Brighton 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 Brighton Township home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
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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 Brighton Township and across Livingston 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 Brighton 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 reportBrighton Township housing stock
Brighton Township has roughly 7,052 housing units and about 93% 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 1970s, which accounts for 1,799 homes, around 26% of the housing stock. At 93% 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 $376,900. 94% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Brighton Township 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 Brighton Township was built
87% of homes here run on utility gas, and 21 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 147 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Most townships leave you to work out what a property is connected to. Brighton Township says it outright: water service here is generally provided by individual homeowners and businesses using their own deep wells.
That is the Township’s own wording, and it changes the shape of buying here. On most of these properties there is no water utility to call — there is a well in the ground, it is yours, and it is regulated by the Livingston County Health Department, which permits any new well or modification to an existing one.
There are exceptions and they are geographic. A private community well system serves the Fonda Island and Briggs area. The Livingston Community Water Authority, formed in 2002 with Green Oak and Hamburg townships, runs mains along Whitmore Lake Road and Old US-23 from the southern township line up to Weber Drive, and took over the Country Club Annex supply in 2008.
So the first question about any property here is which of those three situations it is in. The second, on the wastewater side, is whether it has a grinder pump — because the Township publishes maintenance information for them, which means they are real here.
The housing is suburban and overwhelmingly detached: of about 7,052 units, 1,799 date from the 1970s, 1,522 from the 1990s and 1,161 from the 1980s, with around 93% single-family detached.
Before you buy
Wells
It is worth pausing on how unusual this is. Across the townships we write about, a great many publish water account numbers, district maps or connection fees and leave a buyer to guess what the typical property is on. We refuse to do that arithmetic, because an account count is not a service census and one account can serve a whole building.
Brighton Township removes the guesswork. Its public utilities page states that water service is generally provided by individual homeowners and businesses using their own deep wells, that those wells are regulated by the Livingston County Health Department, and that any new well or modification to an existing one requires a county permit.
For a buyer that means several things at once. Nobody is monitoring the water but you. Testing is your responsibility and your cost. The wellhead, the pressure tank, the pump and the electrical supply serving it are all equipment you are taking on, with service lives of their own. And if your plans involve a new well or a modification, that is a county permit before it is anything else.
To be plain about our own limits: a home inspection does not test water. We do not take samples and we do not analyze them. What a buyer’s inspection covers is the building — roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior — along with the visible parts of the water equipment and any treatment gear installed, which on well water is common and does wear out.
Where a property is on one of the two community systems instead, the authority publishes an annual water quality report and the position is different again. Establish which situation you are in before you go far.
Sewer
The wastewater side has its own question, and it is one buyers routinely do not know to ask.
The Township publishes grinder pump and sewer maintenance information alongside its sanitary sewer contacts, plant number, emergency line and a sanitary sewer REU charge, with rates effective from June 2025. A grinder pump macerates waste and pushes it into a pressurized main where a property cannot reach a gravity sewer — and where one is fitted it sits on the property with a tank, a pump, controls and an alarm, all with finite service lives.
This is the third township in our coverage with documented grinder pump equipment, and the questions are the same each time. Does this property have one? Where is it? How old? What circuit is it wired to, and is that circuit adequate and protected? Does the alarm work, and does anyone know what it sounds like? Is there any service history? A grinder pump that fails does not fail politely.
The Township’s Utilities Committee was originally formed in 1998 to study the possibilities of providing sanitary sewers in various areas of the township, which tells you something about how gradually sewer service has extended here — and why the answer varies so much from one road to the next.
On a property that is not on public sewer, the question becomes a septic one, which belongs to a county evaluation rather than to us.
Permits and hours
Brighton Township does not run its own building department pages; it points residents to the Livingston County permit guidebook. So building permits, inspections and permit history for a property here are a county matter, in the same way they are in neighboring Genoa Township.
What the Township does publish is its own code of ordinances, which governs zoning and land use, and a land use permit application.
And the hours matter: Township Hall runs Monday to Thursday, 7:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening, and is closed on Fridays. If your plan for a property depends on getting something from the Township quickly, a four-day week is worth building into it.
A word on permit records generally, since responsibility here is split between county and township: 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. In a jurisdiction where different bodies hold different records, an incomplete picture is even more likely — which puts more weight on what an inspection actually finds.
Fifty years on
The housing splits into two rough cohorts, and they ask different things.
The 1,799 units from the 1970s are now around fifty years old. Every original mechanical component has been replaced at least once, often twice, and the interesting question is the age and quality of the second or third generation rather than anything about the build year. On well water, that includes the pump, the pressure tank and any treatment equipment.
The 1,522 from the 1990s are approaching thirty. That is the age at which the original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater all reach the end of their expected service lives together, because they went in together. Grading that settled after backfill and now falls toward the foundation is the commonest source of water in a basement of that era.
And with around 93% of the housing single-family detached on generally larger lots, the water story extends past the foundation. How the ground moves water across the whole property — long drives, outbuildings, swales and culverts — is part of the picture, and we record what is accessible and visible.
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.
The buried line
On a property connected to public sewer, the buried lateral running from the building to the main is the one component nothing visual reaches.
On a house from the 1970s that pipe has been in the ground fifty years or more, with mature trees around it — enough 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 Brighton 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 Charter Township of Brighton — public utilities, wells and water authorities · Charter Township of Brighton — Utilities Committee · Charter Township of Brighton — code of ordinances. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Livingston 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 · Livingston County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Brighton 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
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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).
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Questions
Mostly not, and the Township says so directly: water service is generally provided by individual homeowners and businesses using their own deep wells, regulated by the Livingston County Health Department. There are exceptions — a private community well system serves the Fonda Island and Briggs area, and the Livingston Community Water Authority runs mains along Whitmore Lake Road and Old US-23 from the south township line to Weber Drive, having taken over the Country Club Annex supply in 2008.
You do. There is no utility monitoring it. The Livingston County Health Department regulates wells and permits new ones or modifications to existing ones, but testing an installed private well is the owner’s responsibility. We do not test water — we do not take samples and we do not analyze them — though we do report the visible parts of the water equipment and any treatment gear installed, which on well water is common and wears out.
It is a pump that macerates waste and pushes it into a pressurized sewer main where a property cannot reach a gravity sewer, and it sits on the property with a tank, controls and an alarm. The Township publishes grinder pump and sewer maintenance information, which tells you they exist here. Ask how old it is, what circuit it is wired to, whether the alarm has been tested and whether there is any service history.
From the county. Brighton Township points residents to the Livingston County permit guidebook rather than running its own building department pages, in the same way neighboring Genoa Township directs building code matters to the county. The Township publishes its own code of ordinances and a land use permit application.
Monday to Thursday, 7:30am to 5:30pm, and closed on Fridays. If your plan for a property depends on getting something from the Township quickly, that four-day week is worth building into the schedule rather than discovering on a Friday morning.
Two rough cohorts. Of about 7,052 housing units, 1,799 were built in the 1970s and 1,522 in the 1990s, with 1,161 from the 1980s and 706 from the 1960s. Around 93% is single-family detached — one of the highest shares anywhere we work. A 1970s house has had at least one full round of mechanical replacements; a 1990s house is reaching its first.
It extends the water story past the foundation. On larger properties, how the ground moves water across the whole site matters — long driveways, outbuildings, swales and culverts are part of the picture alongside grading at the foundation, gutters and downspouts, the basement or crawlspace, floor drains and any sump equipment. We record what is accessible and visible and say plainly what is not.
If the property is on public sewer, yes. The buried lateral is the one component no visual inspection reaches, and on a 1970s house it has been in the ground fifty years or more with mature trees around it. We will not guess a material from a build year. Putting a camera down the line documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same appointment. On a septic property the question is a different one and belongs to a county evaluation.
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