Casco 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 Casco 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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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 Casco Township and across St Clair 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 Casco 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 reportCasco Township housing stock
Casco Township has roughly 1,466 housing units and about 85% 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 — 395 homes, around 27% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $270,600. 95% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 220 manufactured and mobile homes in Casco 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 Casco 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 Casco Township was built
67% of homes here run on utility gas, and 8 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 279 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Casco Township runs its permit process in an order that catches people out, and it is worth knowing before you plan any work at all.
The Township states that site plan approval is required before any building permit can be issued, and that its zoning administrator handles all residential site plan reviews. Not commercial development, not subdivisions — all residential.
So on an ordinary house, an addition or a garage, the sequence here is site plan first, building permit second. Plenty of townships exempt individual single-family homes from site plan review entirely. Casco does not, and if you arrive expecting to walk out with a building permit you will be going away again.
The same official also assigns all addresses in the township, which is worth knowing if you are buying a newly created parcel or a property that has never had a formal address.
One other rule is worth flagging because it is the one homeowners most often assume they can ignore: pools more than 24 inches deep require permits, and the Township is explicit that this includes above-ground pools as well as in-ground. Decks and barriers are required to provide safety for them.
The housing is mostly late twentieth century — 395 units from the 1990s and 265 from the 1970s — with 187 predating 1940 and only 122 built since 2000.
Before you buy
Permits
The Township’s zoning page is short and the important sentence is unambiguous: site plan approval is required before any building permit can be issued, and the zoning administrator is responsible for all residential site plan reviews as well as all address assignments.
That sequencing matters for anyone buying with work in mind. A site plan review is a separate step with its own timescale, and it sits in front of everything else. If you are planning an addition, a detached garage, a pole barn or a deck as part of the reason you are buying, build that step into the timeline rather than assuming a single visit to the counter will do it.
The building department issues permits for barns, homes, garages, additions, decks and ponds, and asks for a copy of the contractor’s license and driving license with every building permit application. Applications are available in the office during business hours and online, and mechanical, electrical and plumbing permits are handled separately — the Township asks you to check whether your project needs them.
It is also candid about why applications stall: usually because the proper building plans and site plan drawings have not been submitted, or because they lack the detail needed for review. Its own advice is to get the packets early and read them thoroughly, which given the site plan requirement is worth taking seriously.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and cannot tell you whether a permit was pulled. What it does is tell you what was actually done to a property, so the records request you make is targeted. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, while you still have room to act on it.
Pools
Of all the things people put in a garden without asking, an above-ground pool is near the top of the list. Casco Township closes that gap explicitly: pools over 24 inches deep require permits, above-ground and in-ground alike, and decks and barriers are required to provide safety.
For a buyer that gives you a clear question to ask about any property with a pool: is there a permit for it? A pool installed without one is also a pool whose barrier arrangements nobody official has ever looked at.
Barriers are the part that matters most, because they are the difference between an amenity and a hazard. On an inspection we report the visible condition and configuration of pool barriers, gates and latches, along with the electrical arrangements serving pool equipment — which is a common place to find work that was done informally.
We also report the condition of decking around a pool where it is present: the ledger connection if it is attached to the house, post bases and bearing, guard heights and infill spacing, and stair geometry. On a structure built to sit beside water, those are not academic details.
What we do not do is a full pool inspection. We do not pressure-test pool plumbing or evaluate the shell or liner in detail; that is separate specialist work and we will say so rather than imply otherwise. But if a barrier arrangement does not appear to meet what the Township describes, you will hear about it from us before you own it.
The housing
The largest group here is the 395 units from the 1990s, with 265 from the 1970s, 205 from the 1960s and 187 predating 1940. Only 122 units have been added since 2000.
The 1990s houses are now around thirty years old, which is exactly when the first full round of replacements arrives. Original roof coverings reaching the end of their service life. Water heaters on their second or third. Furnaces and air conditioning condensers at the point where the next failure means replacement rather than repair.
Windows and exterior doors from that period are usually the original units, and their seals and hardware are where wear shows first. Decks built with those houses need ledger connections, flashing, fasteners and post bases genuinely examined rather than glanced at.
On the 1960s and 1970s stock, service panels are often at or past the point where an upgrade is worth considering, and fifty or sixty years of circuits added in stages is normal. Plumbing has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving material transitions at the joins. Roofs are on a second or third covering, and heating equipment is two or three generations from the original.
On the 187 pre-1940 houses the questions go further back again: electrical rebuilt across eighty years or more, several generations of roof covering, and foundations of stone or early block whose condition tracks how water has been managed around the building.
At 85% detached housing, outbuildings are common and deserve proper attention. Barns, pole buildings, detached garages and workshops frequently carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions, and they are among the structures the Township permits specifically.
Radon testing and mold inspection and testing can be added to any visit, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard are available for commercial property.
Ponds and ground
Ponds appear on the Township’s list of typical permits, which tells you they are common enough here to be routine. If a property has one, ask whether it was permitted — and think about what it does to the water table across the rest of the site.
That matters because a pond changes how water sits and moves on a parcel, and on a property that also has a septic drainfield the two need to be considered together. A drainfield needs unsaturated ground beneath it, and standing water nearby is not a neutral neighbor.
On the building itself we report where the downspouts terminate and whether they carry water clear of the walls or drop it at the foundation, where any sump pump discharges and whether there is a backup arrangement, and how the ground falls away from the building.
On a rural lot with a long drive, we also look at the driveway surface and at culverts or drainage crossings where they are visible, because a blocked culvert backs water onto the property rather than away from it.
Inside, we look for what water leaves behind: staining and tide lines on foundation walls, efflorescence and mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes, and corrosion at the base of mechanical equipment. Equipment raised up on blocks is usually a story about something that happened once.
Water and waste
The Township publishes no water or sewer department, and nothing about wells or septic systems. So we are not going to state whether any address here is on a public system or on a well and a septic system.
Get the answer in writing for the specific parcel, and take well and septic questions to the county health department. A septic evaluation is specialist work carried out by or through them. It answers questions no visual inspection can — whether a drainfield is failing, and the true condition of the tank — and it needs arranging early because it takes its own time. A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation.
What we inspect is the building and everything from the house side of the system inward: the accessible supply and drain lines, the vent arrangements we can see, how fixtures behave when the system is loaded, and the visible condition of any pump, pressure tank and treatment equipment.
That is a genuine limit and we would rather state it than blur it. What happens beyond the building — in the tank, in the field, in the well — is somebody else’s specialism, and on a rural property it is worth paying for properly.
The buried line
Whatever a property here drains to, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On a 1990s house that pipe is around thirty years old, which is young enough that people assume it is fine and old enough that it often is not. On one of the 187 houses predating 1940, considerably older. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Casco 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 — the owner’s pipe, and the part a septic evaluation does not examine, since that looks at the tank and the field rather than the run between them and the house.
On the 1990s stock there is a second reason to look: a line laid during that build-out can carry construction debris or a settled section from the day it went in, and nothing about a thirty-year-old house suggests it.
A camera inspection is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately. You can read what our clients say, look through answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Casco Township.
Local information from Casco Township — zoning: site plan approval and address assignment · Casco Township — building department, permits and pool requirements · Casco Township — welcome and township information · Casco Township — township home page. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Casco 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!!
Chirag R MiyaniMichiganWhat happens
Questions
Yes. The Township states that site plan approval is required before any building permit can be issued, and its zoning administrator handles all residential site plan reviews. Many townships exempt individual single-family homes; Casco does not.
Site plan review is a separate step with its own timescale, sitting in front of the building permit. If an addition, garage, pole barn or deck is part of why you are buying, build that step in rather than assuming one visit to the counter will do it.
Yes, if it is more than 24 inches deep. The Township is explicit that the requirement covers above-ground as well as in-ground pools, and that decks and barriers are required to provide safety.
Whether there is a permit for it, and what the barrier arrangements are. A pool installed without a permit is a pool whose barriers nobody official has looked at. We report the visible condition of barriers, gates and latches and the electrical arrangements serving pool equipment.
Not a full one. We do not pressure-test pool plumbing or evaluate the shell or liner in detail — that is separate specialist work. But if a barrier arrangement does not appear to meet what the Township describes, you will hear about it from us.
The zoning administrator, alongside residential site plan review. That is worth knowing if you are buying a newly created parcel or a property that has never had a formal address.
It can. Ponds are on the Township’s list of typical permits, so ask whether it was permitted — and on a property that also has a septic drainfield, think about the two together, because a drainfield needs unsaturated ground beneath it.
Ask, and get it in writing. The Township publishes no water or sewer department and nothing about wells or septic, so we will not assume. Take those questions to the county health department and arrange any evaluation early.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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