Grand Blanc Township, Michigan
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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 Grand Blanc 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.
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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 Grand Blanc Township and across Genesee 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 Grand Blanc 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 reportGrand Blanc Township housing stock
Grand Blanc Township has roughly 17,054 housing units and about 62% 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 2000s, which accounts for 3,486 homes, around 20% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $217,000. There are around 1,339 manufactured and mobile homes in Grand Blanc Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Grand Blanc 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 Grand Blanc Township was built
80% of homes here run on utility gas, and 30 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 193 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Grand Blanc Township publishes something no other municipality we have researched does: the full test for when a city or township is actually liable for a sewer backup, including the circumstances in which it is not liable at all.
One line in it is worth reading twice. Under Michigan’s Public Act 222, a backup does not count as a claimable event if an obstruction in your own sewer lead was half or more of the cause. And the Township is equally direct about the boundary: municipalities do not have the legal authority or obligation to repair a private sewer lead.
In other words, the pipe running from your house to the main is yours, its condition is your problem, and if it is what caused the flood then it is entirely your problem. That is the clearest argument for looking inside it before you buy that we have found on any city website.
The housing here is comparatively recent for this part of the state: of about 17,054 units, 3,486 were built in the 2000s and 2,882 in the 1990s, with 3,176 from the 1970s and 2,387 from the 1960s. Around 44% went up in 1990 or later, and roughly 62% is single-family detached.
Before you buy
The clearest sewer explanation in the county
Public Act 222 is Michigan law rather than a Grand Blanc invention, but the Township explains it more fully than anyone else, and the detail is worth having before you own a basement here.
The Township sets out the five things a claimant has to prove on its sewer backup page: that the agency owned or operated the sewage disposal system; that the system had a construction, design, maintenance, operation or repair defect; that the agency knew or should reasonably have known about it; that it failed to take reasonable steps in a reasonable time to fix it; and that the defect was 50 percent or more of the cause — a substantial proximate cause.
Then it sets out when a backup is not a claimable event at all. If any one of these was half or more of the cause, there is no event: an obstruction in a sewer lead not caused by a government agency; a connection to the sewage disposal system including a sump system, building drains, a surface drain, a gutter or a downspout; or an act of war or terrorism.
Read those two carve-outs together and they describe the two things a buyer can actually do something about. The first is the condition of the buried lateral. The second is what has been connected to the sewer over the years — a question we have found other municipalities answering from the engineering side, where footing drains and sump pumps have historically ended up plumbed into sanitary systems.
On the timing, the Township describes PA 222 as prohibiting the filing of a civil action for 45 days after written notice of an event, so that the event can be investigated and a claim potentially resolved before litigation. Other municipalities describe the same 45 days as the deadline for filing a written claim. We are reporting what Grand Blanc Township publishes, not advising on which reading governs — that is a question for a lawyer, and it is one worth asking quickly rather than slowly.
What the Township checks
It is worth being clear about how far municipal oversight reaches, because buyers routinely assume it reaches further than it does.
The Township’s Code Enforcement Division sits within Planning and Zoning and enforces the general ordinances — junk, trash and debris, vehicles, weeds, signs, illegal structures and certain activities. It also requires all complaints to be submitted in writing before it will investigate, which is a reasonable policy and a slow one if you are hoping something gets dealt with before your closing.
What that division does not do is look at the roof structure, the electrical service, the heating and cooling equipment or the plumbing on a buyer’s behalf. That is a buyer’s inspection, and on a township where the largest decades are the 1970s and the 2000s it covers a wide range of building ages — a 1975 house whose systems have all turned over at least once, and a 2005 house now twenty years old and coming due for its first round.
We do not name components from a build year. We report what is installed, its condition, what is at or past the end of its service life, and what could not be seen.
Permits and records
The Township runs an online permitting and review portal, and it is worth ten minutes before you commit.
Its permitting portal handles applications, review comments and inspection scheduling, and the Township requires contractors to hold a current registration with it and to link that registration to their portal account before they can apply online. If you are lining up work for after closing, that registration requirement is worth confirming with your contractor rather than discovering on the day.
The Township also publishes online property information and a water and sewer network map, and links out to the Genesee County Drain Commission’s water and waste services for the county-level picture.
The standard caution applies to all of it, as it does everywhere: a permit on file does not establish that work is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that work was done badly. The record tells you what was declared. An inspection tells you what is actually there.
The buried line
Almost everything on this page comes back to one component, because the Township itself keeps pointing at it.
On a house from the 1970s the lateral running from the building to the sewer main has been in the ground fifty years or more, and on a 1990s house around thirty — long enough in either case for roots to find a joint, for ground movement to displace a section, or for a repair to have been made that nobody now remembers. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Grand Blanc Township leads 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 — and it is added to the same visit rather than booked separately. Given what the Township says about who owns that pipe and what an obstruction in it does to a claim, it is a straightforward piece of due diligence here.
Alongside it, commercial building inspections follow the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property, and radon testing or mold inspection and testing can be added to a residential or commercial visit.
Local information from Grand Blanc Township — sewer backup and flooding, Public Act 222 · Grand Blanc Township — Code Enforcement · Grand Blanc Township — online permits and review process. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Genesee 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 · Genesee County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Grand Blanc 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
Outstanding precision and attention to detail! Helps being able to make a truly informed decision about a home! Also, they are very veteran-friendly! No complaints here!
Desmond SheppardFlint, MINoah Scott was very thorough and explaining things to us, especially in regard to a possible mold problem.
Claudette GranvilleFlint, 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
You are, and the Township says so directly: municipalities do not have the legal authority or obligation to repair a private sewer lead. That means its condition, its blockages and its repairs are the property owner’s, and it is the single strongest reason to know what is inside it before you buy rather than after.
Only when a fairly demanding test is met. Under Public Act 222, as the Township sets it out, a claimant must prove the agency owned or operated the system, that it had a construction, design, maintenance, operation or repair defect, that the agency knew or should have known, that it failed to take reasonable steps in a reasonable time to fix it, and that the defect was 50 percent or more of the cause. That is what the Township publishes; it is not legal advice, and a lawyer is the right person to ask about a specific event.
The Township lists three circumstances in which a backup is not a sewage disposal system event if any of them was half or more of the cause: an obstruction in a sewer lead not caused by a government agency; a connection to the sewage disposal system including a sump system, building drains, a surface drain, a gutter or a downspout; or an act of war or terrorism. The first two are the ones a buyer can actually investigate in advance.
Because a connection to the sewer — including a sump system, building drains, surface drain, gutter or downspout — can defeat a backup claim if it was half or more of the cause. Other municipalities in this region describe the same issue from the engineering side: footing drains and sump pumps have in places historically ended up plumbed into sanitary systems. Establishing what a specific property has is a question for the Township, and what is visibly installed is something we record on the inspection.
Move quickly and take advice. The Township describes PA 222 as prohibiting the filing of a civil action for 45 days after written notice of an event, so that the event can be investigated and a claim potentially resolved first. Other municipalities in this region describe the same 45 days as the deadline for filing a written claim. We are reporting what each publishes rather than advising on which reading governs — that is a lawyer’s question, and one to ask in days rather than weeks.
No. They are separate governments with separate departments and separate ordinances. A rule, fee or process that applies on one side of that line does not necessarily apply on the other, so confirm which one an address falls in before relying on anything you have read about either.
A wide spread, and newer than most of Genesee County. Of about 17,054 housing units, 3,486 were built in the 2000s, 3,176 in the 1970s, 2,882 in the 1990s and 2,387 in the 1960s, with roughly 44% going up in 1990 or later. Around 62% is single-family detached. A 2005 house is now twenty years old and coming due for its first round of replacements; a 1975 house has been through at least one already.
Here more than most places, because the Township has spelled out why. It states that the private sewer lead is not the municipality’s to repair, and that an obstruction in it can defeat a backup claim entirely. No visual inspection sees inside that pipe, and on a 1970s house it has been in the ground fifty years or more. We will 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.
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