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The same full inspection a buyer would order — roof to foundation, inside and out — carried out to the same InterNACHI Standards of Practice as every inspection we do. Nothing about the scope drops because nobody is buying anything. The difference is that there is no deadline attached and the report is for you. Same photo-rich digital report, in your hands within 24 hours — the annual physical your house never gets.
Following the InterNACHI Standards of Practice:
Optional services at an additional cost — not part of a standard maintenance inspection. Each reaches something a visual inspection alone cannot, and each is carried out during the same visit. Tap one to see what it covers.
Radon levels change as a house settles, as the ground shifts and as you seal it up tighter each winter. A reading from years ago is not a reading for today. Measured in house on a professional continuous monitor calibrated annually — not sent to a lab. More about radon gas testing
The lateral from the house to the main is yours to maintain, and tree roots do not stop growing. A camera down the line is the only way to see it before it backs up into the basement. More about sewer scope inspections
If there has been a leak, a damp basement or a smell nobody can place, testing tells you what you are dealing with rather than guessing. Samples go to a certified laboratory. More about mold inspection and testing
View a sample reportWhy bother
Most people only ever have their house inspected twice: once when they buy it and once when they sell it. That can be thirty years apart. A maintenance inspection is the same inspection run on your own schedule, for your own information, with nobody else waiting on the result.
A lifted shingle, a slow drip under a sink, a crack letting water toward the foundation. None of them announce themselves, and all of them get worse quietly. Finding one early is the whole point.
Work you plan is work you can schedule, get quotes for and spread out. Work that announces itself at 11pm in February is work you take on whatever terms you can get that night.
Attics, crawlspaces, the roof surface, the back of the panel. The parts of a house nobody looks at from one year to the next are exactly where the expensive surprises grow.
Each report is dated, photographed and kept. Over a few years that is a written history of your house — useful for planning, and useful again the day you decide to sell.
New build?
Most new homes come with a builder’s warranty that runs for the first year. A year is long enough for a house to go through one full Michigan winter and one full summer, which is exactly when settling, framing and flashing problems tend to show themselves — and often only just before that warranty runs out.
Booking an inspection at around the eleven-month mark gives you a documented, photographed list of what the first year has revealed while there is still time to raise it. What your builder covers is between you and your warranty; our job is to make sure you are not guessing about what is there.
Drywall cracks, sticking doors, nail pops, grading that has moved as the backfill settled. None of it is visible at closing, and all of it shows up over the first twelve months.
Michigan puts a new house through a freeze-thaw cycle, a thaw, a humid summer and a heating season before that first year is out. Flashing, seals and drainage get tested properly.
A dated, photo-rich report is a far better basis for a conversation with a builder than a list of things you have noticed. Everything is documented in one place.
Leave a margin. Booking with a month to spare means you have the report in hand and time to act on it, rather than discovering something the week the warranty lapses.
Michigan is hard on houses
Freeze, thaw, freeze again, then a humid summer. Southeast and Mid-Michigan put a house through a cycle that finds every weak seal, every bit of poor drainage and every gap in the insulation, then does it again next year. These are the areas that cycle tends to show up in first.
Michigan ice dams form when heat escapes into the attic and refreezes at the eaves. We look at the roof surface, the flashing and whether the gutters can actually carry a thaw.
Where the spring thaw sends the water. Soil settled against the foundation, downspouts discharging at the wall, and walks and drives that have tipped back toward the house.
Before the heating season, not during it. Visible condition, operation, airflow, and whether the filter has been changed this decade. Filters are the cheapest maintenance there is.
Clearance around the condenser, condition of the coil and cabinet, and whether shrubs have grown in around it. Equipment needs air to move; plants are very good at stopping that.
Corrosion, connections, venting and the relief valve. Sediment builds up quietly for years, and a water heater tends to give very little notice before it lets go.
Tested, not just looked at. A pump that has sat idle since last spring is a pump nobody has proven works, and the day you find out is the day you needed it.
Around showers, tubs, sinks and windows. Failed caulk is a small job that quietly soaks a subfloor or a wall cavity for a year before anything shows on the surface.
Bath fans, range hoods and the dryer run. Lint in a dryer duct is a fire risk and a blocked exhaust puts moisture back into the house, which is how the mould conversation usually starts.
None of this needs an inspector. It is the list we would give a friend who asked what to keep on top of — and staying on top of it is most of what keeps a house out of trouble. It is not exhaustive, and nothing on it replaces looking at the parts you cannot reach.
Why choose us
With more than 16,000 inspections completed and over 2,000 five-star reviews since 2009, homeowners across Southeast and Mid-Michigan use us to stay ahead of their houses rather than react to them. We also handle home buyer inspections, pre-listing seller inspections and commercial building inspections, pre-drywall inspections and 11-month builder’s warranty inspections.
Credentials from the recognized bodies, matched to the service you book.
Photo-rich, plain English, and yours to keep and compare against next year.
Including weekends, so it does not have to come out of a working day.
We encourage it. This is the one inspection with no deal on the line, so ask everything.
So nothing we write up is us quoting ourselves work. We report condition; you choose who fixes it.
Trusted by homeowners
Trademark is incredibly thorough! The ONLY inspectors I would trust with my home! From setting the appointment to climbing into the attic and crawling under the house, they are incredibly talented. Please do yourself the best favor, and always use and recommend Trademark!!
Paige CookNovi, MIThe company is great. They take their time to address your concerns, answer all questions and make sure you are content. Ora was great to work with, thorough and addressed all questions and concerns. I will definitely request him whenever I need an inspector!
Zack OudeifMichiganMitch was great and thorough the our inspection. He provided explanations and suggestions throughout the service. Highly recommend!
Jaynie GMonroe, MIExcellent service! Joe was Very friendly and respectful. He even showed up early and started before we arrived. He Went over results with us on the spot, was easy to talk to and very helpful.
Casey MoranRiver Rouge, MIJoe was my inspector. He was extremely detailed, listened to all of my concerns, gave honest solutions, and followed through with every question. I applaud his level of detail and professionalism. Excellent people skills with a lot of shareable knowledge.
QuinnEcorse, MIMitch 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, MI
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Claim the Hero DiscountQualified and certified
Michigan does not license home inspectors, so the credential behind the report is worth checking. Each of these is issued by the organization named and verifiable with them directly, and kept current through continuing education.
The core credential from the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors. It commits the inspector to InterNACHI’s Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics, and to continuing education every year rather than a one-off exam.
The profession’s top-level board certification. It is earned through inspection experience and continuing education over time, not bought — which is why comparatively few inspectors in Michigan hold it.
National Home Inspector ExaminationThe independently written, psychometrically validated exam from the Examination Board of Professional Home Inspectors, used by most states that license home inspectors. Michigan licenses nobody and asks for no exam at all, so sitting it here is entirely voluntary — which is rather the point.
Certified through the Certified Commercial Property Inspectors Association, the standards body for commercial building inspections. Commercial work follows a different discipline to residential, and this is the credential that covers it.
The International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants sets the protocols for how mold is sampled, handled and reported. Following them is what makes a laboratory result defensible rather than just a number.
The same body certifies radon measurement separately, because the discipline is different: where the monitor sits, how long it runs and what counts as a disturbed test all decide whether the reading means anything.
Certification from the National Association of Mold Professionals, covering how mold is identified, sampled and documented — the difference between spotting a stain and understanding the moisture behind it.
Training in running a sewer line camera and, just as importantly, reading what it shows. Roots, bellies, breaks and blockages all look different on screen and are easy to misread without it.
Certified Residential ThermographerCertified by Monroe Infrared in thermal imaging. A thermal camera reveals what the eye cannot — moisture behind finishes, missing insulation and overheating electrical connections — but only if the person holding it is trained to interpret it.
Licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration to fly commercially. That is what makes aerial roof and property imagery legal to carry out and legal to hand you — and it means a steep or unsafe roof can still be inspected properly.
Our service area
We inspect across fourteen Michigan counties — Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, Livingston, Genesee, Saginaw, Shiawassee, Lapeer, St Clair, Monroe, Lenawee, Jackson and Ingham — covering Metro Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint, Saginaw and the communities in between. Tap a county to see where we work.
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Common questions
The things homeowners ask us most before booking.
A full inspection of your home’s structure and systems carried out because you own the house, not because anyone is buying or selling it. It is the same inspection a buyer would order — the point is to find small problems while they are still small.
Once a year suits most homes, and every two years is reasonable for a newer house in good order. Older homes, homes that have been through a hard winter, and homes nobody has looked over in a decade benefit most from an annual look.
Roof, exterior, structure and foundation, attic, basement or crawlspace, electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling, interior, built-in kitchen appliances, the garage, and any safety issue we find — following the InterNACHI Standards of Practice, the same standard we inspect to for a buyer or a seller. The full scope is listed further up this page.
Yes, and often more than people expect. New houses settle, and the first few years are when framing, flashing and grading issues tend to appear. If your home is a new build, see the eleven-month question below.
Around the eleven-month mark. Most new homes carry a builder’s warranty for the first year, and booking with a month to spare gives you a documented, photographed report while there is still time to raise anything with your builder. What the warranty covers is between you and your builder — our part is making sure you are not guessing about what is there.
Yes — a photo-rich digital report, in plain English, within 24 hours. It is yours to keep, and it is worth keeping: next year’s report is far more useful when you can compare it to this one.
Please do. This is the one inspection with no transaction attached and no deadline, so it is the best chance you will get to walk your own house with an inspector and ask whatever you like.
No. We report condition and call out what needs attention, then recommend you get quotes from licensed contractors for anything that needs work. We are inspectors, not contractors, and pricing repairs is not our trade.
Never. We do not repair, remediate or sell any of the work we write up, which is what keeps the report worth reading. Nothing in it is us quoting ourselves a job.
It depends on the size and age of the home and any add-ons you choose, so we price each one properly rather than quoting a number that turns out to be wrong. Call 734-331-3269 or book online and you will see the price before you confirm.
Yes, and the same visit covers it. Radon is measured in house on a professional continuous monitor calibrated annually; mold samples go to a certified laboratory; a sewer scope puts a camera down the lateral. Each is an additional cost and none is part of a standard inspection.
Book online any time, or call 734-331-3269. We inspect seven days a week including weekends, so it does not have to come out of a working day.
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