County. Know what condition a building is in before you sign — or stay ahead of problems in the one you already own. Reports in 24 to 72 hours depending on size.
Following the CCPIA commercial standards:
Commonly added to a commercial inspection at additional cost.
Commercial laterals are longer, older and carry more. A camera is the only way to see the condition of the one you are buying. More about sewer scope inspections
Air samples to an accredited laboratory, which matters most in buildings that have sat empty or had a roof or plumbing leak. More about mold inspection and testing
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Add either to an Addison home or commercial inspection, or book it on its own. We test and we never remediate, so there is nothing to sell you on the back of a result — the number you get is just the number.
Radon measured in house on a professional continuous monitor; mold samples to an accredited laboratory:
The other things worth testing while somebody is already there.
Carried out after remediation on the treated area and the areas next to it, to confirm what was found. More about mold inspection and testing
A damp basement can have several causes, and the buried sewer line is the one a visual inspection cannot check. A scope rules it in or out. More about sewer scope inspections
View a sample reportAddison housing stock
Addison has roughly 294 housing units and about 69% of them are single-family detached. Age is the most useful single fact about a house before anyone has seen it. It narrows down what is worth checking first, and it is why two places of much the same size can need quite different inspections.
If the town has a defining decade it is the years before 1940, which accounts for 118 homes, around 40% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $129,000.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. An Addison home inspector checks these things early in a home of this age and then records what is genuinely there, which is often not what the era would suggest.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Addison was built
66% of homes here run on utility gas, and 3 still heat with oil. If yours is one of them, the tank is the thing to ask about — where it is, and whether it was ever buried. Another 6 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Start with something practical that will otherwise cost you an afternoon. At the time of writing, the Village of Addison’s web address does not work. It redirects to a secure address whose certificate belongs to a different municipality altogether, so a browser shows a security warning, and past that the page returns a hosting error saying the site is not a valid client site. Search engines still list its old pages.
We mention it only because you will find those links and they will waste your time. It says nothing about how the village is run — a lapsed arrangement with a web vendor is not a statement about a community. But it does mean the online answers about a property here are not where you would expect them, and it is worth telephoning the village office directly rather than hunting for a website.
What does work, and works well, is the layer either side of the village. Addison sits across two townships — Rollin and Woodstock — and both publish real, current sites. Above them, Lenawee County holds the things counties hold.
So the first question on any Addison property is which township it is in, because that decides which office you are dealing with, and the two are not interchangeable. They keep different hours, they publish different things, and they are based in different places.
A home inspection is not a code inspection or a permit search and we do not present it as one. What we establish is what is physically there and what condition it is in, and we flag work that looks as though it was done without the benefit of a permit — which gives you the specific question to take to the right office.
Before you buy
Where the answers live
Woodstock Township publishes a zoning and ordinance administrator and a list of its inspectors, along with minutes for the township board, the planning commission, the zoning board of appeals, the Addison Fire Board and the sanitary drain. Its office keeps different hours on every day of the week — longer on Monday and Tuesday, closing at one o’clock from Wednesday to Friday — and the supervisor is available by appointment.
Rollin Township, based at Manitou Beach, takes property tax payments online and publishes a tax brochure. It also runs sewer billing, with an ACH form so a sewer payment can be charged automatically to a checking or savings account on the due date. Its hours are published per official rather than for the office as a whole, so the supervisor, clerk and treasurer each keep their own windows.
That last detail is worth planning around. If you need the clerk and the treasurer in the same week, check both sets of hours before you drive out, because they do not overlap as much as you would assume.
Above the townships, the county holds the rest. Woodstock Township links directly to the Lenawee County health department for wells and septic systems, to the county drains office, and to the county road commission for anything at the road edge.
One more verifiable detail, mentioned because it saves a click: the township’s own link to the village fire department page points at the village domain, and that link does not currently resolve either.
The housing
Addison has roughly 294 housing units with a median build year of 1954, and about 69% of them are single-family detached. That second number matters as much as the first: close to a third of the housing here is something other than a standalone house, so we establish which situation a property is actually in before anything else. What is shared, what is yours, and who is responsible for the roof above you are different questions in a building with more than one unit.
On the detached stock, a mid-1950s median puts the usual questions in play. Electrical systems are usually the accumulated work of several decades: mixed wiring types arriving in the same enclosure, ungrounded receptacles, a panel added to more than once, and an original service capacity sized for a 1954 household. We report what is there and photograph it either way.
Plumbing has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, which concentrates the interesting questions at the transitions between materials. Heating and water heating equipment will be several replacements deep. Roof coverings will be on a second or third generation, and the flashings and penetrations matter more than the covering itself.
Foundations of the period are typically block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how they were built. Where the downspouts terminate, whether there is a sump and where it discharges to, and how the ground falls away from the walls tell you more about a basement than a dry-day look at it will.
This is lake country, and Rollin Township is based at Manitou Beach, so some of the housing in this area began life as seasonal building. Where that is the case the questions shift to the conversion: insulation added later and unevenly, heating retrofitted into a structure that never had any, and plumbing routed through uninsulated spaces. Radon testing and mold inspection and testing can be added to any visit, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard are available for commercial property.
The buried line
Rollin Township runs sewer billing, which establishes that a sewer system exists on that side. It does not establish which parcels are connected to it, and we found nothing settling the position for Woodstock Township — so we are not going to tell you what any particular Addison property is served by. Confirm it in writing for the parcel.
If it turns out to be a septic system, that is specialist work arranged through the Lenawee County health department, and it answers questions no visual inspection can: whether a drainfield is failing, and the true condition of the tank. It runs to its own timetable, so it needs arranging early in a purchase rather than in the last week. A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation.
Either way the line running out from the building belongs to the owner and no visual inspection reaches inside it. On a median 1954 house that pipe is around seventy years old unless somebody has replaced it, and we will not name a material from a build year — a guess in a report is worse than no statement at all.
A sewer camera inspection records what is actually inside: roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. On a septic property it documents the building drain out to the tank — the stretch a septic evaluation does not examine, and on a lot with mature trees exactly where roots go.
It goes on the same appointment rather than a second visit, and we deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day. A buyer’s inspection covers the building; the camera covers the part nobody can see. You can read what our clients say, browse answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Addison.
Local information from Woodstock Township — officials, inspectors and minutes · Rollin Township — taxes, sewer payments and office hours · Lenawee County — health department, for wells and septic systems · Lenawee County — county drains. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Addison home inspector.
Family owned since 2009, more than 16,000 inspections completed and over 2,000 five-star reviews across Michigan. We also handle home buyer inspections, commercial building inspections, mold testing and radon testing.
We do not sell mold remediation or radon mitigation, so there is nothing to gain from a result that comes back bad. The number you get is just the number.
Radon, mold, sewer scope and wood-destroying organism inspections go on the same appointment as the home inspection rather than costing you a second morning.
Most people do, and it is the most useful hour of the whole purchase. Ask anything while we are standing in front of it.
InterNACHI and CCPIA certified, with four Certified Master Inspectors and National Home Inspector Examination passes on the team — none of which Michigan requires. The standards we inspect to are published and you can hold the work against them.
Including weekends, because inspection windows sit on closing dates and closing dates do not care what day it is.
Reviews
I recently hired Trademark for a full home inspection on a new purchase, including sewer scope and radon testing. It was a phenomenal experience from beginning to end. Our inspector, Mitch, did a fantastic job explaining all the findings, and the digital report with photos and videos was superb. Would definitely recommend without hesitation.
Salina HamiltonOak Park, MIWe had Mitch inspect our prospective house and he was amazing. He was thorough, patient to answer my questions and provide feedback on what areas he would recommend having a follow up expert and why. The office was responsive and I was able to book multiple services to be done in the same visit (inspection, radon test, sewer scope).
Chris PlaweckiOak Park, MIThis is one of the finest companies I have come across - that means serious customer service and professionalism. Justin was the inspector and he was very thorough yet very kind to answers all the questions that came in my mind during inspection. He took enough time, no rush, and a very detailed inspection was conducted. Extremely competitive pricing and timing from the company. 100% recommend to anyone looking for any kind of property inspection!!
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Questions
At the time of writing the domain redirects to a secure address carrying another municipality’s certificate, so browsers show a warning, and behind it the host returns an error saying the site is not a valid client site. Old pages still appear in search results. Telephone the village office instead.
From the township the parcel is in — Addison lies across Rollin and Woodstock Townships — and from Lenawee County for wells, septic systems, drains and roads.
Ask before you rely on anything. The two are separate offices in separate places with different hours, and which one holds your records depends on where the parcel sits rather than on the postal address.
A zoning and ordinance administrator and a list of inspectors, plus minutes for the township board, planning commission, zoning board of appeals, the Addison Fire Board and the sanitary drain.
Online property tax payment and a tax brochure, and sewer billing with an ACH form so payments can be charged automatically on the due date. Its office hours are listed per official rather than for the office as a whole.
We will not assume. Rollin Township runs sewer billing, which shows a system exists, but not which parcels are connected. Confirm in writing for the specific address and take well and septic questions to the Lenawee County health department.
No. About 69% of roughly 294 units are single-family detached, so close to a third is something else. We establish which situation a property is in before anything else.
On a median 1954 house the line out from the building is often the oldest untouched component on the property, and on a septic property the run from the house to the tank is nobody’s job by default. A camera inspection goes on the same visit.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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