Cohoctah 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 Cohoctah Township 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.
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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 Cohoctah 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 Cohoctah 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 reportCohoctah Township housing stock
Cohoctah Township has roughly 1,409 housing units and about 85% 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 years before 1940, which accounts for 446 homes, around 32% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $296,200. 85% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Cohoctah 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 Cohoctah Township was built
29% of homes here run on utility gas, and 63 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 618 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Cohoctah Township applies a single, clean test to any work on a house, and it is worth knowing because it determines whether a job left a record.
The Township runs two tracks. Work that alters the building’s footprint needs a land use application. Work that does not alter the footprint needs a land use waiver — and the Township names the examples directly: roofs, windows and doors.
That matters to a buyer more than it sounds. In a great many communities a re-roof or a window replacement passes without any municipal paperwork at all. Here, the lighter process still produces a record, so a property’s file at the township should tell you something about work that elsewhere would be invisible.
The housing is old and rural. Of roughly 1,409 units, 446 — 32% — predate 1940, while the whole of the 1940s and 1950s together account for only about 64 units. Behind that sit 273 houses from the 1970s and 279 from the 1990s. About 85% is single-family detached.
One point of order: the township hall carries a Fowlerville mailing address, and Fowlerville is a separate village government, with Handy Township using the same postal name again. An address here really does not tell you which government a property answers to.
Before you buy
The footprint test
The Township’s land use waiver page explains the whole system in a sentence: a waiver is used for home projects that do not alter the building’s footprint, such as roofs, windows and doors.
Everything that does change the footprint — an addition, a deck, a detached garage, a pole barn — goes through the fuller land use application instead, and larger or unusual proposals go on to site plan review, a special use permit or the zoning board of appeals.
It is a sensible way to run a small township, and for anyone researching a property it means the file is more complete than you might expect. When you ask what has been done to a house here, a roof or a set of windows should appear.
That is useful because a permit or waiver carries a date, and a date is the single most useful number for judging how much service life a roof covering has left. On a stock where 446 units predate 1940, most properties are on their fourth or fifth covering, and knowing when the current one went on beats any estimate made from the ground.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and does not replace one. What it does is report the condition and apparent function of the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior — and tell you which parts of the file are worth asking for.
Rural forms
The Township’s forms page is a fair portrait of the place. Alongside the land use application and waiver sit a demolition waiver, a home occupation permit, a sign permit, site plan review, a special use permit, a planned unit development application and a temporary structure permit.
Two are worth singling out. There is a temporary mobile housing permit — a township that contemplates somebody living in a mobile home temporarily on a parcel, which is a genuinely rural pattern, usually while a house is being built or to accommodate a family member. And land division and land combination applications sit under the assessor rather than under zoning, so splitting or joining a parcel starts in a different office.
The Township also runs an equine park with its own user agreement, which tells you something about what people keep on land here.
Zoning questions go to a single zoning administrator with a direct number, which in a township this size is both efficient and worth using early. On a rural parcel the questions that matter — what can be built, how a parcel might be divided, whether an outbuilding is where it should be — are cheap to ask and expensive to guess at.
The Township additionally publishes a dedicated page of documents relating to a proposed solar project, including the application and correspondence. We take no view on it and know nothing about its status. We mention it only because on rural land, what is proposed nearby is exactly the sort of thing a buyer should check for, and this township has made those documents easy to find.
Wells and septic
The Township publishes no municipal water or sewer pages, and on a rural township of this profile the sensible working assumption on any property is a well and a septic system on the parcel until you learn otherwise.
Both are county health department territory. We do not evaluate septic systems and we do not test water. Those evaluations answer questions a visual inspection genuinely cannot: whether a drainfield is failing, when the tank was last pumped, and what is actually in the water. They also need booking early, because in the buying season they are in demand and a contingency period is short.
What we inspect is the building and everything from the house side of those systems inward: the accessible plumbing, the drain and vent arrangements we can see, how fixtures behave under load, and the visible condition of pump and pressure equipment.
Surface water matters more on a rural parcel than most buyers expect. A drainfield working under ground that is also taking every downspout, the sump discharge and runoff from a gravel drive is a drainfield working against you. We report the fall of the ground around the building, the condition of gutters and where downspouts terminate, and where any sump discharge appears to go.
Outbuildings are part of the picture too. Pole barns, detached garages and workshops are common on parcels this size and often hold real value, so it is worth agreeing in advance which structures you want included in the inspection.
Old farmhouses
A third of the housing here predates 1940, and on one of those the inspection is largely an exercise in reading what has accumulated.
Electrical extended in stages by different hands, with mixed generations of wiring meeting in the same box, and a service upgrade whose depth matters far more than its date. Plumbing renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving material transitions worth examining. Insulation and ventilation retrofitted into a building designed without either. Heating added, replaced, and sometimes vented into a chimney never intended for it. Roofs on their fourth or fifth covering.
And a foundation, crawl space or basement that has had eighty-five years or more of freeze, thaw and groundwater to contend with. The record of that is usually readable in staining, efflorescence, previous patching and how the space is used.
On the 273 houses from the 1970s and the 279 from the 1990s the questions shift toward replacement cycles: second and third generation mechanical equipment, windows replaced once, roofs at or past their second covering, and grading that has settled since the build.
The scope of the inspection does not change between them. Where the hours go does, and being clear about that before the appointment makes for a more useful report.
The buried line
Whether a property here drains to a septic tank or to a sewer connection, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On one of the prewar houses that pipe may have been in the ground the better part of a century. On a 1970s house it is fifty years old, under a lot whose planting has had exactly that long to mature. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Cohoctah 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, which remains the owner’s pipe and is not the focus of a county health evaluation. It is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately.
Alongside it we offer radon testing, mold inspection and testing, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard.
You can read what our clients say, look through answers to common questions, see the Township’s zoning page, or get in touch about a specific address in Cohoctah Township.
Local information from Cohoctah Township — land use waiver and the footprint test · Cohoctah Township — forms and applications · Cohoctah Township — zoning department and administrator. 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 Cohoctah 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!!
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Questions
You need a land use waiver. The Township explains that a waiver is used for home projects that do not alter the building’s footprint, naming roofs, windows and doors specifically. Work that does change the footprint takes the fuller land use application instead.
Because it means the Township file is more complete than in most communities. A re-roof or a window replacement that would leave no trace elsewhere should have generated a waiver here — and a waiver carries a date, which is the best guide to how much service life a roof covering has left.
A demolition waiver, a home occupation permit, a temporary structure permit, a temporary mobile housing permit, a sign permit, site plan review, special use permits and planned unit development applications. Land division and land combination applications sit with the assessor rather than with zoning.
On a rural township with no municipal water or sewer pages, yes, until you learn otherwise. Both go through the county health department rather than through us, and in the buying season those evaluations need booking as soon as you are under contract.
No to both. We inspect the building and the accessible plumbing inside it, report how fixtures behave under load, and note the visible condition of pump and pressure equipment. On a septic property a camera inspection can still document the building drain out to the tank, which remains the owner’s pipe.
The Township publishes a dedicated page of documents relating to a proposed solar project, including the application and correspondence. We take no view on it. We mention it because on rural land, active proposals nearby are worth checking for, and this township has made the documents easy to find.
Not necessarily. The township hall itself carries a Fowlerville mailing address, and the Village of Fowlerville and Handy Township use the same postal name. Three separate governments share it, so confirm which one a parcel actually sits in before relying on any local rule.
On this housing stock, yes. The line running out of the building is the owner’s, on a prewar house it may have been down there close to a century, and mature planting has had the same time to find it. A camera inspection documents the actual condition, works on a septic property too, and is added to the same visit.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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