Bedford 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 Bedford 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 Bedford Township and across Monroe 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 a Bedford 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 reportBedford Township housing stock
Bedford Township has roughly 13,154 housing units and about 84% of them are single-family detached. Housing that went up mostly in one era has mostly one era’s problems — which is genuinely useful to know before you buy, because it tells you what to look at first.
Most of it went up in the 1990s — 2,499 homes, around 19% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $216,300. 86% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 533 manufactured and mobile homes in Bedford Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Bedford Township home inspector starts looking in a home of this age, and what we photograph and write up either way.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Bedford Township was built
93% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 172 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Bedford Township offers buyers something almost no municipality advertises: it will give you a copy of an Elevation Certificate if one has been filed for the property.
That matters because an Elevation Certificate is the document that determines how a property is rated for flood insurance. It is prepared by a licensed surveyor or engineer, it costs money, and most buyers never think to ask whether one already exists. The Township states that its Building and Planning departments help property owners with FEMA flood plain map questions, provide copies of Elevation Certificates where they are on file, and advise on FEMA’s mandatory flood insurance requirements.
It is worth a phone call before you commit — and worth being clear that this is not something a home inspection produces. We do not survey elevations and we do not determine flood zone status. That is the Township, FEMA’s maps, a surveyor and your insurer.
The housing is unusually evenly spread and unusually detached. Of about 13,154 units, the 1990s produced the most at 2,499, but every decade from the 1950s to the 2000s contributed between 1,000 and 1,800, and 1,311 units predate 1940. Around 84% is single-family detached — one of the highest shares anywhere we work.
Before you buy
The document most buyers never ask for
This is the single most useful thing on the Township’s website for somebody buying a house, and it is buried in a departmental description.
The Community Development and Planning Department states that it and the Building Department help property owners work out FEMA flood plain map questions, provide copies of Elevation Certificates where those have been filed with the Township, and advise owners on FEMA’s mandatory flood insurance requirements.
An Elevation Certificate records the elevation of a building relative to the base flood elevation on the FEMA map. It is what an insurer uses to rate a policy, and the difference between having one and not having one can be substantial on a property near mapped floodplain. Having the Township check whether one is already on file costs a phone call.
To be plain about our own limits: we do not prepare Elevation Certificates, we do not survey elevations, and a home inspection does not determine whether a property sits in a flood zone. Those are questions for the Township, the FEMA maps, a licensed surveyor and your insurer, in roughly that order.
What a buyer’s inspection does cover is how the building handles the water that reaches it: accessible grading and whether the ground sheds water away from the foundation, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, floor drains and any sump equipment, with staining, efflorescence and evidence of past repairs recorded as found. Near mapped floodplain that record is worth having whatever the maps say.
How permits work here
The Building Department publishes its process end to end, which makes it easy to know what should exist on a property that has had work done.
An application is made with site plans and drawings, giving the Building Official the chance to check setbacks, construction integrity and code compliance. The plan review comes back to the applicant with any required changes marked on the drawings, and fees are collected at that stage. Inspections follow at footings, foundations, rough and final — and, importantly, inspections are also required for all plumbing, mechanical and electrical permits. A certificate of occupancy or compliance is issued once all inspections on the building permit are satisfied.
That last point is worth flagging because it is not universal. Some municipalities in this region do not issue trade permits at all, leaving electrical, plumbing and mechanical work to the State, which makes their local records look emptier than they are. Bedford does inspect those trades, so their absence from a property’s record means something different here.
The usual caution still applies. A permit on file does not establish that work is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that it was done badly. The record tells you what was declared; an inspection tells you what is actually there.
Eight decades in one township
Most townships have an obvious center of gravity — a decade when most of it went up. Bedford does not.
Of roughly 13,154 units, the 1990s contributed 2,499 and the 2000s 1,763, but the 1960s added 1,663, the 1970s 1,631, the 1950s 1,592 and the 1980s 1,085 — with 1,311 units predating 1940 and 873 built since 2010. Around 84% of the whole is single-family detached.
What that means in practice is that two houses a mile apart can be entirely different inspections. A 1958 ranch is asking about an original service panel, a furnace that has turned over twice and a roof on its third covering. A 1998 colonial is approaching thirty and coming due for its first serious round of replacements. A prewar farmhouse is asking about everything at once.
We do not name components from a build year. We report what is installed, its condition, what is at or past the end of its service life, and what could not be seen — and on a township this varied that last category matters as much as the first.
The buried line
The Township bills sewer service directly and a Monroe County Road and Drain Commission representative holds regular hours at the Township building, so the public side of the system is well covered. The private side is the part nobody sees.
On a house from the 1960s the buried lateral running to the sewer main has been in the ground sixty years, and on a prewar house far longer — enough time for roots to find a joint, for ground movement to displace a section, or for a repair to have been made that nobody now remembers. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Bedford Township laterals are generally made of.
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 — and it is added to the same visit rather than booked separately.
Alongside it, commercial building inspections follow the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property, and radon testing or mold inspection and testing can be added to a residential or commercial visit.
Local information from Bedford Township — Community Development and Planning, FEMA flood plain and Elevation Certificates · Bedford Township — Building Department · Bedford Township — Ordinance Department. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Monroe 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 · Monroe County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Bedford 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
Mitch was great and thorough the our inspection. He provided explanations and suggestions throughout the service. Highly recommend!
Jaynie GMonroe, 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, 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
It is a document recording the elevation of a building relative to the base flood elevation on the FEMA map, and it is what an insurer uses to rate a flood policy. Bedford Township states that its Building and Planning departments provide copies of Elevation Certificates where they have been filed with the Township. If one already exists for the property you are buying, that is a document you would otherwise pay a surveyor to produce. It costs a phone call to find out.
No. We do not survey elevations, we do not prepare Elevation Certificates, and a home inspection does not determine flood zone status. Those are questions for the Township, the FEMA flood plain maps, a licensed surveyor and your insurer. What an inspection covers is how the building handles the water that reaches it — grading, gutters and downspouts, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, floor drains and any sump equipment.
The Township publishes it. An application goes in with site plans and drawings so the Building Official can check setbacks, construction integrity and code compliance; the plan review comes back with any changes marked and fees are collected; inspections follow at footings, foundations, rough and final; and inspections are also required for all plumbing, mechanical and electrical permits. A certificate of occupancy or compliance is issued once all inspections on the building permit are satisfied.
Here, yes. Bedford requires inspections for all plumbing, mechanical and electrical permits, so that work should leave a trace. It is worth knowing that this is not universal — some municipalities in this region leave those three trades to State permitting entirely, which makes their local records look emptier than they really are. The absence of a trade permit means something different depending on which side of a municipal line you are standing.
Spread evenly, which is unusual. Of about 13,154 housing units the 1990s produced the most at 2,499 and the 2000s added 1,763, but the 1960s contributed 1,663, the 1970s 1,631, the 1950s 1,592 and the 1980s 1,085, with 1,311 units predating 1940. Around 84% is single-family detached. Because no decade dominates, assumptions about age and construction do not travel across the township.
No. A permit on file does not establish that work is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that work was done badly. Plenty of sound work predates a record, and plenty of permitted work has aged out since. The record tells you what was declared; an inspection tells you what is actually there and what condition it is in.
Nothing we could verify says so. Several municipalities in this region run point-of-sale or rental certificate programs, and we are not going to import one that does not exist here. Confirm the current position with the Township rather than relying on any web page, this one included.
It is worth considering. The buried lateral running from the house to the sewer main is the one component no visual inspection reaches, and on a 1960s house it has been in the ground sixty years — longer on the prewar stock. We will not guess a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what laterals here are generally made of. Putting a camera down the line documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same appointment.
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