Hartland 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 Hartland Township 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.
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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 Hartland 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 Hartland 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 reportHartland Township housing stock
Hartland Township has roughly 6,023 housing units and about 78% 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 1990s, which accounts for 1,621 homes, around 27% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $330,300. 88% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 577 manufactured and mobile homes in Hartland 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 Hartland 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 Hartland Township was built
84% 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 366 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
If you go looking for Hartland Township’s building permit application, you will not find one — and that is worth understanding before you assume something is missing.
The Township publishes a complete list of its forms and permits. It contains a land use application and a residential land use checklist, site plan and planned development applications, land division, signage, special event and zoning board of appeals forms, and a zoning compliance certificate. What it does not contain is a building permit, an electrical permit, a plumbing permit or a mechanical permit.
That fits a pattern across this part of Livingston County. Of the three townships here we have written about, Genoa Township states outright that building code matters go to the county, and Brighton Township points residents to the county permit guidebook rather than running building department pages. Hartland does not say it in so many words, so we are not going to put words in its mouth — but if you are looking for building permit history on a property here, the Township and the county are both worth a call, and the county is the likelier holder.
The practical consequence is the same either way: a permit search that starts and ends at the township office will come back thin, and that thinness is about where the records live, not about what was done to the house.
The housing is comparatively new: of about 6,023 units, 1,621 date from the 1990s and 1,566 from the 2000s, with 1,064 from the 1970s. Roughly 60% was built in 1990 or later, and around 78% is single-family detached.
Before you buy
Where the records live
Permit history is one of the first things a careful buyer looks for, and in split-jurisdiction areas it is easy to look in the wrong place and draw the wrong conclusion.
The Township’s Planning Department describes itself as responsible for administering the laws, regulations and requirements pertaining to the physical development of the Township, working with the Planning Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals, and ensuring development meets township ordinances with corrective measures where it does not. It also offers something worth taking up: complimentary consultations with residents, builders, contractors and businesses about compliance.
Its published forms list is consistent with that scope — land use, site plan, land division, signage, zoning board of appeals, zoning compliance — and contains no building or trade permit applications.
So the honest advice is: ask both. The Township for zoning, land use and compliance history; the county for building permits and inspections. And when a search comes back with little on it, treat that as a question about coverage rather than an answer about the house.
That is where a buyer’s inspection does the work no record can. We report the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior as found — what is failing, what is near the end of its service life, what to plan for, and what could not be seen. On a property whose paper trail is split between two authorities, that report is the one document that covers the whole building.
Water and sewer
The Township’s Department of Public Works handles sewer and water alongside parks, street lights, sidewalks and safety paths, capital projects, township facilities and fleet. It publishes two separate after-hours emergency lines — one for drinking water issues and one for sewer and flooding — which is a sensible arrangement and worth noting before you need either.
What the Township does not publish is a split between properties on township water and sewer and properties on private wells and septic systems. In this part of Livingston County both are common, and we are not going to guess at proportions. The question has to be answered property by property, and the DPW is the place to answer it.
It matters because the two situations are genuinely different. On township service, the utility maintains the mains and you own the connection. On a private well and septic system, the wellhead, pressure tank, pump, electrical supply, tank and drainfield are all yours, with their own service lives, their own maintenance and their own testing — and that testing is not something a home inspection provides. We do not take water samples and we do not analyze them, and septic evaluation is a separate discipline with its own credentials.
What we do record is the building’s side of it: accessible grading and how the ground falls at the foundation, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, floor drains and any sump equipment, plus the accessible supply and drain plumbing and any treatment equipment installed.
Thirty years on
With 1,621 units from the 1990s and 1,566 from the 2000s, the typical inspection here is a house between twenty and thirty-five years old.
That is the age at which the first full round of replacements arrives, and it arrives together because the components went in together. The original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater have all reached or passed the end of their expected service lives on a 1996 house. Whether any of them has actually been changed is the question, and two identical-looking houses on the same road can answer it very differently.
Newer construction also has its own recurring findings, and they are not the ones people expect from an older house. Grading that settled after backfill and now falls back toward the foundation is the commonest source of water in a basement of this era. Flashing where roof geometry gets complicated, attic ventilation, deck ledger attachment, and how a finished lower level was framed, insulated and ventilated all come up regularly, along with egress from below-grade sleeping rooms.
On generous lots, which is much of this township, the water story extends past the foundation — long drives, outbuildings, swales and how the ground behaves toward the property line are all part of it.
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.
The buried line
On a property connected to township sewer, the buried lateral running from the building to the main is the one component nothing visual reaches.
A house built in 1996 has a lateral that has been in the ground thirty years, with the landscaping planted alongside it now mature enough to reach a joint. On newer construction there is a second consideration: heavy equipment, deep excavation and backfill are hard on buried pipe, and an installation defect does not announce itself for years. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Hartland Township 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 — and it is added to the same visit rather than booked separately. On a property with a septic system the question is a different one and belongs to a county evaluation rather than to us.
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 Hartland Township — Planning and Zoning · Hartland Township — forms, permits and applications · Hartland Township — Department of Public Works. 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 Hartland 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
Ask both the Township and the county. The Township’s published forms list covers land use, site plan, land division, signage, zoning board of appeals and zoning compliance — and contains no building, electrical, plumbing or mechanical permit applications. Neighboring Livingston County townships direct building code matters to the county, and Hartland’s forms list is consistent with the same arrangement, though the Township does not say so in those words. A thin search result here is about where records live, not about what was done to the house.
The physical development side. It administers the laws and regulations pertaining to development, works with the Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals, publishes and enforces ordinances, and ensures development meets township standards with corrective measures where it does not. It also offers complimentary consultations with residents, builders, contractors and businesses about compliance, which is worth taking up before you commit to a plan.
The Planning Department’s offices are open 8:30am to 6pm Monday through Thursday. It is a four-day week, so anything that needs a counter visit has to fit inside it. Public Works publishes two separate after-hours emergency lines — one for drinking water issues and one for sewer and flooding.
That has to be answered address by address. The Township’s Public Works department handles sewer and water, but publishes no split between served and unserved properties, and in this part of Livingston County both situations are common. We are not going to guess at proportions — ask the DPW about the specific address, because everything downstream follows from the answer.
No to both. We do not take water samples and we do not analyze them, and septic evaluation is a separate discipline with its own credentials. What a buyer’s inspection covers is the building — roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior — plus any treatment equipment installed, which on well water is common and does wear out.
Mostly recent. Of about 6,023 housing units, 1,621 were built in the 1990s and 1,566 in the 2000s, with 1,064 from the 1970s and 502 from the 1980s — roughly 60% dates from 1990 or later. Around 78% is single-family detached. A house from the mid-1990s is at the age where the original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater all come due together.
Yes, and for specific reasons rather than general caution. On a house of this era the components went in together and reach the end of their service lives together, so the question is which have already been replaced. Newer construction also brings its own recurring items — settled grading after backfill, flashing at complicated roof geometry, attic ventilation, deck ledger attachment, how a finished lower level was framed and ventilated, and egress from below-grade sleeping rooms.
If the property is on township sewer, yes. A house built in 1996 has a lateral that has been in the ground thirty years with mature landscaping alongside, and newer subdivisions carry the additional risk that heavy equipment and backfill damaged buried pipe in ways that take years to show. 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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