Argentine Township, 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 Argentine Township 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.
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$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 Argentine Township and across Genesee 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 Argentine Township 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 reportArgentine Township housing stock
Argentine Township has roughly 2,889 housing units and about 86% of them are single-family detached. The year a house went up decides more about what an inspection turns up than almost anything else about it, which is why it is where we start rather than where we finish.
More of it dates from the 1990s than from any other decade — 761 homes, roughly 26% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $251,800. 94% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 217 manufactured and mobile homes in Argentine Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
This is not a forecast for any one address. It is where an Argentine Township home inspector starts in a home of this age — and whatever we actually find, it goes in the report with photographs.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Argentine Township was built
58% of homes here run on utility gas, and 61 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 697 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Argentine Township has a separate permit application for almost every job. Not one general form with boxes to tick — individual applications for a deck, a pool, a roof, a shed, a sign, windows, a fence and residential alterations and repair, alongside the building, demolition and pole barn permits.
We have not found that anywhere else, and for a buyer it is genuinely good news. A re-roof and a window replacement each generate their own dated application here rather than vanishing into a general file, which means the paper history of a property should be unusually complete. A permit date is the best guide there is to how much service life a roof covering has left.
The Township’s ordinance list tells you what kind of place this is. Alongside the usual sanitary sewer and electrical code ordinances sit ones covering docks, vessel speeds on named lakes, wetlands, flood damage prevention, driveway culverts, stormwater discharge and water conservation. This is lake and water country, and the Township legislates accordingly.
The housing reflects it: about 86% of roughly 2,889 units are single-family detached, and 1,319 of them — 46% — were built in the 1990s and 2000s, with another 497 in the 1970s and 230 predating 1940.
One practical note before anything else. The Building Department operates from inside the fire station, and the address is a Linden one — Linden being a separate city. A mailing address here does not tell you which government a property answers to.
Before you buy
Permits
The Building Department publishes its whole set of applications online, and the granularity is the point. A homeowner replacing windows fills in a windows application. Someone building a deck fills in a deck application. A re-roof has its own form, which asks for the roof dimensions and the principal type of frame and distinguishes between an addition, an alteration and a repair.
Every one of those forms carries the same notice: Section 23a of the State Construction Code Act prohibits conspiring to circumvent the state’s licensing requirements for people performing work on residential buildings, and violators are subject to civil fines. The forms also ask a contractor for a federal employer identification number, a workers compensation insurance carrier and a state employment number, or a stated reason for exemption, and require a site plan.
That combination is a fair signal of what the Township cares about, and it matters to a buyer in a specific way. Work done by someone unlicensed and uninsured does not just carry a regulatory risk; it carries a quality risk you inherit with the house.
On an inspection we cannot tell you who did a piece of work, and we do not check licensing. What we can tell you is whether it looks like competent work. Flashing at a chimney or a wall, the way a ledger board is attached and flashed on a deck, how a window opening is sealed and trimmed, the tidiness and coherence of what is inside an electrical panel — these are the tells, and they are reportable.
A buyer’s inspection covering the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior is the practical complement to a permit search rather than a substitute for one. Do both here, because here the permit search is actually likely to tell you something.
Lake country
The Township’s ordinance library runs to dozens of documents, and several of them are about the parcel rather than the house.
There is a wetlands ordinance and a flood damage prevention ordinance. There is an ordinance governing the erection of docks, and separate ordinances regulating vessel speeds on named lakes. There are ordinances on sanitary sewers, on driveway culverts, on the discharge of storm water and on water conservation.
We want to be straight about the limits here. Those ordinances are published as scanned documents rather than searchable text, so we have not been able to read what they require and we are not going to guess. What we can tell you is that they exist, that on a lakefront or wetland-adjacent parcel they are likely to matter, and that the Township is the right place to ask before you plan a dock, a seawall, an outbuilding or an addition.
A home inspection does not determine floodplain status, delineate wetland or evaluate a dock. It reports what the site and the building actually show: the fall of the ground around the foundation, where downspouts and any sump discharge appear to go, soft ground or standing water we can see, and what the basement or crawl space shows about water that has been there before.
On a waterfront or near-water property those observations carry more weight than usual, because the water table is closer, seasonal levels move, and a basement that behaves in August is not necessarily the same basement in April. We describe what the building shows rather than predicting what a particular spring will do.
Stormwater
The Township publishes a short and unusually clear explanation on its discharge permits page: anyone discharging waste or wastewater into the surface waters of the state needs a federal discharge permit, and while discharging to a municipal treatment facility through a sanitary sewer does not require one, discharge to a storm sewer does not reach a treatment facility and counts as a direct discharge.
That single distinction explains a great deal about why municipalities care where household water goes. Anything that enters a storm system arrives in a lake or a creek essentially as it left the property.
The domestic version of the question is about connections rather than permits. Where does the sump discharge? Where do the downspouts end? Has a floor drain been connected to something it should not be? On older properties those arrangements were often made long after the building went up, by people solving one problem without much thought for the system as a whole.
On an inspection we trace sump and downspout discharges as far as they can be followed and report where they appear to go. Where a discharge disappears into a buried pipe we say so rather than guessing at its destination, because a confident guess in a report is worse than an honest uncertainty.
The Township also has its own ordinance prohibiting the discharge of storm water, which is another reason to know what is connected to what before you own it.
The housing
With 1,319 of its units built in the 1990s and 2000s, most property here is twenty to thirty-five years old, and the inspection concentrates on the first round of turnover rather than the third.
Original roofs from that period are now at or past the end of their expected life, or have already been replaced — which is exactly why the Township’s dated roof permits are worth asking for. Furnaces, water heaters and air conditioning from the build have generally been replaced once, and the quality of those replacements varies a great deal. Windows, seals and exterior finishes are at the stage where deferred maintenance starts to show. Grading has settled since the build, which on a rural or waterfront lot is usually the first thing a wet basement points back to.
Decks deserve particular attention on housing of this age. A deck built in the late nineties or 2000s is at the point where the ledger connection, the flashing behind it and the fasteners themselves are worth a close look rather than a glance.
The 497 units from the 1970s and the 230 predating 1940 are a different proposition: older lake cottages and farmhouses where the questions are about accumulated alteration — electrical extended in stages, plumbing renewed in part, insulation and heating retrofitted into buildings that were not designed around them, and foundations that have had far longer to contend with water.
The scope does not change between them. Where the time goes does.
The buried line
Whether a property here connects to a sanitary sewer or to a septic system on the parcel, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On a 1990s house it has been in the ground thirty years, which sounds safe until you remember that settlement after backfill, damage during construction or landscaping and poorly bedded pipe are early-life problems rather than late-life ones. On one of the older properties, the familiar issues apply: roots, cracks and displaced joints under a lot that has had decades to mature. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Argentine Township laterals are generally made of.
Where a property is on a well and a septic system, both go to the county health department rather than to us. We do not evaluate septic systems and we do not test water, and on a lake-country parcel those evaluations are worth booking the day you go under contract.
A sewer camera inspection records what is actually inside the line either way, including the building drain out to a septic tank, which remains the owner’s pipe. It is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately.
Alongside it we offer radon testing, mold inspection and testing, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard. You can read what our clients say, look through answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Argentine Township.
Local information from Argentine Township — Building Department and its permit applications · Argentine Township — township ordinances, including wetlands, docks and flood damage prevention · Argentine Township — discharge permits and storm sewer explanation. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Genesee County
Zone 2 is the middle EPA category — the predicted average indoor level across the county sits between 2 and 4 pCi/L.
We place a continuous monitor for 48 hours and read the result on site — no mail-in kit, no lab wait. How radon testing works · Genesee County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Argentine Township 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
Outstanding precision and attention to detail! Helps being able to make a truly informed decision about a home! Also, they are very veteran-friendly! No complaints here!
Desmond SheppardFlint, MINoah Scott was very thorough and explaining things to us, especially in regard to a possible mold problem.
Claudette GranvilleFlint, MII 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
The Township publishes a zoning permit application specifically for a roof, separate from its other applications, and it asks for the roof dimensions and the principal type of frame. That is useful when buying, because a permitted re-roof leaves a dated record, and the date is the best guide to how much service life a covering has left.
It publishes individual applications for decks, pools, roofs, sheds, signs, windows, fences and residential alterations and repair, alongside building, demolition and pole barn permits. For a buyer that is an advantage: each job leaves its own dated record rather than disappearing into a general file.
Every application cites the state provision that prohibits conspiring to circumvent Michigan’s licensing requirements for people performing work on residential buildings, with civil fines for violators. The forms also ask contractors for employer identification and workers compensation details, or a reason for exemption.
The Township publishes ordinances covering the erection of docks, wetlands, flood damage prevention, driveway culverts, storm water discharge, sanitary sewers and vessel speeds on named lakes. Those documents are published as scans rather than searchable text, so confirm the actual requirements with the Township before planning anything on or near the water.
No. Those are regulatory, survey and title questions. We report what the site and building actually show — grading, where downspouts and sump discharges appear to go, soft ground or standing water we can see, and what the basement or crawl space shows about water that has been there before. On a near-water property those observations matter more than usual.
Because a storm sewer does not lead to a treatment facility. The Township explains that discharge to a storm sewer counts as a direct discharge to surface water, unlike discharge to a sanitary sewer. It also has its own ordinance prohibiting storm water discharge, so knowing what is connected to what before you buy is worth doing.
No to both — those go through the county health department, and in lake country they are worth booking as soon as you are under contract. We inspect the building and the accessible plumbing inside it, and a camera inspection can still document the building drain out to the tank, which remains the owner’s pipe.
Often, yes. On a lateral laid thirty years ago the risks are early-life ones — settlement after backfill, construction or landscaping damage, poorly bedded pipe that has developed a belly — and they usually surface as a drain that runs slow for no obvious reason. A camera inspection documents the actual condition and is added to the same visit.
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