Deerfield, 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 Deerfield 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 Deerfield and across Lenawee 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 Deerfield 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 reportDeerfield housing stock
Deerfield has roughly 388 housing units and about 89% 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 115 homes, around 30% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $144,600. 87% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Deerfield 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 Deerfield was built
91% of homes here run on utility gas.
Local knowledge
Deerfield publishes more about how work gets permitted than most villages ten times its size, and the striking thing is how many people are involved. The village’s departments page names five separate inspectors: a building inspector, and then individually named electrical, heating, mechanical and plumbing inspectors, each with their own telephone number.
That is a genuinely useful thing to have in front of you, because it means a project touching several trades has several named people attached to it rather than one office that may or may not pass a message along. It also means you should expect to make several calls, and to keep a list.
The submission route is worth noting too. The village asks for the building permit application to be submitted to the village office by fax, or by email to a published address. That works perfectly well in a village of this size, but it has one practical consequence: neither route gives you an automatic receipt. Confirming that an application actually arrived, and arrived complete, is on you.
There is also a construction board of appeals and a planning commission with named members, alongside published building permit and zoning compliance permit applications and a building department fee schedule. We have not opened the fee schedule and will not quote figures from it, but it is there before you commit to work.
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, and we flag work that looks as though it was done without the benefit of a permit — which on a village with five inspectors gives you a fairly precise idea of who to ring.
Before you buy
Water
The village publishes its water rates as a quarterly schedule, effective with the April 2026 billing, and it is worth reading because of how it is built rather than only for the numbers.
There are three moving parts. A billing fee, published at $3.40. A commodity charge for the water you actually use, published at $7.17 per thousand gallons. And a readiness-to-serve charge, published at $123.95 per unit per quarter, which the village also expresses as a daily rate of $1.42.
That third one is the part buyers do not expect. Readiness to serve is what it costs to have the connection there at all, and it is payable whether or not anybody turns a tap. A property standing empty between closings still accrues it. If you are buying somewhere that has been vacant, or budgeting for a period before you move in, that is a real line in the calculation rather than a rounding error.
These are the figures as published and rates move, so confirm the current position with the village. The village also publishes annual water quality data, which we have not read and will not characterize — read the village’s own copy if you want to know what the supply tested at.
What a village supply does not cover is the plumbing on the house side of the meter, which belongs to the owner. On a median 1956 house that plumbing predates the 1986 ban on lead solder in potable water lines, so we report the visible supply piping and its material where exposed, the transitions between materials, the condition of the shut-offs, how the system behaves under load, and the visible condition of the water heater. A home inspection does not include drinking water testing.
The housing
Deerfield has roughly 388 housing units, about 89% of them single-family detached, with a median build year of 1956. Housing that went up largely in one stretch tends to share one era’s problems, which is useful because it tells you what to look at first.
On mid-1950s housing the electrical system is usually the accumulated work of several decades rather than one installation: 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 1956 household rather than a modern one. We report what is actually there and photograph it either way — and in a village with its own named electrical inspector, that is a report you can act on directly.
Plumbing has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, which puts the interesting questions at the transitions where one material meets another. Heating and water heating equipment will be several replacements deep. Roof coverings will be on a second or third generation, and what was done at the flashings and penetrations each time matters more than the age of the covering.
Foundations of the period are typically block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how they were built. Where the downspouts terminate, whether there is a sump and where it discharges to, whether there is a backup arrangement, and how the ground falls away from the walls tell you more about a basement than a dry-day look at it will.
With about a tenth of the stock in something other than detached houses, we establish which situation a property is in before anything else. Outbuildings get inspected as part of the property rather than glanced at. 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
For all five inspectors the village names, none of them is looking inside the lateral running from a building out to whatever it drains to. That pipe belongs to the property, it is the owner’s to repair, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
The village runs a water operation, and we found no sewer department page alongside it, so we are not going to tell you what a particular property drains to. Confirm it in writing for the parcel you are buying.
On a median 1956 house that line is around seventy years old unless somebody has replaced it, and a replacement is rarely recorded anywhere a buyer will come across. We are not going to name a material from a build year — nothing published establishes what lines here 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. If the property turns out to be on a septic system, the camera documents the building drain out to the tank — the stretch a septic evaluation does not examine — and the evaluation itself is arranged through the county health department, on its own timetable, so it needs booking early.
It goes on the same appointment rather than a second visit, and we deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day. A buyer’s inspection covers the building; the camera covers the part nobody can see. You can read what our clients say, browse answers to common questions, see the village website, or get in touch about a specific address in Deerfield.
Local information from Village of Deerfield — departments, inspectors and permit applications · Village of Deerfield — 2026 water rates · Village of Deerfield — village website · Lenawee County — cities, townships and villages directory. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Deerfield 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
Five separately named people. The village publishes a building inspector plus individually named electrical, heating, mechanical and plumbing inspectors, each with their own telephone number.
The village asks for it to be submitted to the village office by fax, or by email to a published address. Neither route gives an automatic receipt, so confirm that it arrived and arrived complete.
Yes, the village publishes a building department fee schedule alongside its building permit and zoning compliance permit applications. We have not opened it and will not quote figures.
Three parts, as published for the April 2026 billing: a billing fee of $3.40, a commodity charge of $7.17 per thousand gallons, and a readiness-to-serve charge of $123.95 per unit per quarter, which the village also expresses as $1.42 a day.
The readiness-to-serve charge is what it costs to have the connection at all, so it accrues whether or not water is used. Worth building into your figures if a property will stand vacant between closings.
The median build year is 1956 across roughly 388 housing units, about 89% of them single-family detached. That puts the middle of the stock around seventy years old.
We will not assume. The village runs a water operation and we found no sewer department page, so confirm what a specific parcel drains to in writing.
None of the five inspectors the village names looks inside the lateral, and no visual inspection reaches into it either. A camera inspection goes on the same visit and shows what is actually there.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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