Belleville, Michigan
Looking for a Belleville home inspector? We do certified home, commercial, mold and radon inspections in Belleville, seven days a week. Home inspection reports come back in 24 hours.
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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 Belleville 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 Belleville and across Wayne 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 Belleville 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 reportBelleville housing stock
Belleville has roughly 2,058 housing units and about 28% 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 1970s than from any other decade — 441 homes, roughly 21% of the town. It is also less detached-house territory than most of the area at 28%, so condominiums, duplexes and small multi-family buildings are a bigger share of what we inspect here — and those bring their own questions about what is yours to maintain and what belongs to the association.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $148,200. Only 50% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, so a good share of what we inspect here is bought as a rental or sold with tenants in place — which changes what access on the day looks like. There are around 452 manufactured and mobile homes in Belleville. 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 a Belleville 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 Belleville was built
85% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 19 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Belleville is one of the smallest cities we serve — about 1.2 square miles, with roughly 2,100 housing units — and one of the most varied to inspect.
The city sits on the south shore of Belleville Lake, and within that small footprint you get downtown property, established residential streets, waterfront and near-water homes, multi-family buildings and manufactured housing. Its 2026 Master Plan describes Belleville as built out, with future housing policy pointed at infill and redevelopment rather than new subdivisions.
One thing worth knowing before anything else: a Belleville mailing address does not mean a property is in the City of Belleville. Many Belleville addresses sit in Van Buren Township or Sumpter Township, which run their own water and sewer systems and their own permitting. It is worth confirming which jurisdiction a property is actually in.
So rather than assuming what a Belleville address implies, we inspect the individual structure, its systems, the visible site conditions and drainage, and how the property has changed over time.
Before you buy
Belleville Lake
Belleville Lake is an impoundment of the Huron River, created in the mid-1920s by the construction of the French Landing Dam. The City’s 2026 Master Plan dates the lake’s formation to 1926 in its own history timeline.
The plan describes the lake as spanning about six miles and covering roughly 1,200 acres, with about 1.5 miles of shoreline inside the City of Belleville and the remainder in neighboring Van Buren Township. The dam itself is in Van Buren Township, not the City.
For an inspection, the point isn’t the view. Waterfront and near-water properties raise site-specific questions about drainage, grading, retaining structures, exterior materials, foundations and moisture, and about accessory structures where they exist. Those get evaluated at the individual property rather than assumed because a home is near the lake.
We inspect the house and its accessible site conditions. We don’t perform shoreline, seawall or marine engineering, and we don’t determine flood-hazard status — that comes from authoritative flood maps and records, and it is worth checking separately for any property near water.
Housing mix
This is the fact that most changes what an inspection here looks like, and it surprises people.
The City’s 2026 Master Plan, drawing on 2019–2023 American Community Survey figures, puts single-family homes at about 27% of housing units inside the city limits and multi-family at roughly 53%, with most of the remainder manufactured and mobile homes. The plan characterizes Belleville’s housing as having shifted gradually toward a more varied mix of unit types.
That matters practically. A condominium or multi-family unit has a different inspection scope from a detached house, and the report has to be clear about where your responsibility stops and an association’s or building owner’s begins. A manufactured home is a different inspection again — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
It is worth knowing which of those you are actually buying before you book, because it changes what we are looking at.
Water and sewer
Properties inside the city limits are served by municipal water and sewer. The City draws its water supply from the Great Lakes Water Authority, and its Department of Public Services repairs, maintains and installs water and sewer mains, valves and service connections, and maintains storm and sanitary sewers, catch basins and manholes.
There is a detail here that is genuinely useful to a buyer. The City asks residents who think they have a sewer problem to contact Public Services, and a staff member can come out to help determine whether the problem is in the homeowner’s sewer line or the City’s main. That is a good first call if a question comes up — and it is a reminder that the public system and the building’s own sewer connection are two different things.
The building’s side is the part a buyer inherits, and it is the part a standard visual inspection cannot see inside. That is what scoping the line is for.
Remember the jurisdiction point: this describes the City of Belleville. A property with a Belleville mailing address in Van Buren or Sumpter Township is served by that township instead.
Permits and downtown
The City’s Building, Zoning and Planning Department enforces the building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing codes and publishes examples of work that needs a permit. Its plumbing examples include new fixtures, soil pipe connections, replacement of sewer laterals, soil stacks, vent pipes and water supply lines; its mechanical examples include heating systems, water heaters, chimney liners, gas lines, air conditioning and ductwork; its electrical examples include a new service, alterations to an existing branch circuit, and new outlets or lights. The City presents these as examples rather than a complete list.
For a buyer looking at a clearly renovated older property, permit history is useful context. It is not proof of anything either way: a permit does not establish that a component is in good condition today, and no permit record does not by itself establish that work was done badly. Permit research and an inspection answer different questions.
Downtown is worth a separate word. The Master Plan designates the Main Street area Downtown Mixed-Use and encourages multi-story buildings with commercial at street level and offices or housing above — that is the City’s stated direction rather than a description of what stands there now, and the same plan records very little true mixed-use built to date. A downtown address may be commercial, residential or a combination, so what a building actually is has to be confirmed property by property. We inspect commercial buildings as well as homes, which matters in a downtown this mixed.
Local information from City of Belleville 2026 Master Plan, adopted April 2026 · City of Belleville Building & Zoning · City of Belleville Public Services. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Wayne County
Zone 3 is the lowest of the three EPA categories — the predicted average indoor level across the county is below 2 pCi/L. That puts Belleville at the calmer end of Michigan’s radon picture, which is worth saying out loud rather than glossing over. What a zone cannot tell you is anything about one house: 17% of tests actually run in Wayne County still came back at or above the EPA’s 4 pCi/L action level, which is about one in six. The zone describes a county. The only result that describes your basement is the one measured in it.
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 · Wayne County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones. Elevated-result share from the Michigan Indoor Radon Program.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Belleville 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
David was extremely helpful with the details he provided me with. This is my first home purchase and I really appreciate his attention to detail. There were many things I would never have noticed that he pointed out to me. A lot of stress has been lifted off me after this inspection.
Stephen BuchananBelleville, MIOra from Trademark did an incredible job with the inspection and sewer scope of the home I am in the process of buying. He was very thorough, explained everything to me from the start, and made it all super easy to understand which definitely helped to put me at ease a bit more. Highly recommend this company!
Mariah HartmanWestland, MIJim was prompt and thorough during the mold testing. Clearly gave us an explanation about mold and testing process he was going to conduct. Testing was followed by a written report. I would recommend everyone use a third party to test mold, independent from the company conducting remediation work. I would hire Trademark again and strongly recommend them.
Alberto PicconeNorthville, MIWhat happens
Questions
No. Belleville Lake is an impoundment of the Huron River, created in the mid-1920s by the construction of the French Landing Dam — the City’s 2026 Master Plan dates it to 1926 in its history timeline. The plan describes the lake as spanning about six miles and covering roughly 1,200 acres, with about 1.5 miles of shoreline inside the city limits and the rest in Van Buren Township. For a buyer, the practical point is that an individual site’s drainage, foundation and relationship to nearby water should be evaluated at that property rather than assumed for all lakefront homes.
A waterfront location adds site-specific conditions worth understanding, but it doesn’t automatically mean the property has a problem. We evaluate accessible exterior grading, drainage, foundation conditions, basement or crawlspace areas, gutters and downspouts, and visible evidence of moisture. For waterfront or near-water properties those observations are especially useful. A standard home inspection does not determine flood-zone status and does not include shoreline, seawall or marine engineering.
No, and this is one of the more distinctive things about the city. The City’s 2026 Master Plan, using 2019–2023 American Community Survey figures, puts single-family homes at about 27% of housing units inside the city limits and multi-family at roughly 53%, with most of the remainder manufactured and mobile homes. For condominium and multi-family properties, it is worth understanding which components fall inside the inspection scope and which are maintained by an association or building owner. A manufactured home is a different inspection again.
It is worth considering, because the underground building sewer cannot be evaluated during a standard visual home inspection. Service line materials vary from property to property and a home’s age does not reliably indicate what is buried on any particular lot — a line may have been repaired or replaced in sections. A sewer camera inspection lets us view accessible portions of the line and document visible conditions such as roots, damage, displacement, bellies or blockages where present.
The City’s Building, Zoning and Planning Department enforces the building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing codes and publishes examples of work requiring a permit — including sewer lateral replacement, water supply piping, heating systems, water heaters, chimney liners, gas lines, air conditioning, ductwork and electrical alterations. Permit records can add useful context on a renovated property, but they don’t replace an inspection of the visible condition of that work today, and the City presents its lists as examples rather than a complete set.
Flood risk cannot be determined from a Belleville address or from being near the lake. The City’s recent Master Plan process identified flood-prone properties among the issues to account for in planning infrastructure and future development, but flood exposure is property-specific. A home inspection can document visible evidence involving drainage, grading, foundation moisture, sump equipment or past water entry where accessible. Official flood-hazard status should be verified separately using authoritative flood maps and records.
Yes. You can book a Belleville home inspector with us seven days a week, and we cover the rest of Wayne County too.
A home inspection report reaches you within 24 hours. Commercial buildings are 24 to 72 hours depending on size, a radon result comes at the end of the 48-hour test, and mold samples come back from the lab in one to three business days.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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