Haslett, 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 Haslett 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 Haslett and across Ingham 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 Haslett 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 reportHaslett housing stock
Haslett has roughly 9,582 housing units and about 51% 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 1970s, which accounts for 2,193 homes, around 23% of the housing stock. It is also less detached-house territory than most of the area at 51%, so condominiums, duplexes and small multi-family buildings are a bigger share of what we inspect here — and those bring their own questions about what is yours to maintain and what belongs to the association.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $261,200. Around 587 homes sit in two-to-four unit buildings, where a shared roof, a shared wall and sometimes a shared furnace mean the report has to be clear about where one unit stops.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Haslett 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 Haslett was built
72% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 229 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Haslett was built and finished. Of about 9,582 housing units, 2,193 went up in the 1970s and 2,106 in the 1980s — and then it stopped: just 184 units in the whole of the 2010s.
That gives the market an unusual shape. Rather than a mix of ages, you have a large cohort of houses that are all between thirty-five and fifty-five years old, and they are reaching the same milestones at the same time. On a house from 1980, the original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater have every one of them been replaced at least once already, and in many cases the replacements are themselves now old.
So the useful question here is almost never "how old is the house". It is "how old is the second furnace, and the third roof". That is what an inspection establishes, and it is where the money is on stock like this.
Around 51% of the housing is single-family detached, so about half of what changes hands is attached — which brings its own first question, covered below.
Before you buy
A cohort aging together
When a community builds out in two decades, its housing does not age gracefully in stages — it arrives at each milestone all at once.
Roof coverings run twenty to thirty years, so a 1980 house is on its second and looking at its third. Furnaces run fifteen to twenty-five, so the original went years ago and the replacement may be approaching the end itself. Air conditioning condensers are similar. Water heaters turn over roughly every twelve, which puts three or four on a house of this age. Windows, if original, are well past the point where seals hold.
None of that is alarming. It is simply what a well-kept forty-five-year-old house looks like, and the reason a report on one is worth having is that the second generation of equipment is rarely all the same age. A 2009 furnace and a 2021 roof and a 1998 water heater is a perfectly ordinary combination, and it produces a very specific five-year budget.
A buyer’s inspection records what is installed, its condition and its apparent age across the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and accessible interior — and says plainly what could not be seen. On this housing stock that inventory is the point of the exercise.
One more thing common to houses of this era: finished lower levels, added at some stage by somebody. How those were framed, insulated, wired and ventilated, and whether egress from any below-grade sleeping room is adequate, is worth particular attention.
Which government applies
This trips up buyers and their agents regularly, so it is worth stating plainly: there is no Haslett city hall, no Haslett building department and no Haslett ordinance.
Haslett is a community inside Meridian Charter Township, which is the local government for every property with a Haslett address. Its Code Enforcement Division enforces the International Property Maintenance Code and the Township Code of Ordinances — which the Township says generally cover areas outside buildings — and administers a vacant and abandoned building registration. The Township publishes the building applications, a homeowner permit policy and a rental registration packet.
We did not find a published rental inspection cycle, so we are not going to state one; the Township is the place to confirm it if you are buying income property. And with around half the housing here attached, if the property is a condominium or townhouse the other document to get hold of is the association’s: roof, siding, windows and sometimes the water heater or furnace flue can fall to either the owner or the association, and that line decides who pays for what an inspection finds.
Searching for Haslett rules and finding nothing does not mean the rules do not exist. It means you are looking at the wrong government.
Wells, septic and where water goes
If the property is not on public water and sewer, Ingham County is the call to make early.
The Ingham County Health Department publishes a list of certified point-of-sale inspectors on its well and septic pages. We are not going to describe the trigger, the scope, the fee or how long an evaluation stays valid, because those details sit in documents we could not read in full and inventing them would be worse than saying so.
And to be clear about the credential: a county point-of-sale evaluation is carried out by a county-certified point-of-sale inspector, which is a different qualification from a home inspection. It is not what we do. On a property with a well and septic system you may well want both, arranged separately.
On stormwater, Meridian Township is a regulated MS4 community and a member of the Greater Lansing Regional Committee for Stormwater Management, covering the Grand River, Red Cedar River and Looking Glass River watersheds. It notes that many of its storm drains discharge directly into rivers and streams without treatment.
What an inspection covers on the water side is the property: accessible grading and whether the ground sheds water away from the foundation, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, floor drains and any sump equipment, recorded as found.
The buried line
The same cohort effect applies below ground, and nothing visual reaches it.
On a house from the 1970s the buried lateral running to the sewer main has been in the ground fifty years or more, and the trees planted when the subdivision went in are fully mature. That is exactly the combination that produces root intrusion at a joint. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what laterals here 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.
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 Meridian Charter Township — Code Enforcement Division · Meridian Charter Township — applications, forms and permits · Ingham County Health Department — well and septic, certified point-of-sale inspectors. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Ingham 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 · Ingham County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Haslett 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
Concentrated in two decades. Of about 9,582 housing units, 2,193 were built in the 1970s and 2,106 in the 1980s, with 1,722 more in the 1990s — and then building slowed sharply, to just 184 units across the whole of the 2010s. Around 51% is single-family detached. That means a large cohort of houses all between thirty-five and fifty-five years old, reaching the same milestones at the same time.
The second generation of equipment rather than the first. Every original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater on a house that age has already been replaced at least once, and those replacements are rarely all the same age. A 2009 furnace, a 2021 roof and a 1998 water heater is an ordinary combination and produces a very specific five-year budget. Finished lower levels added along the way also deserve attention, particularly egress from any below-grade sleeping room.
No. Haslett is a community inside Meridian Charter Township, which is the local government for every property with a Haslett address. There is no Haslett building department, no Haslett ordinance and no Haslett code enforcement office. Wells and septic systems are handled by Ingham County. Searching for Haslett rules and finding nothing means you are looking at the wrong government, not that the rules do not exist.
The association’s governing documents. With about half of Haslett’s housing attached, this comes up constantly — the roof, siding, windows and sometimes the water heater or furnace flue can fall to either the owner or the association depending on those documents, and that line decides who pays for what an inspection finds. Getting them beforehand changes how you read the report rather than what is in it.
The Township says it plainly: its Code Enforcement Division enforces the International Property Maintenance Code and the Township Code of Ordinances, which generally cover areas outside buildings. It also administers a vacant and abandoned building registration. What it does not do is examine the furnace, the electrical panel or the roof structure on a buyer’s behalf.
Ingham County runs a point-of-sale program for wells and septic systems, and its Health Department publishes a list of certified point-of-sale inspectors. We are not going to state the trigger, scope, fee or validity period, because those sit in documents we could not read in full. If the property is not on public water and sewer, call the Health Department early rather than late.
No. That evaluation is carried out by a county-certified point-of-sale inspector, which is a different credential from a home inspection, and we are not going to let anyone assume our visit covers it. A buyer’s inspection covers the building — roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior. On a well-and-septic property you may want both, arranged separately.
On this housing stock especially. A 1970s house has a lateral that has been in the ground fifty years or more, and the trees planted when the subdivision went in are now fully mature — which is exactly the combination that produces root intrusion at a joint. No visual inspection sees inside that pipe. 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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