Lambertville, 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 Lambertville 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 Lambertville and across Monroe 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 Lambertville 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 reportLambertville housing stock
Lambertville has roughly 4,161 housing units and about 92% 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 953 homes, around 23% of the housing stock. At 92% single-family it is almost entirely detached houses, so the inspection is nearly always of a whole building rather than one unit inside one.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $215,900. 93% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Lambertville 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 Lambertville was built
97% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 34 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Lambertville is not a city, a village or a township. It is an unincorporated community and census-designated place, which means it has a name, a postal identity and a place on a map — and no government of its own.
Everything municipal here belongs to Bedford Township. Building permits, zoning, ordinance enforcement, assessing and utility billing are all Township functions carried out from the Township offices. There is no Lambertville building department to call and no Lambertville permit file to search.
That is worth knowing before you start looking for records rather than after. A search for “Lambertville building permits” leads nowhere useful; a call to Bedford Township with a parcel number leads somewhere immediately.
It also means the rules that apply to a Lambertville house are the Township’s rules, and those are set out on our Bedford Township page — including how the permit process ends in a certificate, and the flood mapping and Elevation Certificate questions that matter in this part of Monroe County.
What is genuinely particular to Lambertville is the housing. Of about 4,161 units, 953 were built in the 1990s and 655 in the 2000s, with a median year of 1982 and around 92% single-family detached. That makes this the newer, more uniformly detached part of the township — Bedford Township as a whole runs 84% detached with a median of 1978, and Temperance runs older still.
Before you buy
Special assessment districts
In an unincorporated community, extending a sewer, a water main or a road improvement to a particular set of properties usually happens through a special assessment district — a mechanism where the properties that benefit are assessed for the cost, on a schedule, over years.
Bedford Township maintains a special assessment districts page for exactly this, directing financing questions to the Clerk’s department and construction or engineering questions to Township engineering staff.
Its published example is instructive, and it did not go ahead. The Covered Bridge special assessment district ran through a first public hearing notice, an engineer’s information sheet and a payment schedule in the fall of 2024 — and then failed for lack of signatures. That is the process working as designed: a proposal, a cost, a schedule, and property owners deciding.
For a buyer the point is not that particular district. It is that a special assessment is an obligation that attaches to a parcel rather than to a person, with a payment schedule that can run for years, and it is not something that shows up when you look at a house. Ask the Township directly whether any special assessment affects the property you are considering, and if one does, what remains to be paid.
It is the same class of question as an open permit or an unpaid utility account: cheap to ask before closing, awkward to discover afterwards. And in a community with no government of its own, the Township is the only place the answer exists.
A 1990s housing stock
The single largest block of housing in Lambertville is the 1990s — 953 units — with another 655 from the 2000s. Nearly two in five homes here went up between 1990 and 2009.
That produces a specific and predictable inspection profile, and it is not the one people expect. A house built in 1996 is not new any more. It is at the age where every component installed at construction reaches the end of a normal service life at roughly the same time: the original roof covering, the original furnace, the original water heater, the original air conditioning condenser. A thirty-year-old house can present a larger single year of expenditure than a seventy-year-old one where those things were replaced in stages decades ago.
The other feature of a fast-built community is repetition. Where a large number of houses went up in the same few years, by the same builders, to the same details, whatever was done well is done well across the subdivision — and whatever was not repeats too. Grading that was correct at final inspection and has since settled and reversed. Deck ledger details that were normal at the time. Flashing arrangements at a particular junction. Those are patterns worth recognizing, and they show up in a report rather than a listing.
A buyer’s inspection covers the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, and reports the condition and apparent age of each of those components. On a house of this vintage the most useful output is often a simple picture of what is likely to need money in the next five years, and in what order.
There is an older layer here too — 361 units predate 1940 and another 531 date from the 1950s — so the community is not uniform. The specific property matters far more than the average.
Where to ask
Bedford Township contains both Lambertville and Temperance, and neither has a government of its own. All three names appear on mail, in listings and in conversation as though they were interchangeable jurisdictions. They are not: there is one township, and two community names inside it.
The practical version for a buyer is short. Permits, inspections and code enforcement: Township building and ordinance departments. Property assessment and tax questions: Township assessing. Utility billing and final readings: the Township taxes and utilities office. Special assessments: the Clerk’s department for financing, engineering staff for construction questions.
For anything that turns on where a property actually sits — zoning, flood mapping, whether an assessment district reaches it — a parcel number is worth more than an address, because the address carries a community name that no government answers to.
On the building itself, the Township’s building department is where the permit history lives. A permit search is worth doing on any property where work has obviously been done — an addition, a finished basement, a deck, a replaced roof — and gaps are worth asking about.
What the file cannot tell you is condition. A furnace permitted and inspected in 2004 is a twenty-two-year-old furnace today, and a basement finished correctly still conceals whatever the foundation is doing behind the drywall. That is the half an inspection reports.
The buried line
Where a property here is on a public sewer, the buried lateral running from the building to the main is the one component no visual inspection reaches — and no municipal inspection at a house sale reaches it either.
People assume a 1990s house is too new for this to matter, and that assumption is the expensive one. On a house built in 1996 that pipe has been in the ground thirty years, and the trees planted when the subdivision went in have had exactly the same thirty years to reach it — which is precisely the age at which root systems get large enough to start looking for water at a joint. On one of the 361 units here predating 1940, it is far longer.
We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what laterals in this part of Bedford Township are generally made of — and across a community with both prewar houses and 2000s subdivisions, more than one material is certainly in the ground.
On a property with a septic system rather than a sewer connection, the tank and drainfield are a county health department question rather than ours. We do not evaluate septic systems and we do not test water.
A sewer camera inspection records what is actually inside the line: roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. 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. Get in touch to talk through a particular property.
Local information from Bedford Township — special assessment districts · Bedford Township — Building Department · Bedford Township — taxes and utilities. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Monroe 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 · Monroe County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Lambertville 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
Mitch was great and thorough the our inspection. He provided explanations and suggestions throughout the service. Highly recommend!
Jaynie GMonroe, 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
Bedford Township. Lambertville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place with no government of its own, so building permits, zoning, ordinance enforcement, assessing and utility billing are all Township functions. There is no Lambertville building department and no Lambertville permit file — a call to the Township with a parcel number is the fastest route to any record.
It is the mechanism by which infrastructure — a sewer extension, a water main, a road improvement — gets paid for by the properties that benefit, on a schedule that can run for years. Bedford Township maintains a page for these, with financing questions going to the Clerk’s department. The obligation attaches to the parcel rather than the person, and it does not show up when you look at a house, so ask the Township whether any affects the property and what remains to be paid.
The published example, the Covered Bridge special assessment district, went through a public hearing notice, engineer’s information and a payment schedule in fall 2024 and then failed for lack of signatures. That is the process working as designed rather than an active charge. Whether any district affects a particular parcel today is a question for the Township.
Newer than the township average. Of about 4,161 housing units, 953 were built in the 1990s and 655 in the 2000s, with a median year of 1982, and around 92% is single-family detached. Bedford Township as a whole runs 84% detached with a median of 1978, and Temperance is older again — so Lambertville is the newer, more uniformly detached part of one township.
The components that were all installed at construction and are now reaching the end of a normal service life together — the original roof covering, furnace, water heater and air conditioning. A thirty-year-old house can present a bigger single year of expenditure than a seventy-year-old one where those were replaced in stages long ago. In fast-built subdivisions, whatever detail was done well or badly tends to repeat across the street.
Not unless you arrange it. Nothing published by Bedford Township requires an inspection simply because a house is being sold. That puts the whole weight of finding out on your own inspection, which covers the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, and reports to you.
The parcel number, wherever you can. An address here carries a community name — Lambertville or Temperance — that no government answers to, while zoning, flood mapping and assessment districts all turn on where the parcel actually sits. The parcel number removes the ambiguity in one step.
Yes, and the newness of much of the housing is not a reason to skip it. On a 1996 house the lateral has been in the ground thirty years, and the subdivision trees planted at construction have had the same thirty years to reach it. 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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