Kochville 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 Kochville 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 Kochville Township and across Saginaw 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 Kochville 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 reportKochville Township housing stock
Kochville Township has roughly 1,300 housing units and about 53% 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.
It is also less detached-house territory than most of the area at 53%, 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 $149,700.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Kochville 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 Kochville Township was built
78% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 43 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Kochville Township publishes a warning on its building department page that everybody buying or building anywhere should read, not just people here.
The Township has been made aware of an email scam targeting townships, developers and people seeking construction permits. The example it describes is instructive: an email referring to a "pending application", appearing to come from a township, using language lifted directly from the township’s own website, urging immediate attention, asking for banking information, and insisting that all correspondence be conducted by email only.
The Township’s answer is unambiguous: it will never ask you to send banking information by email, and it has an online payment system for that purpose.
That pattern — urgency, a request for banking details, and a demand to keep everything in email — is the same one behind real estate wire fraud at closing. If you are in the middle of a purchase, it is worth treating any email about money with the same suspicion, whoever it appears to come from.
On the building side, the Township requires contractor registration before a permit can be issued, though it exempts homeowners doing their own work on a house they occupy. It has also adopted a property maintenance code, and runs its own police and fire departments.
The housing mix is unusual: only 53% of units are single-family detached, so nearly half of everything here is attached or multi-unit.
Before you buy
Fraud
We do not normally write about email security on a home inspection page. We are making an exception because the Township’s own warning describes something that costs people their deposits every year, and because anyone reading this page is likely to be in exactly the situation the fraud targets.
The described scam worked by looking legitimate. It referenced a pending application. It appeared to come from a township. It used wording taken straight from the township’s website. Then it asked for banking information and insisted everything stay in email.
The Township’s practical advice is worth repeating: look at the full email address the message came from, because a fake one may differ by a single character — the example it gives is an address ending in a doubled letter rather than the real government domain. Block the sender, report the message, and tell whoever handles your IT.
We would add one thing from our side of the transaction. Any instruction about where to send money — a deposit, a permit fee, closing funds — should be verified by telephone, on a number you looked up independently rather than one supplied in the email. Not by replying. Not by calling the number in the signature.
It costs a two-minute phone call and it is the single most valuable piece of due diligence in any property transaction, which is not something we say lightly given that we inspect buildings for a living.
Permits
Contractor registration is required before a permit can be obtained here, and registrations run until the contractor’s state license expires. The Township is explicit that failing to provide all the required information results in a permit being denied.
There is a sensible exemption: the registration requirement does not apply to homeowners doing their own work on a house they occupy. Note the word occupy — that carve-out is for people working on their own home, not for a property being renovated to let or to resell.
The building inspector is available by appointment only, Monday through Thursday, and inspections are carried out between half past eight and half past three. At least twenty-four hours’ notice is needed to schedule either an appointment or an inspection, by phone or email.
For a buyer, that shapes the timeline. If a seller is completing work as a condition of sale, or if you want a permit question answered inside a contingency period, build the notice period and the appointment-only arrangement into the plan rather than assuming you can drop in.
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 questions you take to the Township are specific. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day.
Property standards
The Township has adopted a property maintenance code by ordinance, and its code enforcement function is authorized by the township board to ensure adherence to its ordinances — including those covering signs, junk and debris, and inoperable or unlicensed vehicles. A complaint form is published.
We have not read the code itself and we are not going to state what it requires. But an adopted property maintenance code generally concerns the condition of buildings and sites rather than how they were built, and that overlaps closely with what an inspection reports.
On any property here we report the things that typically matter in that context: the condition of the exterior envelope, roof coverings, gutters and downspouts, porches, steps, handrails and guards, windows and doors and their operation, and the condition of accessory structures and fencing.
Inside, we report smoke and carbon monoxide alarm presence and placement, means of escape from sleeping rooms and basements, the electrical panel and accessible wiring, heating equipment condition and venting, plumbing function and evidence of leaks, and the general condition of surfaces and finishes.
Those findings are far more useful before you own a building than after. A repair list you negotiate is a different thing from a repair list somebody else sets a deadline on.
The housing
Only about 53% of Kochville’s housing is single-family detached. Close to half is attached or multi-unit, which is a much higher share than most of the townships we cover and changes what a purchase here involves.
On an attached or multi-unit property, the building envelope is shared, the roof usually is too, and the boundary between what an owner maintains and what an association maintains is a document rather than a wall. We inspect everything accessible inside the unit to the same standard as a house, and report what we can see and reach of the common structure, saying plainly where a limit exists.
The questions we cannot answer come from the association paperwork: which components are yours, whether there is a reserve study and what it says about the roof, and whether a special assessment is in prospect. Read those alongside our report, because a finding about a roof means something quite different depending on who pays for it.
On the detached side, the housing is spread evenly across every decade, with 587 units built since 1990 and 120 predating 1940. The newer stock is at first-replacement age — original roof coverings, water heaters on their second, and furnaces and condensers reaching the point where the next failure means replacement.
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. Inside, we look for staining, efflorescence, mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes and corrosion at the base of mechanical equipment.
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 — which in a township with this much non-residential and multi-unit development is a service we are asked for regularly.
The buried line
The line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
We were not able to read what the Township publishes about water and sewer, so we are not going to state whether any address here is on a public system or on a well and a septic system. Get the answer in writing for the specific parcel, and take any well or septic questions to the county health department, arranging the specialist work early.
On a property from the 1990s or 2000s the lateral is twenty to thirty-five years old, which is young enough that people assume it is fine and old enough that it often is not. On one of the 120 houses predating 1940, considerably older. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Kochville 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. It is one of the few significant components of a property that is invisible, not covered by a standard inspection, and generally unknown to the seller.
On an attached or multi-unit property, establish who owns the drain run before assuming anything — it may well be shared, and that is a question for the association documents rather than for us.
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 Kochville Township.
Local information from Kochville Township — building department, contractor registration and the phishing warning · Kochville Township — code enforcement and the property maintenance code · Kochville Township — planning and community development · Kochville Township — departments. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Kochville 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
A shout out to Noah for the inspection of our new house. He was very professional and thorough. He is also accessible after the fact — I have called him twice for clarification on our roofing issue and he has been so friendly and answered all of my questions.
Susan LawhonBridgeport, MII 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
An email referring to a "pending application", appearing to come from a township and using wording taken from the township’s own website, urging immediate attention, asking for banking information and insisting all correspondence stay in email.
Check the full sender address — a fake may differ by a single character. Never send banking details by email; the Township says it will never ask for them that way. And verify any instruction about where to send money by phone, on a number you looked up yourself rather than one supplied in the email.
Because the same pattern — urgency, banking details, email-only — is behind real estate wire fraud at closing. Anyone mid-transaction is exactly the target profile, and a two-minute phone call is the cheapest due diligence in the whole purchase.
Yes, with one exception. Contractor registration is required before a permit is issued and runs until the state license expires, but it does not apply to homeowners doing their own work on a house they occupy. Note "occupy" — that carve-out is not for a rental or a resale project.
By phone or email with at least twenty-four hours’ notice. The building inspector is available by appointment only, Monday through Thursday, and inspections are carried out between half past eight and half past three.
Because only about 53% of units are single-family detached. On an attached or multi-unit property the envelope and roof are usually shared, and the boundary between owner and association responsibility is a document rather than a wall.
Everything accessible inside the unit gets the same treatment as a house, and we report what we can see and reach of the common structure. Where a limit exists we say so rather than leaving you to assume it was covered.
Yes. The lateral is invisible, not covered by a standard inspection and generally unknown to the seller — and on a shared building you should establish who owns the drain run first. A camera inspection is added to the same visit.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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