Clifford, 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 Clifford 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 Clifford and across Lapeer 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 Clifford 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 reportClifford housing stock
Clifford has roughly 127 housing units and about 86% of them are single-family detached. Homes built in a single stretch tend to wear out in the same places at the same time. That is why when somewhere was built is the first thing worth knowing about it.
The busiest stretch of building here was the years before 1940: 48 homes, about 38% of everything standing today.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $98,300. 85% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist a Clifford home inspector works through in a home of this age, and every item on it gets photographed and written up whichever way it turns out.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Clifford was built
73% of homes here run on utility gas, and 4 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 7 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Clifford is small — roughly 127 housing units, which makes it one of the smallest communities we cover. That has one straightforward consequence for a buyer: there is no large municipal machine to work through, and most questions end up being a single phone call to the village office.
The thing worth knowing right now is that Main Street is being rebuilt. The village has published the full bid package for a Main Street rehabilitation, with a project manual dated July 2026. Reading the specification sections, the work is a road surface project: hot mix asphalt paving and pavement joint and crack repair.
We want to be precise about that, because it would be easy to assume more. There is no utilities division in that project manual — nothing about water mains, sewers or service lines. It is the road, not what is under it. If somebody tells you the village is replacing services while the street is open, ask them where they read it.
What it does mean is a construction season on the main street of a very small village, and that is worth asking about if you are buying on or near it. Access during the work, and how a driveway approach meets a resurfaced road afterwards, are both real questions. The village office can tell you the schedule; we can tell you the condition of the approach and the drainage as it stands today.
A home inspection is not a code inspection or a permit search and we do not present it as one. What we establish is what is physically there and what condition it is in.
Before you buy
Water
The village supplies water, and its water page carries an unbroken run of annual water quality reports from 2018 through 2025. For a community of 127 housing units that is real diligence, and it is more useful to a buyer than any single year would be, because eight consecutive reports let you look at a direction rather than a snapshot.
The village also posts a short notice stating that its water was tested for PFAS and, in the village’s own words, that it is well below any worrisome levels, with an invitation to contact the office with further questions. That is the village’s characterization and we are repeating it as such rather than endorsing it — we have not seen the underlying results, we are not a laboratory, and water quality is not something a home inspection measures. Read the village’s own reports and ask the office.
Where the boundary falls is the part we can be useful about. A water quality report describes the supply as delivered. It says nothing about the plumbing on the house side of the meter, which belongs to the owner — and on a median 1955 house that plumbing predates the 1986 ban on lead solder in potable water lines by a wide margin.
So we report the visible supply piping and its material where it is exposed, the transitions between materials at the joins, the condition of the shut-offs, how the system behaves when it is loaded, and the visible condition of the water heater. A home inspection does not include drinking water testing and we do not present it as one.
The housing
Clifford has roughly 127 housing units, about 86% of them single-family detached, with a median build year of 1955. On a stock that small there is no such thing as a typical street, so what follows is where we start looking rather than a prediction about any particular house.
On housing of that period the electrical system is usually the accumulated work of several decades: mixed wiring types arriving in the same enclosure, ungrounded receptacles, a panel added to more than once, and an original service capacity sized for a 1955 household. We report what is actually there and photograph it either way.
Plumbing has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, so the material transitions at the joins are where problems concentrate. Heating and water heating equipment will be several replacements deep. Roof coverings will be on a second or third generation, and the flashings and penetrations matter more than the covering itself.
Foundations of the era are typically block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how they were built. On a village lot that means where the downspouts terminate, whether there is a sump and where it discharges to, and how the ground falls away from the walls.
Detached housing on rural village lots also means outbuildings — garages, sheds and workshops that often carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions, and are frequently where informal work has built up over the years. We inspect them as part of the property. 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.
The buried line
The village publishes a water page and we found no sewer department page alongside it. So we are not going to tell you what a property here drains to. On a village of this size in this part of Lapeer County it would be easy to assume, and easy to be wrong about a specific address. Get the answer in writing for the parcel you are buying.
Whichever it turns out to be, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner and no visual inspection reaches inside it. On a median 1955 house that pipe is around seventy years old unless somebody has replaced it, and we will not name a material from a build year — a guess in a report is worse than no statement at all.
If the property turns out to be on a septic system, that is specialist work arranged through the county health department, and it answers questions no visual inspection can: whether a drainfield is failing, and the true condition of the tank. It runs to its own timetable, so it needs arranging early. A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation.
What a sewer camera inspection does either way is record what is actually inside the owner’s pipe: 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, which is the stretch a septic evaluation does not examine and which is nobody’s job by default.
It goes on the same appointment rather than a second visit, and we deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day. You can read what our clients say, browse answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Clifford.
Local information from Village of Clifford — water and annual water quality reports · Village of Clifford — special projects · Village of Clifford — Main St Rehabilitation project manual, July 2026 · Village of Clifford — village government. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Clifford 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!!
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Questions
The village has published a Main Street rehabilitation project manual dated July 2026. The specification sections cover hot mix asphalt paving and pavement joint and crack repair — a road surface project. Ask the village office for the schedule.
Nothing we read says so. The project manual has no utilities division in its table of contents, so treat it as a road project unless the village tells you otherwise.
We could not establish that from the village website and we are not going to guess. Ask the village office before planning work, rather than assuming it runs the way a neighboring community does.
On the village’s water page, which carries consecutive annual reports from 2018 through 2025. Eight years in a row lets you read a trend rather than a single snapshot.
It posts a notice stating the water was tested for PFAS and that, in the village’s words, it is well below any worrisome levels, with an invitation to contact the office with questions. That is the village’s characterization; water quality is not something a home inspection measures.
No. That is a separate discipline with its own certified laboratories. What we report on is the visible plumbing inside the house, which is the owner’s side of the meter and a different question from the supply.
We will not assume. The village publishes a water page and no sewer page, and what a specific parcel drains to is worth confirming in writing. Septic evaluations are arranged through the county health department and need booking early.
On a median 1955 house the line out from the building is often the oldest untouched component on the property, and on a septic property the run from the house to the tank is nobody’s job by default. A camera inspection goes on the same visit.
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