Conway 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 Conway 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 Conway 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 Conway 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 reportConway Township housing stock
Conway Township has roughly 1,238 housing units and about 98% of them are single-family detached. The year a house went up decides more about what an inspection turns up than almost anything else about it, which is why it is where we start rather than where we finish.
More of it dates from the 1990s than from any other decade — 397 homes, roughly 32% of the town. At 98% single-family it is almost entirely detached houses, so the inspection is nearly always of a whole building rather than one unit inside one.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $266,400. 96% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
This is not a forecast for any one address. It is where a Conway Township home inspector starts in a home of this age — and whatever we actually find, it goes in the report with photographs.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Conway Township was built
14% of homes here run on utility gas, and 141 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 708 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
There is one number worth checking here before you do anything else, and it is not on the listing.
Conway Township’s published residential tax rate is not a single figure but a range, and the range is wide: from roughly 22.86 to 34.86 per thousand dollars of taxable value on the homestead rate, and from about 40.59 to 52.86 on the non-homestead rate.
That is a twelve-point spread across one township. Most townships we cover publish a spread of four to six points. It means two otherwise identical houses in Conway Township can carry materially different annual tax bills depending purely on where in the township they sit.
So before you build a budget around a purchase here, get the actual rate for the specific parcel rather than working from a mid-point or from what a comparable property nearby pays. It is a straightforward question for the township or the county, and getting it wrong is expensive every single year you own the house.
Beyond that, Conway is a substantially agricultural township — level to gently rolling terrain supporting crops and grazing, with densely forested areas and a few lakes and streams. It is 98% detached housing.
One piece of housekeeping: the township hall has a Fowlerville mailing address, but Fowlerville is a separate village. A Fowlerville postal address does not mean a property is in the village.
Before you buy
The tax rate
The county’s community profile for Conway Township publishes the 2025 residential millage as a range rather than a figure, and the width of that range is what makes it worth writing about.
On a purchase, the tax bill is usually the second largest recurring cost after the mortgage, and it is one people estimate rather than establish. In most communities that is fine, because the rate barely moves across the municipality. Here it moves a great deal.
We are not going to explain what drives the variation, because the profile does not say and we are not going to guess at it. What we will say is that the practical step is simple: ask the township or the county assessor for the actual millage that applies to the specific parcel, and use that figure.
Ask for two other things while you are there. First, the current taxable value rather than the sale price, because in Michigan a sale can change what the property is taxed on. Second, whether any special assessments apply to the parcel — those are separate from the millage, appear on the tax bill, and transfer with the property.
None of this is what a home inspection covers. We raise it because it is the single most consequential piece of local research on this particular township, and because a report that tells you a roof has five years left is a great deal more useful when you also know what the house actually costs to hold.
The housing
Conway Township’s housing has one of the emptiest middles we have come across. Just 82 units were built across the whole of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Then 147 in the 1970s, 397 in the 1990s and 345 in the 2000s, alongside 139 units predating 1940.
So the two houses you are most likely to look at here are a pre-war farmhouse or something from the 1990s or 2000s, and they need entirely different inspections.
The 1990s and 2000s houses are now twenty to thirty-five 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. Failed seals in double glazing appear as clouding or deposits between the panes, and we note them individually. Decks built with those houses need ledger connections, flashing, fasteners and post bases genuinely examined rather than glanced at.
On the 139 pre-1940 houses the questions go back much further: electrical rebuilt in stages by different hands across eighty years or more, plumbing renewed in part rather than in whole with material transitions at the joins, several generations of roof covering, and heating equipment several replacements from the original. Foundations of that era are typically stone or early block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how it was originally built.
On agricultural property, outbuildings deserve proper attention rather than a glance. Barns, pole buildings, detached garages and workshops frequently carry their own electrical supply, their own roof and structural questions, and are often where informal work has accumulated over the years.
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.
Getting things done
The township office opens Tuesday and Wednesday during the day, which is about twelve hours a week. That is a planning constraint rather than a problem, but it is one to build into a purchase.
The sensible approach is to write down everything you need from the township before you go — the millage for the parcel, whether any special assessments apply, permit history, zoning questions, and how the property handles water and waste — and ask it all at once rather than discovering the questions one at a time across three weeks.
One genuinely useful thing the township offers is notary services. Anybody who has been through a property transaction knows how often a document needs notarising at short notice, and knowing there is somewhere local that does it is worth remembering.
The township publishes a fee schedule, zoning forms and other township forms through its website, along with burn permit and cemetery information. We have not read the fee schedule or the zoning forms and will not describe what they require.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and does not assess zoning compliance. What it does is establish what is actually on the property and what condition it is in, so the questions you take to a two-day-a-week office are short and specific. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, while you still have room to act on what it says.
Water and waste
The township publishes nothing about water supply or waste water. On a heavily agricultural township that is 98% detached houses, it would be easy to assume every property is on a well and a septic system, and easy to be wrong about a specific address.
So get it in writing for the parcel you are buying, 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 on rural property it needs arranging early because it takes its own time.
A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation, and is worth repeating after any well repair. On agricultural land in particular, testing is not a formality.
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.
Surface water matters more on a septic property than most buyers expect. A drainfield working in ground that is also receiving every downspout and a sump discharge is being asked to do two jobs at once, and on level to gently rolling ground the water does not always have anywhere obvious to go.
Drainage
The county describes the township as predominantly level to gently rolling, with densely forested areas and a few lakes and streams. That mix produces two different drainage problems depending which part of it a property sits in.
On level ground there is very little natural fall to work with, so small changes — a raised bed, a new drive, a patio laid level with a doorway — can be enough to hold water against a wall. On wooded ground, gutters are the recurring issue: a gutter that fills with leaves every fall is a gutter that overflows at the wall through the winter.
We record where the downspouts terminate and whether they carry water clear of the walls, where any sump pump discharges and whether there is a backup arrangement, and how the ground falls away from the building. We also report the condition and apparent performance of gutters and evidence of overflow.
On a rural lot with a long drive we 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.
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 139 houses predating 1940, it may have been in the ground eighty years or more. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Conway 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 level ground a belly matters more than it would elsewhere, because there is less fall available to carry waste past a low spot.
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.
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 Conway Township.
Local information from Livingston County — Conway Township community profile, including the 2025 millage range · Conway Township — township website, forms and fee schedule · Conway Township — apply for a permit · Conway Township — contact the township. 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 Conway 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
Because it varies across the township — and here the range is unusually wide, roughly twelve points on the homestead rate. Two otherwise identical houses can carry materially different annual bills depending purely on where in the township they sit.
Get the actual millage for the specific parcel from the township or the county assessor rather than working from a mid-point or from what a nearby property pays. Then budget on that figure.
The current taxable value rather than the sale price, because in Michigan a sale can change what a property is taxed on. And whether any special assessments apply — those are separate from the millage, appear on the tax bill, and transfer with the property.
Not necessarily. The township hall itself has a Fowlerville mailing address, but Fowlerville is a separate village with its own authorities. Confirm which municipality an address actually sits in.
Tuesday and Wednesday during the day — about twelve hours a week. Write down everything you need before you go and ask it in one visit rather than discovering the questions one at a time.
Most likely one of the 742 units built between 1990 and 2009, or one of the 139 farmhouses predating 1940. Only 82 houses were built across the whole of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, so there is very little in between.
Yes. A house from the mid-1990s is thirty years old, which is exactly when the first full round of replacements falls due: original roof coverings, water heaters on their second or third, and furnaces and condensers at the point where the next failure means replacement.
Yes, and level ground is part of the reason. A belly in the line matters more where there is less fall to carry waste past a low spot. On a septic property it also covers the run between the house and the tank, which a septic evaluation does not examine. A camera inspection is added to the same visit.
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