Attica 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 Attica 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.
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 Attica Township and across Lapeer 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 Attica 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 reportAttica Township housing stock
Attica Township has roughly 1,964 housing units and about 94% of them are single-family detached. Homes built in a single stretch tend to wear out in the same places at the same time. That is why when somewhere was built is the first thing worth knowing about it.
The busiest stretch of building here was the years before 1940: 499 homes, about 25% of everything standing today. At 94% single-family it is almost entirely detached houses, so the inspection is nearly always of a whole building rather than one unit inside one.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $234,800. 93% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist an Attica Township home inspector works through in a home of this age, and every item on it gets photographed and written up whichever way it turns out.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Attica Township was built
50% of homes here run on utility gas, and 89 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 511 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
The minimum lot size in Attica Township is two and a half acres, with 165 feet of road frontage. That single rule explains most of what follows, and it is why about 94% of the roughly 1,964 housing units here are detached houses — the second highest share of any community we cover.
The Township’s list of permit applications tells you the rest. Alongside the ordinary zoning and accessory building forms sit a pond permit, a mining permit with an annual renewal, a hazardous substance permit, a private road permit and a rear parcel private drive permit. That is the paperwork of a place where land is worked, divided and driven across.
Building inspection itself is contracted out to Construction Code Authority in Lapeer, so a permit search on a property here goes there rather than to the township hall. Zoning, land division and the ordinances stay with the Township.
The housing splits into two groups: 499 units predating 1940 — farmhouses and village property, a quarter of everything here — and a wave of 450 built in the 1990s with another 253 in the 2000s. Those need quite different inspections.
One practical note before you plan anything. The township hall keeps short hours, and the two people a buyer most often needs are in on different days: the zoning administrator on Mondays and Thursdays, the assessor on Tuesdays and Thursdays, both mornings only.
Before you buy
The land rules
The Township answers the questions it gets most often in a short list on its ordinances page, and the answers are specific enough to plan around.
A pond requires a minimum of five acres, has to sit at least 100 feet from the property lines and at least 100 feet from the road right of way, and carries an application fee. Keeping horses requires a minimum of five acres and at least 300 feet of road frontage. Three dogs are permitted without a kennel permit.
The shed answer is the one most likely to matter on a walkthrough. No permit is needed for a shed of 200 square feet or less — twenty feet by ten — but the Township is explicit that it still has to meet setback requirements. That distinction is where existing outbuildings most often turn out to be a problem: nobody needed a permit, so nobody checked the setback.
And land division goes through the assessor in person rather than through a form. On a parcel you might want to split later, that is a conversation worth having before you buy rather than after.
None of this is a home inspection question. We do not survey, determine setbacks or establish whether a structure sits where it should. What we do report is the condition of what is actually there, including outbuildings within the scope of the inspection — and on parcels this size, pole barns, detached garages and workshops often hold as much value as a finished basement would elsewhere. It is worth agreeing in advance which structures you want included so the time is allowed for.
Access
The Township issues both a private road permit and a rear parcel private drive permit, which tells you that a fair number of properties here are reached by something other than a public road.
That matters more than buyers usually expect. A private road is private property: it is maintained, plowed and eventually resurfaced by the owners it serves, not by the township or the county road commission. Whether there is an agreement setting out how those costs are shared, and whether it is recorded, is a title question worth settling before closing.
A rear parcel reached by a private drive raises the same questions in a sharper form, along with a practical one: can emergency vehicles and delivery trucks actually get in and turn around.
On an inspection we report the driveway as part of the exterior — its surface and condition, how water crosses and drains alongside it, whether a culvert at the road is present and clear, and whether the drive pitches water toward the house or away from it. On a long gravel drive the culvert is the component most often quietly failing, and when it goes it takes the ditch line with it.
Water is the theme on any rural parcel. The grade, the ditch, the culvert and the drive together decide where surface water ends up, and on a property with a septic drainfield that matters a great deal more than it does on a subdivision lot.
Wells and septic
On a township of two-and-a-half-acre minimums with no municipal water or sewer described on its site, the sensible working assumption on any property is a well and a septic system on the parcel until you learn otherwise.
Both are county health department territory. We do not evaluate septic systems and we do not test water. Those evaluations answer questions a visual inspection genuinely cannot: whether a drainfield is failing, when the tank was last pumped, and what is actually in the water. They also need booking early, because in the buying season they are in demand and a contingency period is short.
What we inspect is the building and everything from the house side of those systems inward: the accessible plumbing, the drain and vent arrangements we can see, how fixtures behave under load, and the visible condition of pump and pressure equipment.
The Township publishes a hazardous substance permit among its applications, which is a reminder that on agricultural land the history of what has been stored and used on a parcel is a real question — and one that belongs to environmental due diligence rather than to a home inspection. We report what we can see; a phase one environmental assessment is a different instrument and a different professional.
The assessor also conducts field audits of both existing properties and new construction, and the Township publishes farmland and qualified agricultural exemption forms. On a parcel carrying an agricultural exemption, a change of use or ownership can change the tax picture — worth asking about before you commit.
Two kinds of house
A quarter of the housing here predates 1940, and on one of those the inspection is an exercise in reading accumulated alteration across eighty-five years or more.
Electrical extended in stages by different hands, with mixed generations of wiring meeting in the same box, and a service upgrade whose depth matters far more than its date. Plumbing renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving material transitions worth examining. Insulation and ventilation retrofitted into a building designed without either. Heating added, replaced, and sometimes vented into a chimney never intended for it. Roofs on their fourth or fifth covering. Foundations and crawl spaces that have had a very long time to meet water.
On one of the 450 houses built in the 1990s the questions are entirely different: the original roof at or past its expected life, mechanical equipment being replaced for the first time with variable care, window seals and exterior finishes showing wear, grading settled since the build, and deck ledger connections and fasteners worth a proper look rather than a glance.
A buyer’s inspection covers the same ground either way — roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior — but the report reads very differently, and it should.
On a working parcel there is often a third building worth as much attention as the house. Pole barns and older agricultural structures have their own questions about framing, foundations, electrical supply and roof condition, and they are worth including deliberately rather than in passing.
The buried line
The drain line running out of the building belongs to the owner, wherever it terminates, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On one of the prewar houses that pipe may have been in the ground for the best part of a century. On a 1990s house it is thirty years old, which sounds safe until you remember that settlement after backfill and poorly bedded pipe are early-life problems rather than late-life ones. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Attica Township laterals are generally made of, and 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, which remains the owner’s pipe and is not the focus of a county health evaluation. 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, see the Township’s zoning and planning page for its permit applications, or get in touch about a specific address in Attica Township.
Local information from Attica Township — zoning and planning, permit applications and inspection arrangements · Attica Township — ordinances and answers on lot size, ponds, sheds and animals · Attica Township — Assessor, land division and agricultural exemption forms. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Attica 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
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
Two and a half acres, with 165 feet of road frontage. That rule shapes what can be divided, built on or added to a parcel here, and it is a large part of why about 94% of the housing is single-family detached.
Not for one of 200 square feet or less — twenty feet by ten. But the Township is explicit that it still has to meet setback requirements. That is where existing outbuildings most often turn out to be wrong: nobody needed a permit, so nobody checked the setback.
Only with a minimum of five acres. The Township requires the pond to be at least 100 feet from the property lines and at least 100 feet from the road right of way, and there is an application fee. The permit form is published with its other applications.
A minimum of five acres with at least 300 feet of road frontage. The Township also permits three dogs without a kennel permit. Both are worth checking against a specific parcel before you rely on them.
Building permits go through Construction Code Authority in Lapeer, which the Township contracts for building inspection. Zoning permits, land divisions and the ordinances stay with the Township. The zoning administrator and the assessor keep short hours on different days, so plan a visit rather than dropping in.
Then it is maintained, plowed and eventually resurfaced by the owners it serves rather than by the township or county. The Township issues private road and rear parcel private drive permits, so the arrangement is common here. Whether a cost-sharing agreement exists and is recorded is a title question worth settling before closing.
No to both. On a township of two-and-a-half-acre minimums, assume a well and a septic system until you learn otherwise, and book the county health department evaluations as soon as you are under contract. We inspect the building and the accessible plumbing inside it.
We report the condition of outbuildings that fall within the scope of the inspection, and on parcels this size they often matter as much as anything inside the house. Agree in advance which structures you want included so the time is allowed for.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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