Brownstown, 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 Brownstown 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 Brownstown 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 Brownstown 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 reportBrownstown housing stock
Brownstown has roughly 12,544 housing units and about 70% 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 2000s — 3,328 homes, around 27% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $242,500. There are around 639 manufactured and mobile homes in Brownstown. 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 Brownstown 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 Brownstown was built
91% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 180 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Two things, and neither is what people expect from a Downriver community.
The first is the geography. Brownstown isn’t one continuous suburb — the Brownstown Historical Society describes the township as “divided into three distinct sections, which appear fragmented when viewed on the map.” Which section a property sits in genuinely matters, because they developed differently and sit in different surroundings.
The second is the age. Where much of Downriver is mid-century housing, the median Brownstown home was built in 1994. Census figures put 27% of the housing in the 2000s, 23% in the 1970s and 20% in the 1990s, with only about 2% predating 1940. This is a township built in several distinct waves rather than one.
Both of those cut the same way during an inspection: a Brownstown address tells you much less than usual about what you are buying. A 1970s house in one section and a 2005 house in another are different properties in different settings, and we inspect the one in front of us rather than the average of the township.
Before you buy
Development history
This is the most distinctive thing about the township, and it is a matter of record rather than local lore.
Brownstown was designated a township by the Michigan Territorial Council on 12 April 1827, and covered about 43 square miles — one of Wayne County’s original townships. It is much smaller now because other communities were incorporated out of it: Gibraltar in 1961, Rockwood in 1964 out of a southern portion, and Woodhaven and Flat Rock both in 1965 — the Historical Society sets out the whole sequence. What was left is the township as it stands.
The practical consequence is that Brownstown surrounds and abuts several independent cities and exists in disconnected pieces. A property described locally as “in Brownstown” may sit in the township or in one of its neighbors, and that determines whose permits, whose utilities and whose rules apply. It is worth confirming the jurisdiction rather than assuming it from a mailing address.
The northern section carries much of the suburban and commercial growth around I-75 and the Telegraph corridor. The southern section reaches toward the Huron River and Lake Erie and is a genuinely different setting — which is why it is worth saying that the township as a whole is not “on the water”, even though part of it is. Wherever the house sits, radon testing and mold inspection and testing can go on the same visit as the inspection.
From farmland to subdivisions
Brownstown began as farmland, and the shift to what it is now is recent enough to be documented rather than remembered.
A township newsletter from October 1966 describes a “31 mile system of sanitary sewers and interceptor drains, extending from the northern-most portion of the Township to the extreme southeastern section”, and says plainly that it “will open a large portion of Brownstown Township for industrial, commercial and residential development.” It goes on to note that land in neighboring communities was already spoken for, so industrial and commercial interest was turning to Brownstown.
That is the infrastructure decision that made the later building waves possible, and it explains the housing profile: a township with 1970s subdivisions, a 1990s wave and a larger 2000s wave, rather than a single mid-century build-out.
It is history, and we treat it as history. A 1966 sewer program says nothing about the condition or the material of any individual property’s private line today, and the township’s farmland origins are not evidence that any particular subdivision has drainage or grading problems. Those are questions for the property, answered at the property.
Permits
Brownstown uses the BS&A Online portal for permit applications, inspection scheduling and building department record search, alongside assessing and property-sale records. For a buyer looking at a house that has clearly been altered, that record search is a genuinely useful piece of context.
There is also a recent procedural change. The township has announced that it is eliminating the requirement to obtain homeowners-association approval before the Building Department issues a permit, on the basis that it cannot delay or deny a permit over private covenants. Property owners remain responsible for complying with any HOA covenants, restrictions and architectural standards — township approval does not override them. Because this is recent, confirm current requirements with the Township Building Department rather than relying on this page.
Either way, the same limit applies as anywhere: 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.
Commercial property
The commercial side here is not incidental. Wayne County describes Brownstown as a regional business hub, and the names on the ground make the point — Amazon, Henry Ford Health, the General Motors battery assembly plant, Michigan CAT, CMAC Transportation and Reino Linen among them.
That is a genuinely different mix of buildings from a purely residential suburb: distribution and warehouse space, medical premises, industrial plant and the retail and service property that grows up alongside them.
Trademark Inspection Services inspects commercial property as well as homes — offices, retail, multi-tenant buildings, warehouses and industrial space — to the CCPIA standard, with the scope agreed in advance because access and shared systems decide what can be covered.
Local information from Brownstown Historical Society — how Brownstown got its shape · Brownstown Township News, October 1966 · Charter Township of Brownstown. 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. So Brownstown is not where Michigan’s alarming radon numbers are, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. 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. A zone is a prediction of an average, and nobody lives in an average.
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 Brownstown 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
Ora 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, MICowboy “Jim” just did Mold Testing in my parents’ basement. He was Professional, explained the what, how and yet of everything to my Senior parents. Our results came back super quick. He even referred us to the resources on the Trademark website for me to use to fix the leaky basement. It’s 1 stop shopping with Trademark.
Becky JohnsonWayne, MIWhat happens
Questions
Because other communities were incorporated out of it. Brownstown was designated a township in 1827 and covered about 43 square miles; Gibraltar was formed out of it in 1961, Rockwood in 1964 from a southern portion, and Woodhaven and Flat Rock both in 1965. The Brownstown Historical Society describes what remains as “divided into three distinct sections, which appear fragmented when viewed on the map.”
Yes, substantially. The median Brownstown home was built in 1994. Census figures put about 27% of the housing in the 2000s, 23% in the 1970s and 20% in the 1990s, with only around 2% predating 1940. Those two facts sit together comfortably — the 2000s is the single largest decade while enough housing predates 2000 to hold the median at 1994. It does not make an inspection less useful: a 1994 house is over thirty years old, which is where first roofs, furnaces and water heaters reach the end of their service lives.
Because the township is three physically separated sections rather than one continuous community, and they differ. The northern section carries much of the suburban and commercial growth around I-75 and Telegraph; the southern section reaches toward the Huron River and Lake Erie and is a different setting entirely. Brownstown also surrounds and abuts several independent cities, so it is worth confirming which jurisdiction a property is actually in rather than assuming from the mailing address.
It is worth considering. The condition of an underground line cannot be determined from a construction year, and Brownstown contains housing from several development eras, so the age of the house tells you very little about what is buried. A sewer camera inspection lets us view accessible portions of the line from inside and document visible conditions such as roots, damage, displacement, bellies or blockages where present.
Yes. Census figures identify roughly 639 manufactured and mobile homes in the township. That is a different inspection from a conventional house — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement and foundation. It is worth telling us which you are buying when you book, because it changes the scope of the inspection.
Brownstown uses BS&A Online, which includes a Building Department record search alongside permit applications, inspection scheduling and assessing and property-sale records. That is useful context on a property that has clearly been altered. It does not replace an inspection — a permit does not establish the present condition of the work, and permit research and an inspection answer different questions.
Yes. You can book a Brownstown 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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