Concord, 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 Concord home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
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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 Concord and across Jackson 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 Concord 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 reportConcord housing stock
Concord has roughly 478 housing units and about 81% 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 182 homes, around 38% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $139,100.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Concord 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 Concord was built
91% of homes here run on utility gas.
Local knowledge
Concord runs on a scale that is easy to describe: the village clerk handles community center and pavilion rentals, utility billing, and any permits needed for the village — and the way you reach all of that is by email.
That is not a criticism. It is genuinely simpler than a lot of the arrangements we come across, and it means one message can cover several questions. But it does change how you should approach it: write one clear email, be specific about the address and what you intend to do, and attach whatever drawings or details you already have. A vague inquiry to a one-person counter gets a vague answer.
What the village does not publish is who actually carries out building inspections. There is no building department page and no named inspector anywhere on the site. So the first thing to establish, before you plan any work, is not just who issues the permit but who inspects it — and we are not going to guess on your behalf.
The other thing worth knowing is about water. The village’s own description of a normal day for its three-person public works crew includes fixing water main breaks in both the winter list and the summer list. Main breaks are part of the routine here, which is worth knowing before you are surprised by an interruption.
The housing is old: about 182 of roughly 478 units predate 1940, another 72 date from the 1940s, and the entire 1960s produced seven houses. A second cluster of 73 arrived in the 1990s.
Before you buy
Getting answers
The village’s clerk page is short and clear: email the clerk for community center rental, pavilion rental, utility billing, and any permits needed for the village.
Because that single route covers everything, it is worth using well. Put the property address in the subject line. Say what you own or are buying and what you want to do. Ask the specific questions rather than requesting general information — what permit does this need, who inspects it, what is the permit history on this address, and what is the utility account status.
That last one is worth including on any purchase anywhere, and it costs nothing to ask.
What we could not establish is who performs the inspections once a permit is issued. That is not unusual in a village this size, but it is not something to assume, so ask directly. The answer determines lead times, and lead times determine whether a project fits your timetable.
A home inspection is not a permit search or a code inspection, and we do not present it as one. What it does is establish what is physically present and in what condition, and flag work that looks as though it was done without the benefit of a permit — which is what turns a general email into a specific one the clerk can actually answer.
A buyer’s inspection is the usual starting point, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard are available where a building is commercial.
Water
The public works page is one of the more human department descriptions we have read. It explains that the crew exists to ensure the water supply is safe and the sewage is treated properly, and then sets out what a normal day actually looks like in each half of the year.
In fall and winter: salting, sanding and ploughing the streets, mechanical work on the village fleet, collecting leaves, fixing water main breaks, construction work on village buildings and a great deal of paperwork. In spring and summer: mowing and trimming the parks, cleaning park bathrooms, building sidewalks, collecting brush from the curb, fixing water main breaks again, and more paperwork.
Main breaks appear in both lists, which tells you they are a normal part of the year here rather than an event. We are not going to draw conclusions about the age or condition of the distribution system from that — a prose description is not a condition assessment, and we have not read one. What we would say is that if you are buying on a particular street, asking the office about service interruptions there is a fair and easy question.
For an inspection, the practical consequence is about what you might see in the house. After a main break or a repair, discolored water is common and usually clears by running the cold taps. But sediment stirred up in the mains also settles in water heaters and loads up filters and softeners, so we look at the age and condition of that equipment, and we run fixtures under load rather than testing a single tap.
The crew is three people covering water, sewage, parks, roads, sidewalks and buildings, so set expectations accordingly on anything non-urgent. Their recent project list — a mill pond park, volleyball courts, a tee-ball diamond, a pavilion roof, a community center remodel — suggests a village that gets a lot done with very little.
The housing
With around 182 units predating 1940 and another 72 from the 1940s, more than half of Concord was built before 1950. Then almost nothing: the 1960s produced seven houses in the entire village. A later cluster of 73 arrived in the 1990s.
So the typical inspection here is an older-house inspection, and the findings follow the usual pattern for that stock.
Electrical systems have usually been rebuilt in stages by different hands across eighty years or more. We look for mixed wiring types meeting in the same box, ungrounded receptacles, undersized or overfilled panels, overfused circuits, and connections made in places that were never intended to be permanent. Original service capacity is frequently the practical limit on what a modern household wants to run.
Plumbing tends to have been renewed in part rather than in whole, so material transitions where old meets new are where problems concentrate. Original galvanized supply, where it survives, corrodes from the inside and shows as reduced flow and discolored water long before anything leaks — which on a system that sees main breaks is worth distinguishing carefully from a supply-side cause.
Roof coverings will be several generations deep. Heating equipment is typically several replacements from the original. Foundations of that era are usually stone or early block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how they were originally built.
The 73 units from the 1990s are the opposite exercise, now thirty to thirty-five years old and arriving at a first full round of replacements. Radon testing and mold inspection and testing can be added to any visit.
Drainage
On housing this age, how water is managed around the building is usually the largest single factor in how the foundation has fared, and it is almost always the cheapest thing to put right.
We record 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 every elevation. On a house eighty years old the original arrangement has usually been altered more than once, and grading that was right at the start has had decades of landscaping and settlement since.
Inside, we look for what past water has left 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 nearly always a story about something that happened once, and it is always worth asking the seller about directly.
A finished lower level deserves a careful look rather than a quick one, because finishing is very often what conceals the evidence of what water has done before.
The village crew collects leaves in fall and brush from the curb in spring and summer, so seasonal yard waste has a route — worth confirming the timing in your first year rather than assuming.
The buried line
The public works crew fixes water main breaks, which are the village’s pipes. The line running out from your building is not, and it never will be. It belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
Under a pre-1940 house — nearly four properties in ten here — that pipe is often the oldest untouched component on the whole property. We will not name a material from a build year, because nothing published establishes what Concord lines 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 in there: roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. In an old platted village with mature street trees, roots are the common finding and they give no warning until the day the drains back up.
With a three-person crew covering the whole village, anything that turns out to be on the private side is entirely yours to arrange, on your own timetable and at your own cost. That is a further reason to know the condition of the line before you own it rather than after.
A camera inspection is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately, 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 Concord.
Local information from Village of Concord — Department of Public Works · Village of Concord — Clerk, permits and utility billing · Village of Concord — community center · Village of Concord — village history. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Concord 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
Justin Frey was my Inspector. He was very nice, very professional, and made sure I had all my questions answered. If I had a business, I definitely would hire him!
Tonya HConcord, MII 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
Email the village clerk. The village states the clerk handles community center rental, pavilion rental, utility billing and any permits needed for the village.
We could not establish it. There is no building department page and no named inspector on the village site, so ask the clerk directly — and ask before you plan work, because the answer determines lead times.
The property address in the subject line, what you intend to do, and specific questions: what permit is needed, who inspects it, what the permit history shows for the address, and whether the utility account is clear.
The village lists fixing water main breaks in both its fall/winter and its spring/summer description of a normal day. We will not draw conclusions about the system from a prose description, but it is fair to ask the office about interruptions on a particular street.
Because sediment stirred up by a break or a repair settles in water heaters and loads filters and softeners. We look at the age and condition of that equipment and run fixtures under load rather than testing one tap.
More than half of Concord was built before 1950 — about 182 of roughly 478 units predate 1940 and 72 date from the 1940s. The entire 1960s produced seven houses.
Three people covering the water supply, sewage treatment, parks, roads, sidewalks and village buildings, plus ploughing, leaf collection and brush pickup. Set expectations accordingly on anything non-urgent.
Yes. The line under a pre-1940 house is often the oldest thing on the property, street trees make roots the common finding, and anything on the private side is entirely yours to arrange. A camera inspection goes on the same visit.
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