Hadley 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 Hadley 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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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 Hadley Township and across Lapeer 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 Hadley 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 reportHadley Township housing stock
Hadley Township has roughly 1,770 housing units and about 99% of them are single-family detached. Housing that went up mostly in one era has mostly one era’s problems — which is genuinely useful to know before you buy, because it tells you what to look at first.
Most of it went up in the 1990s — 422 homes, around 24% of the town. At 99% 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 $343,800. 96% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Hadley Township home inspector starts looking in a home of this age, and what we photograph and write up either way.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Hadley Township was built
49% 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 536 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Hadley Township is almost entirely detached houses — 99% of its roughly 1,770 units — on rural Lapeer County land. A good number of buyers here are buying acreage as much as a building, and that is where the township’s most useful published detail comes in.
Splitting a parcel here is not one application. The township publishes four separate parcel division forms, and each goes to a different body: a parcel division application to the township, a land division and access review to the county road commission, a land split service application to the utility, and a land division tax payment certification from the county treasurer.
That is four approvals from four organizations, and any one of them can stop a split. The road commission is looking at access, the utility at whether service can be provided, and the treasurer simply at whether the taxes are paid.
So if part of why you are buying is the intention to divide the land — for a family member, for a future sale, for a second building site — establish that it is actually possible before you commit, not after. It is a genuinely common assumption and a genuinely common disappointment.
The housing itself is mostly late twentieth century: 1,023 of those units were built between 1970 and 1999, with the 1990s the largest single decade. There is also a small older core of 211 units predating 1940.
One scheduling note: the township office is closed on Mondays.
Before you buy
Dividing land
The township’s forms page gives parcel division its own category, which tells you how often the question comes up here.
The four documents in it are worth understanding as a sequence rather than a pile. The parcel division application is the township’s own. The county road commission’s land division and access review asks whether the resulting parcels can be safely and legally accessed from the road — which on a rural township with long frontages and ditches is not automatic. The utility’s land split service application asks whether power can actually be brought to a new parcel. And the county treasurer certifies that the taxes on the land are paid before anything is divided.
We are naming those bodies rather than describing their criteria, because we have not read the forms and the requirements are not ours to summarize. But the shape of the process is the useful part: four independent yes answers, obtained from four places.
For a buyer, the practical advice is to treat a possible land division as a condition to investigate rather than a right you are acquiring. Ask the township first, then the road commission about access, because access is the one that most often turns out to be the obstacle.
None of this is what a home inspection covers. We mention it because on a township that is 99% detached houses on land, the land is frequently half the purchase, and this is the part nobody explains at a viewing.
The housing
The largest group here is the 422 units from the 1990s, with 348 from the 1970s, 253 from the 2000s and 219 from the 1980s. There are 211 units predating 1940 and very little from the 1940s and 1950s.
The 1990s and 2000s houses are at the age where the first full round of replacements arrives: original roof coverings reaching the end of their service life, water heaters on their second, and furnaces and air conditioning condensers at the point where the next failure means replacement rather than repair. Decks built with those houses need ledger connections, flashing, fasteners and post bases genuinely examined.
The 1970s stock is a different exercise. Service panels of that era are often at or past the point where an upgrade is worth considering, and fifty years of circuits added in stages is normal. Plumbing has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving material transitions at the joins. Roofs are on a second or third covering, and heating equipment is two or three generations from the original.
On the 211 pre-1940 houses the questions go back further again: electrical rebuilt across eighty years or more, several generations of roof covering, and foundations of stone or early block whose condition depends far more on water management around the building than on original construction.
Rural property comes with outbuildings, and at 99% detached housing they are common here. Pole barns, 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. They are worth including in the scope rather than leaving to a later surprise.
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.
Services
The township’s about page sets out an arrangement worth understanding before you move somewhere rural.
Police protection is provided by both the county sheriff’s department and the Michigan State Police, rather than by a township force. Fire is handled by the Hadley fire department, and the township publishes both a burn permit and an address marker form under its fire department forms.
That address marker form is worth taking up. On a rural township with long drives set back from the road, being findable is not a small thing, and a property that is hard to locate in daylight is considerably harder at two in the morning in February.
On schools, the township is served by four separate districts. More than half of it falls within the Lapeer district, the western portion within Goodrich, most of the southwest corner within Brandon, and a small area of the southeast corner within Oxford. On a township divided four ways, confirming which district a specific address falls in is worth doing rather than assuming from the postal address.
The township also runs a library branch, a cemetery, parks and an old town hall available for community rental, which for a township of this size is a reasonable amount of local provision.
Permits
Hadley Township handles its own zoning, with a planning commission and a zoning board of appeals that hears questions arising under the zoning ordinance, interprets the zoning maps, hears appeals from administrative decisions and decides variance requests.
Construction is different. The township links to an outside construction code authority for building and trade permits and inspections, so a complete property history means asking in two places and being clear which functions each covers.
On a township where more than half the housing was built between 1970 and 1999, that construction record is worth having. Houses of that age have had furnaces replaced, electrical panels upgraded and additions built, and the question is whether that work was permitted and inspected.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and cannot tell you whether a permit was pulled. What it does is tell you what was actually done to a property and how well, so the two records requests you make are targeted. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, while you still have room to act on it.
Remember the office is closed on Mondays — the reverse of the more common Friday closure, and an easy assumption to get wrong when a contingency deadline is approaching.
Water and waste
The township publishes nothing at all about water supply or waste water. There is no water department page, no sewer information and no guidance on wells or septic systems.
On a township that is 99% detached houses on rural land, it would be easy to assume most properties are on a well and a septic system, and easy to be wrong about a specific address. So we are not going to assert it. Get the answer in writing for the parcel you are buying.
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.
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.
Outside, we report 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 foundation. On a rural lot with a long drive we also 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.
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 1970s house that pipe has been in the ground half a century, under a lot whose trees have had exactly that long to mature. On one of the 211 houses predating 1940, considerably longer. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Hadley 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 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.
That gap matters on rural property. A septic evaluation looks at the tank and the field; the run between the house and the tank is nobody’s job by default, and on a wooded lot with fifty-year-old trees it is exactly where roots go.
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 Hadley Township.
Local information from Hadley Township — forms, including the four parcel division forms · Hadley Township — about the township: services, schools and public safety · Hadley Township — zoning and ordinances · Hadley Township — contact and office hours. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Hadley 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!!
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Questions
Do not assume so. The township publishes four separate parcel division forms going to four different bodies: a parcel division application to the township, an access review to the county road commission, a service application to the utility, and a tax payment certification from the county treasurer.
Access, in our experience. The county road commission’s review asks whether the resulting parcels can be safely and legally reached from the road, and on rural frontage with ditches that is not automatic. Ask the township first, then the road commission.
It depends where in the township you are. Four districts serve different parts: more than half falls within Lapeer, the western portion within Goodrich, most of the southwest corner within Brandon, and a small area of the southeast corner within Oxford. Confirm the specific address.
Police protection comes from both the county sheriff’s department and the Michigan State Police rather than a township force. Fire is the Hadley fire department, which also issues burn permits and an address marker form.
Because being findable is not a small thing when a drive is set back from the road. A property that is hard to locate in daylight is considerably harder at two in the morning in February, and the fire department publishes the form for exactly that reason.
An outside construction code authority handles building and trade permits and inspections; the township keeps zoning. A complete property history means asking in two places and being clear which functions each covers.
Ask, and get it in writing. The township publishes nothing at all about water or waste water, so we will not assume. Take those questions to the county health department and arrange any septic evaluation and water test early.
Yes, and at 99% detached housing on rural land they are common and worth including rather than leaving to a later surprise. They often carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions, and are frequently where informal work has accumulated.
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