Ira 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 Ira 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.
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 Ira Township and across St Clair 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 an Ira 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 reportIra Township housing stock
Ira Township has roughly 2,282 housing units and about 70% of them are single-family detached. Homes built in a single stretch tend to wear out in the same places at the same time. That is why when somewhere was built is the first thing worth knowing about it.
The busiest stretch of building here was the 1990s: 462 homes, about 20% of everything standing today.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $228,600. 85% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 460 manufactured and mobile homes in Ira Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist an Ira Township home inspector works through in a home of this age, and every item on it gets photographed and written up whichever way it turns out.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Ira Township was built
87% of homes here run on utility gas, and 17 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 60 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
If you are buying here and expect to have permitted work inspected inside a contingency period, Ira Township publishes exactly what you need to plan around — which is more than most municipalities do, and worth using.
Since April 2025, all building and trade inspections must be requested by email rather than by phone, and the request has to carry the address, the permit number, a contact name and phone number, and any special requests. That is a simple rule, but it catches out anyone who assumes they can ring up.
The Township also publishes its inspectors’ actual availability, and the three trades keep three different and fairly narrow windows. The building inspector is tentatively available Tuesday to Thursday in the middle of the day, the electrical inspector on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a couple of hours in the morning, and the mechanical and plumbing inspector Monday to Thursday in the afternoon.
Read those together and the practical point is clear: a job needing several trades signed off is a job measured in weeks rather than days. Assessing keeps its own schedule too, in office on Tuesdays, and notes that messages are returned within five business days. The Township publishes all of this on its clerk and department pages.
None of that is a criticism — a township that publishes its real availability is doing you a favor. It just means sequencing matters here, and starting early matters more.
The housing is mixed: 462 units from the 1990s, 393 predating 1940, and about 30% of all units attached or manufactured rather than detached.
Before you buy
Permits
The Township’s forms and permits page is more thorough than most, and it is worth a look before you plan anything.
Alongside the four trade permits, there are separate applications for an address, a fence, a shed under 200 square feet, a pool and a pond. On the zoning side there is a zoning verification, sign review, an application for mobile homes in a park, plan submission, a special inspections statement, and the usual planning apparatus — zoning board of appeals, rezoning, subdivision and condominium subdivision approval, planned unit development, and site plan and special land use review. There is also a property maintenance code board of appeals, a lot split and property combination application, an ordinance complaint form and a right to farm form.
What stands out is the support material. The Township publishes checklists for new houses, required inspection lists, deck construction guides, homeowner permit policies and permit extension forms, alongside the current building codes.
A published deck construction guide and a homeowner permit policy are genuinely uncommon, and both are the kind of document that saves an owner from doing something twice. We have not read them and will not describe what they require — but if you are planning work on a property here, download them before you start rather than after.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and cannot tell you whether a permit was pulled. On a township where fences, sheds, pools and ponds all have their own applications, that is worth knowing: a good deal of visible outdoor work here should have a record behind it, so a records request is a real check rather than a formality.
We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, so what we find can be turned into specific questions while you still have room to act.
Decks and outdoor structures
On any property, decks and outdoor structures are where informal work concentrates. In a township that publishes its own deck construction guidance, they are also where a buyer can most easily tell whether the work was done to a standard or to a weekend.
We look at decks specifically rather than in passing. The ledger connection to the house is the critical detail — how it is attached, whether it is flashed, and whether the fasteners are the right kind and still sound. Then post bases and their bearing, beam and joist connections, guard height and infill spacing, stair rise, run and handrails, and the condition of the decking and framing itself.
Deck failures are among the few structural failures that hurt people, and they almost always happen at the ledger. On an older deck, or one where nothing in the permit record explains it, that connection deserves a proper look.
The same applies to the other structures the Township lists as needing an application. On sheds we report visible condition, siting and any electrical supply run to them. On pools we report the condition and configuration of barriers, gates and latches, and the electrical arrangements serving pool equipment, which is a common place to find informal work. A full pool inspection is separate specialist work and we say so.
Fences and ponds we report as site features and note where they appear to interact with drainage or access. We do not survey boundaries or assess whether anything complies with the zoning ordinance — that is the Township’s job, and it has a complaint process and a board of appeals for it.
The housing
Ira Township’s housing splits three ways. There are 393 units predating 1940 — about 17% of the township. There are 1,068 built between 1980 and 2009, with the 1990s the largest single decade at 462. And around 30% of all units are attached or manufactured rather than detached houses, which is a substantial share.
On the pre-1940 stock, expect the accumulated history of a long-lived building: electrical rebuilt in stages by different hands across eighty years or more, plumbing renewed in part rather than in whole with material transitions at the joins, four or five generations of roof covering, and heating equipment several replacements from the original. Foundations of that era are typically stone or early block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on original construction.
The 1980s and 1990s houses are at the age where the first full round of replacements falls due: original roof coverings reaching the end, water heaters on their second, and furnaces and condensers at the point where the next failure means replacement rather than repair.
Manufactured housing needs its own approach rather than a shortened version of the same one. The things that matter most are the support and anchoring system and its condition, how level the unit sits and whether it has shifted, the skirting and ventilation of the crawl space, the condition of the roof and its seams, how utilities enter and are protected against freezing, and the state of the marriage line on a multi-section home. We inspect manufactured homes properly and report against what is actually there.
Only 40 units here date from the 2020s, so genuinely new construction is uncommon but not absent.
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.
Water and drainage
The Township publishes a great deal about permits and very little about utilities. It does not describe a water department, a sewer system, or guidance on wells and septic on the pages we read, so we are not going to state which arrangement applies to any address.
Get it in writing for the specific parcel. If the answer is a septic system, a septic evaluation is specialist work carried out by or through the county health department, and it needs arranging early because it takes its own time. If there is a private well, a water test 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 building. On a township of largely flat, low-lying ground near a bay, that fall matters more than it does inland, and it is often no longer what the builder intended.
Inside, we look for what water leaves behind: staining and tide lines on foundation walls, efflorescence and mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes, and corrosion at the base of mechanical equipment. Equipment raised up on blocks is usually a story about something that happened once, and it is always worth asking about.
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 one of the 393 houses predating 1940, that pipe may have been in the ground for eighty years or more, through more than one era of drain material. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Ira 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 low-lying ground a compromised joint is also a route for groundwater to get into the pipe, which turns a slow nuisance into a recurring one.
On a septic property the same camera documents the building drain out to the tank — the owner’s pipe, and the part a septic evaluation does not examine, since that looks at the tank and the field rather than the run between them and the house.
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 Ira Township.
Local information from Ira Township — building and assessing: inspector availability and email-only inspection requests · Ira Township — forms and permits, including the deck guide and homeowner permit policy · Ira Township — clerk’s office · Ira Township — community information. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Ira 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
By email. Since April 2025 all building and trade inspections must be requested by email rather than phone, and the request has to include the address, permit number, a contact name and phone number, and any special requests.
Plan in weeks rather than days if several trades are involved. The Township publishes its inspectors’ availability, and the building, electrical and mechanical inspectors keep three different and fairly narrow windows that barely overlap.
More than you might expect. Alongside building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits there are separate applications for an address, a fence, a shed under 200 square feet, a pool and a pond. A good deal of visible outdoor work here should have a record behind it.
Yes, and unusually good guidance. It publishes checklists for new houses, required inspection lists, deck construction guides, homeowner permit policies, permit extension forms and the current building codes. Download them before starting work rather than after.
Because deck failures are among the few structural failures that hurt people, and they almost always happen at the ledger connection to the house. We check how it is attached, whether it is flashed, and whether the fasteners are the right kind and still sound, along with post bases, guards and stairs.
Yes, and properly rather than as a shortened version of a site-built inspection. We look at the support and anchoring system, whether the unit sits level or has shifted, skirting and crawl space ventilation, the roof and its seams, how utilities enter and are protected from freezing, and the marriage line on a multi-section home.
Ask, and get it in writing. The Township publishes a great deal about permits and very little about utilities, so we are not going to state which arrangement applies to any address. If it is septic, arrange the evaluation early through the county health department.
Yes. On low-lying ground a cracked or displaced joint is a route for groundwater into the pipe as well as roots out of it, and on a house predating 1940 that pipe has been in the ground eighty years or more. A camera inspection is added to the same visit.
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