Lenox 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 Lenox Township home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
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Included free with every home buyer inspection— and none of them require us to sell your information.
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$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 Lenox Township and across Macomb 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 Lenox 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 reportLenox Township housing stock
Lenox Township has roughly 3,985 housing units and about 65% of them are single-family detached. Housing that went up mostly in one era has mostly one era’s problems — which is genuinely useful to know before you buy, because it tells you what to look at first.
Most of it went up in the 2000s — 1,021 homes, around 26% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $187,300. There are around 1,151 manufactured and mobile homes in Lenox Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Lenox Township home inspector starts looking in a home of this age, and what we photograph and write up either way.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Lenox Township was built
83% of homes here run on utility gas, and 7 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 250 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Lenox Township publishes something we have not seen from any other municipality in this project: the number of inspections attached to each kind of permit, printed right on the fee schedule.
A carport gets two inspections. A deck or porch, two. A demolition, two. An above-ground pool, two — and it must have a locking ladder. An inground pool gets three, and must have a fence around it. A pond gets three. A fence gets one, under a zoning compliance permit.
And an egress window gets its own permit and two inspections.
That last one is the entry a buyer should notice. An egress window is what makes a below-grade bedroom a bedroom rather than a storage room — a way out that does not depend on the stairs. Where the Township permits and inspects them separately, a finished basement with a bedroom in it should have a record behind it. If a listing counts a lower-level room as a bedroom and there is no egress window permit, that is a question worth asking.
The township is mostly recent and only partly served by municipal utilities: of about 3,985 units, 1,021 were built in the 2000s and 929 in the 1990s, with 462 more since 2010. Around 65% is single-family detached.
Before you buy
The inspection counts
Most municipalities tell you a permit is required and leave the process opaque. The Lenox Township fee schedule tells you how many times an inspector will actually come out, which is a better guide to how seriously a given piece of work is taken.
Three inspections for a pond and three for an inground pool put those at the top. Two for a deck, a carport, a demolition, an above-ground pool and an egress window. One for a fence. Sheds, fences and shipping containers run under zoning compliance permits rather than building permits, with shipping containers charged per inspection.
Solar panels have their own line, with a plan review fee, which means a solar installation here should leave a record. That is worth knowing on any property with an array: the panels are the visible part, but the mounting, the flashing where anything penetrates the roof, and the electrical connection are the parts that matter, and a permit record tells you they were looked at.
The schedule also carries a warning in capitals: a $150 penalty for starting work without a permit. And two entries with unusual wording — final grade and plot plan reviews are each charged every time they are submitted, until approved. Most municipalities review a resubmission for free. Here a rejected grade plan costs again, which is a strong incentive to get the drainage right the first time.
Bonds appear too: accessory buildings carry a $500 bond, signs $250, and new homes and attached garages carry a bond based on square footage up to a $2,000 ceiling. A bond gives the Township a lever to see work finished and finalled rather than abandoned part-way, which is the origin of most open permits.
Since 2019 the Township has also required every new building project submission to arrive with a USB drive carrying a PDF of all the documentation — a small administrative detail that quietly means the recent record here should be complete and searchable.
Wells and septic
Most townships in this project answer the water and sewer question with an invitation to call. Lenox answers it directly: the southeastern sections of the township and the Gratiot corridor have water and sewer service, and the remainder is served by septic fields and wells maintained by the property owners.
That is genuinely useful, and it is the first question on any property here. It also sets the shape of what you are buying. On the served side, you have a water bill, a sanitary lateral and the usual municipal relationships. On the rest — which is most of the township — you are taking on equipment: a wellhead, a pressure tank, a pump and its electrical supply, and on the waste side a tank and a drainfield, all with their own service lives and their own maintenance histories.
We do not take water samples, we do not analyze them, and we do not evaluate septic systems. Those are separate disciplines with their own credentials, and on a well and septic property you want the county health department involved alongside a building inspection rather than instead of one.
What a buyer’s inspection covers is the building and the ground immediately around it: the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, plus accessible grading and how it falls away from the foundation, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, and any sump equipment and where its discharge goes. On a rural lot the water story runs well past the foundation wall, and we record what is accessible.
The Township’s frequently asked questions also set out some rules that describe the character of the place: a pond needs five acres and is permitted only in the agricultural and rural residential districts, with a long list of regulations behind it; a horse needs five acres for the first animal and another acre for each one after; and a 2024 ordinance governs off-road vehicles on the township’s dirt roads.
Two governments
The Village of New Haven sits inside Lenox Township and is a separate government with its own jurisdiction and its own records. A New Haven address and a Lenox Township address are not the same thing, and confirming which one applies is the first step before any permit search.
This is the same trap this project keeps finding, and it is worth restating because the cost of getting it wrong is silent: a search at the wrong government comes back empty, and an empty result looks identical to a clean history.
The Township also publishes a separate fee schedule for manufactured housing communities — covering set-up and piers, with their own electrical, mechanical and plumbing set-up fees, including the service and gas piping components. That tells you manufactured housing is a real part of the picture here, which fits a township that is 65% single-family detached.
Manufactured homes ask different questions of an inspection than site-built houses. The set-up, the piers and the anchoring matter in a way a poured foundation does not; skirting, the condition of the underside, and how utilities enter are all worth attention; and the permit record for a set-up is a genuine document rather than a formality. Where a property is in a community rather than on its own land, what the community owns and what you own is the other question to settle early.
For any of these, the Township departments page is the place to start, and the Building Department is the office holding the file.
The buried line
For all the inspections the Township counts out on its fee schedule, none of them is of the buried line between a building and whatever it connects to. That is the one component no visual inspection reaches.
On the served side of the township, that is a sanitary lateral running to the main. On a house built in 2004 it has been in the ground twenty-odd years, with the landscaping planted at construction now mature above it — which is exactly the age at which root systems get big enough to start looking for water at a joint. On one of the 396 units here predating 1940, far longer.
On the rest of the township it is the run between the house and the septic tank. The tank and the drainfield belong to a county health department evaluation, but the line from the building to the tank is the owner’s, and it is exactly what a camera looks at.
We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Lenox Township laterals are generally made of — and in a township with both prewar houses and 2000s subdivisions, more than one material is certainly down there.
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 Lenox Township — Building Department, fee schedule and inspection counts · Lenox Township — frequently asked questions, water and sewer service area · Lenox Township — departments. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Macomb County
Zone 3 is the lowest of the three EPA categories — the predicted average indoor level across the county is below 2 pCi/L. So Lenox Township is not where Michigan’s alarming radon numbers are, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
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 · Macomb County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Lenox 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
Mitch 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, 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 egress window has its own permit in Lenox Township, with two inspections against it. An egress window is what gives a below-grade bedroom a way out that does not depend on the stairs. If a listing counts a lower-level room as a bedroom, it is worth asking the Building Department whether an egress window permit exists for the property.
It publishes the count against each permit type, which is unusual. Ponds and inground pools get three inspections. Carports, decks and porches, demolitions, above-ground pools and egress windows get two. Fences get one, under a zoning compliance permit. Shipping containers are charged per inspection. It is a better guide than most to how seriously a given piece of work is taken.
The Township states them on the fee schedule itself: an above-ground pool must have a locking ladder and gets two inspections; an inground pool must have a fence around it and gets three. Both need permits and plan review. Pool barriers are a genuine safety item rather than paperwork, and they are worth checking on any property that already has one.
It depends where it is, and the Township says so plainly: the southeastern sections and the Gratiot corridor have water and sewer service, and the remainder of the township is served by septic fields and wells maintained by property owners. That is the first question to settle, because it changes what you are taking on.
Then you are taking on equipment as well as a building — a wellhead, pressure tank, pump and electrical supply, and on the waste side a tank and drainfield. We do not take or analyze water samples and we do not evaluate septic systems; both are separate disciplines with their own credentials, and the county health department is where they belong. Arrange them alongside a building inspection rather than instead of one.
The Township prints the answer in capitals at the top of its fee schedule: a $150 penalty for starting work without a permit. It also holds bonds on some work — $500 on accessory buildings, $250 on signs, and a square-footage-based bond up to $2,000 on new homes and attached garages — which gives it a lever to see work finished and finalled rather than abandoned part-way.
No. The Village of New Haven sits inside Lenox Township but is a separate government with its own jurisdiction and its own records. Confirm which one a property is in before any permit search, because a search at the wrong government comes back empty — and an empty result looks identical to a clean history.
Yes, and it is the one thing the Township does not count an inspection for. On the served side that is the lateral to the main; on the rest of the township it is the run from the house to the septic tank, which is the owner’s. On a 2004 house the pipe has been in the ground twenty-odd years with mature landscaping over it. 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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