Eastpointe, 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 Eastpointe 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 Eastpointe and across Macomb 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 an Eastpointe 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 reportEastpointe housing stock
Eastpointe has roughly 14,050 housing units and about 90% 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 1950s: 6,808 homes, about 48% of everything standing today. At 90% 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 $115,100.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist an Eastpointe 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 Eastpointe was built
90% of homes here run on utility gas, and 15 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 156 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Eastpointe is a city of postwar houses on an unusually short municipal clock, and if you are buying anything that is let, the timings matter more here than almost anywhere.
The housing is uniform. Of roughly 14,050 units, about 48% were built in the 1950s, with another 16% in the 1940s and 12% before 1940, a median build year of 1954 and around 90% single-family detached. Nearly everything is a whole house, and most of it is seventy years old.
When that much of a city is the same age, the build year distinguishes almost nothing between one property and another. Seventy years of separate decisions about roofs, furnaces, wiring and windows do that instead, and only looking at the house establishes which.
The rental rules here are the local wrinkle worth knowing, and they run on a shorter cycle than anything else in the region.
Before you buy
Rentals
Eastpointe’s rental rules contain two features we have not found together anywhere else in this region.
The first is the pace. The Building Department manages registration and inspection of all non-owner-occupied residential properties, and all rental properties must be registered and inspected every two years from the date of application. Most communities around here run a three-year cycle; one runs five. Two is short, and the City warns, on its forms and ordinances pages, that failing to register or maintain compliance before a certificate expires may result in additional fees.
The second is more unusual still. Where a property is certified at the time of sale, the City says the certificate may transfer to the new owner — provided the new owner registers the property within 14 days of purchase. That is the opposite of how several neighboring cities handle it, where certificates are expressly non-transferable and a fresh inspection happens at every change of hands. Note the City’s own wording is may, and the fourteen days run from purchase, so if this route matters to your plans, confirm it with the Building Department before closing rather than assuming.
Two more requirements worth knowing: owners and property managers must complete a one-time owner or manager registration, separate from registering the property itself; and the furnace or boiler must be inspected by a licensed contractor as part of certification. Tenants cannot occupy a rental property until the City has certified it.
Two different sign-offs
This distinction comes up in every community that asks for a heating certification, and it is worth being precise about.
Eastpointe requires the furnace or boiler to be inspected by a licensed contractor for rental certification, and publishes a sample form for it. What that contractor is answering is whether the equipment is safe to operate. It is a safety sign-off at a moment in time.
An inspection answers a broader question: what condition the equipment is in, how old it is, how the installation looks, whether the venting is right, how it performs on the day, and roughly how much service life is left. A furnace can be certified safe and still be within a year or two of replacement. On a housing stock with a median build year of 1954, that gap between the two answers is exactly where a buyer gets caught out.
A home buyer inspection covers the heating alongside the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, plumbing and the accessible interior, photographed and written up with how urgent each finding is.
Seventy years on
With about 48% of Eastpointe built in the 1950s and 90% of it single-family detached, this is a city of whole houses that arrived together and have aged separately.
A house of that age has had a roof, a furnace, a water heater and windows replaced at least once or is overdue on all of them, and its electrical service and supply plumbing have had seventy years to be extended, altered or partly renewed. We will not reason from the build year to what is installed, because on housing this uniform the year tells you nothing your neighbor’s house would not.
Water management is where older houses show their age most visibly, and it is entirely observable. We assess accessible grading around the building, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, and sump equipment where present — documented as we find it rather than as originally built. After several owners and several rounds of landscaping, those are often different things.
Radon testing and mold inspection and testing can be added to the same appointment, and commercial building inspections follow the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property.
The buried line
On a housing stock this uniform and this old, the private sewer lateral is one of the few things that genuinely varies between otherwise identical houses.
It runs underground from the house to the public system and no visual inspection can see inside it. Seventy years is ample time for tree roots to find a joint, for ground movement to displace a section, or for repairs to have been made that nobody now remembers. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Eastpointe laterals are generally made of.
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 street of houses that all look alike, it is one of the few ways to find out how this one differs. It is added to the same visit.
Local information from City of Eastpointe — rental property registration and inspection · City of Eastpointe — Building Department · City of Eastpointe — forms and ordinances. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Macomb County
Zone 3 is the lowest of the three EPA categories — the predicted average indoor level across the county is below 2 pCi/L. So Eastpointe is not where the state’s worst readings turn up, and we would rather say that plainly than imply otherwise.
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 · Macomb County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Eastpointe 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
Mitch did our inspection for the sale of our home and he was professional, efficient and friendly. The report was sent to me and my agent in a timely fashion and I appreciated how quickly the appointment was made and everything was finished! Would recommend to others.
Kendra AllenRoseville, 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
Every two years, which is shorter than anywhere else in this region we have looked at. The City states that all rental properties must be registered and inspected every two years from the date of application, and warns that failing to register or maintain compliance before a certificate expires may result in additional fees. Most neighboring communities run a three-year cycle and one runs five, so a buyer coming from elsewhere should not assume the familiar timing applies here.
It may, and that is unusual. The City states that if a property is certified at the time of sale, the certificate may transfer to the new owner provided the new owner registers the property within 14 days of purchase. Several neighboring cities take the opposite approach, treating certificates as expressly non-transferable with a fresh inspection at every change of hands. Note the City’s wording is may, and the fourteen days run from purchase — so if this matters to your plans, confirm it with the Building Department before closing.
It must be inspected by a licensed contractor as part of certification, and the City publishes a sample form for the purpose. Worth understanding what that establishes: a licensed contractor signing off a furnace is answering whether it is safe to operate at that moment. It is not a statement about condition or remaining service life. On a housing stock with a median build year of 1954, a furnace can be certified safe and still be close to replacement — which is the question an inspection answers.
Uniformly postwar. Of roughly 14,050 housing units, about 48% were built in the 1950s, with another 16% in the 1940s and 12% before 1940, giving a median build year of 1954, and around 90% are single-family detached. Nearly half the city arrived in one decade. The practical consequence is that the build year distinguishes almost nothing — seventy years of separate maintenance decisions do that, and only an inspection of the actual house establishes which.
We found no residential point-of-sale requirement for an owner-occupied sale. The City’s inspection regime covers non-owner-occupied residential property — registration and inspection every two years, with tenants unable to occupy until the property is certified. Confirm the position for a specific address with the Building Department, and in the meantime plan on your own inspection being the one examining the house on your behalf.
On this housing stock it is worth considering, and there is a particular reason here. When nearly half a city was built in one decade and 90% of it is detached houses, the properties look alike and the visible differences are small — but the buried lateral is one thing that genuinely varies between them. It has been in the ground around seventy years, no visual inspection can see inside it, and we would not guess a material from a build year. Putting a camera down the line documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same appointment.
Yes. You can book an Eastpointe home inspector with us seven days a week, and we cover the rest of Macomb County too.
A home inspection report reaches you within 24 hours. Commercial buildings are 24 to 72 hours depending on size, a radon result comes at the end of the 48-hour test, and mold samples come back from the lab in one to three business days.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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