Lennon, 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 Lennon 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 Lennon and across Genesee 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 Lennon 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 reportLennon housing stock
Lennon has roughly 156 housing units and about 95% 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 1950s: 43 homes, about 28% of everything standing today. At 95% 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 $135,400. 87% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist a Lennon 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 Lennon was built
80% of homes here run on utility gas, and 1 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 6 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Lennon has something almost no other community we cover has, and it changes how you should go about buying here. The village states it on its own about page: it sits along the boundary of Shiawassee and Genesee Counties, with a portion of the village in each. The Shiawassee side is part of Venice Township; the Genesee side is part of Clayton Township. M-13 runs along the county line and bisects the village.
So a Lennon address does not tell you which county you are in, and county is not a formality. It decides which register of deeds holds the deed and any easement on the parcel, which county health department handles a well or a septic evaluation, which road commission is responsible for the edge of the road, and where the assessing and equalization records live.
Two townships sit on top of that as well — Venice on one side, Clayton on the other — so the township layer of a tax bill and the township office you deal with both depend on which side of the highway a property is on.
This is not new. The village’s own account notes that its post office was established in Genesee County in 1880 and transferred to Shiawassee County in 1889, which is roughly as old as the place. But it does mean one thing has to happen before anything else: establish which county and which township the specific parcel is in, in writing, before you start ordering anything.
That matters practically because ringing the wrong county wastes a week and the answer will sound perfectly authoritative either way. A home inspection is not a code inspection or a title search and we do not present it as one — what we establish is what is physically there and what condition it is in.
Before you buy
Which county
It is worth being concrete about what actually changes, because "it is in two counties" sounds like trivia until you are the one making the calls.
If the property has a well or a septic system, the evaluation is arranged through the county health department — and which one depends on the side. Septic evaluations run to their own timetable and need booking early in a purchase, so this is the wrong thing to discover late. A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation and with the same office.
If there is a question about the deed, an easement, a lot line or a right of way, it is the register of deeds for that county. If there is anything at the edge of the road — a drive approach, a culvert, drainage that leaves the property — it is that county’s road commission. If you want to understand how the property has been assessed, it is that county’s equalization records and that township’s assessor.
None of those offices will tell you that you have called the wrong one, because from where they sit you have simply asked about a parcel they have no record of. That is the failure mode here, and it is entirely avoidable by settling the question first.
The village office is the place to settle it — the officials are listed by name — and in a village of roughly 156 homes that is one phone call. What a buyer’s inspection contributes is the list of things actually worth asking about — where water leaves the property, what condition the drive approach is in, what has been added to the building — so the call you make is a specific one.
The housing
Lennon has roughly 156 housing units and about 95% of them are single-family detached, with a median build year of 1957. This is a village of individual houses, so an inspection here is nearly always of a whole building rather than one unit inside one.
On housing with that median the electrical system is usually the accumulated work of several decades rather than one installation: mixed wiring types arriving in the same enclosure, ungrounded receptacles, a panel added to more than once, and an original service capacity sized for a 1957 household rather than a modern one. We report what is there and photograph it either way.
Plumbing has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, which puts the interesting questions at the transitions between materials. Heating and water heating equipment will be several replacements deep. Roof coverings will be on a second or third generation, and what was done at the flashings and penetrations matters more than the age of the covering.
Foundations of the period are typically block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how they were built. Where the downspouts terminate, whether there is a sump and where it discharges to, and how the ground falls away from the walls tell you more about a basement than a dry-day look at it will.
A state highway running through the middle of a village of this size also means a proportion of the housing fronts onto it, which is worth a thought about windows, doors and the drive approach. 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.
The buried line
The village takes sewer payments, so there is a village sewer operation here. What that does not establish is which parcels are connected to it, and we found no water department page on the village site — so we are not going to tell you what any particular property is served by. Confirm it in writing for the parcel you are buying.
Whatever it drains to, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner and no visual inspection reaches inside it. On a median 1957 house that pipe is close to seventy years old unless somebody has replaced it, and a replacement is rarely recorded anywhere a buyer will come across.
We are not going to name a material from a build year. Nothing published establishes what lines here 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. If the property turns out to be on a septic system instead, the camera documents the building drain out to the tank — the stretch a septic evaluation does not examine, and on a lot with mature trees exactly where roots go.
It goes on the same appointment rather than a second visit, and we deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day. You can read what our clients say, browse answers to common questions, or read the village’s published documents, or get in touch about a specific address in Lennon.
Local information from Village of Lennon — about the village, counties and townships · Village of Lennon — published documents · Village of Lennon — village officials · Village of Lennon — village website. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Genesee 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 · Genesee County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Lennon 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
Outstanding precision and attention to detail! Helps being able to make a truly informed decision about a home! Also, they are very veteran-friendly! No complaints here!
Desmond SheppardFlint, MINoah Scott was very thorough and explaining things to us, especially in regard to a possible mold problem.
Claudette GranvilleFlint, 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
Both. The village states that it sits along the Shiawassee and Genesee county boundary with a portion in each, bisected by M-13, which runs along the county line. Which one a specific parcel is in has to be established individually.
Venice Township on the Shiawassee County side, Clayton Township on the Genesee County side. That determines the township layer of a tax bill and which township office you deal with.
Because it decides which register of deeds holds the deed and any easement, which health department handles a well or septic evaluation, which road commission covers the road edge, and where assessing and equalization records live.
Nothing obvious, which is the problem. They simply have no record of the parcel, and the answer sounds authoritative either way. Settle which side you are on before you order anything.
We could not establish that from the village website, or whether it differs by county, and we are not going to guess. Ask the village office before you plan work.
The village takes sewer payments, so a sewer operation exists, but that does not tell you which parcels are connected. Confirm it in writing for the specific address.
The median build year is 1957 across roughly 156 housing units, about 95% of them single-family detached. That puts the middle of the stock close to seventy years old.
On a median 1957 house the line out from the building is often the oldest untouched component on the property, and no visual inspection reaches inside it. A camera inspection goes on the same visit.
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