Macomb 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 Macomb 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.
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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 Macomb 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 Macomb 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 reportMacomb Township housing stock
Macomb Township has roughly 31,806 housing units and about 79% 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 2000s: 11,171 homes, about 35% of everything standing today.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $337,900. 92% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 2,078 manufactured and mobile homes in Macomb 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 a Macomb 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 Macomb Township was built
92% of homes here run on utility gas, and 13 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 435 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Almost everything written about home inspection in this region is about old houses. Macomb Township is the opposite case, and it deserves answering on its own terms.
The median build year here is 1999. Of roughly 31,806 housing units, about 30% went up in the 1990s, 35% in the 2000s and 12% in the 2010s — something like three-quarters of the township built since 1990. Around 79% are single-family detached, the highest share of any community we have looked at closely. For comparison, Warren’s median build year is 1965 and Garden City’s is 1956.
So the questions that dominate an inspection in an older suburb largely do not arise here. What replaces them is simple arithmetic. A house finished in 1999 is now around twenty-five years old. Asphalt shingle roof coverings, furnaces, air conditioning condensers and water heaters all have expected service lives shorter than or close to that. Each of those has either been replaced once already or is running at or past its design life — and which of the two is true is not something the build year can tell you.
There is also a permit sequencing rule here that catches buyers of brand-new houses, which is worth knowing before you plan your first summer.
Before you buy
Newer houses
It is a fair question in a township like this one, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a sales pitch.
We are not going to tell you that newer houses commonly have particular problems. We do not publish claims about what is typically found in any community, here or anywhere else, because we have no proper basis for them — and you should be wary of anyone who does. What we can set out is what an inspection actually does, and why that applies regardless of age.
An inspection reports the condition of what is in front of it. On a house from 1999 or 2004 that means establishing what is still original and what has been replaced, how much service life is realistically left in the roof covering, the furnace, the air conditioning and the water heater, what condition the structure and foundation are in, how the property handles water, and whether anything has been altered since it was built — a finished basement, an added bathroom, a deck, a pool — and how that work presents today.
That is the same job we do on a house from 1925. The findings differ; the reason for looking does not. A home buyer inspection covers roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, photographed and written up with how urgent each finding is.
Paperwork and sequence
This one is specific to Macomb Township and lands squarely on people buying a newly built house.
The township’s building and code enforcement guidance is asked directly whether a permit can be obtained for a shed, deck, pool or fence before a house has its final Certificate of Occupancy. The answer is no: a final Certificate of Occupancy must be issued, and the buyer must have their name on the property deed, before applying for permits. If you are buying new construction and planning a deck or a pool for the first season, that sequence sets your timeline.
A related one that is easily missed: a building permit is required to replace a roof. On a house of any age, if the roof has been replaced there should be a permit record behind it. Treat what you find as context rather than proof — a permit does not establish that work is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that it was done badly.
One point of precision, because the wording invites confusion. The township also operates a Certificate of Zoning Compliance and issues a Certificate of Re-Occupancy, and the language around premises being reoccupied reads like a resale rule. Read the instructions and it is headed industrial, commercial and office: the triggers are a new business in an existing building, a business relocating within a complex, changing suite, changing name or changing ownership. It is not a residential resale requirement, and we found no residential point-of-sale inspection in Macomb Township. Confirm for a specific address with the Building Department.
The buried line
Twenty-five years is less time for a sewer line to go wrong than eighty. It is not no time.
The private lateral runs underground from the house to the public system and no visual inspection can see inside it, whatever year the house was built. Two and a half decades is long enough for trees planted with the subdivision to reach a joint, for ground to settle around backfill and leave a belly, or for a line to be damaged during later work in the yard. We will not name a material from a build year here any more than anywhere else, because no authoritative source establishes what Macomb Township laterals are generally made of.
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 a newer property it often confirms a clean line, and that is a perfectly good result to have in writing before you buy. It is added to the same visit.
It is worth knowing how the wider system works here too. The township runs eight pump stations serving its sanitary sewer, and it is vocal about so-called flushable wipes, which do not break down like toilet paper and foul the pumps. That is a township maintenance problem rather than a defect in your house, but it is a good reason to be careful about what goes down the drain in a system that depends on pumping.
Water and charges
Macomb Township is large, and its utilities are organized accordingly.
The Department of Public Works provides drinking water to approximately 30,000 metered customers across a 36 square mile area, supplied by the Great Lakes Water Authority through three master-metered locations in the township. Township water or sanitary sewer service requires a permit, and that permit has several cost components.
One of them deserves a buyer’s attention. The township notes that tap fees and frontage fees are two key elements, and that if frontage fees have not previously been paid by a special assessment, a frontage fee for water and/or sewer is applied at the time of permit. Whether that has been settled on a particular property is a question for the township and your title company. It is not something an inspection can establish, and we would not pretend otherwise.
What we do assess outside the house is how the property manages water: accessible grading, gutters and downspouts, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace and sump equipment where present, documented as found. Alongside that, 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.
Local information from Macomb Township — Department of Public Works · Macomb Township — Building / Code Enforcement · Macomb Township — frequently asked questions. 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 Macomb Township is not where the state’s worst readings turn up, and we would rather say that plainly than imply 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 Macomb 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
Much newer than the rest of the region. The median build year is 1999, and of roughly 31,806 housing units about 30% date from the 1990s, 35% from the 2000s and 12% from the 2010s — roughly three-quarters of the township built since 1990. Around 79% are single-family detached, the highest share anywhere we have looked closely. By comparison Warren’s median build year is 1965 and Garden City’s is 1956. This is one of the few communities in the region where most houses were built this side of the millennium.
That is your call, and here is the honest arithmetic rather than a sales pitch. A house finished in 1999 is around twenty-five years old, which is at or beyond the expected service life of an original asphalt roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater. Each has either been replaced already or is running past its design life, and the build year cannot tell you which. We do not publish claims about what is commonly found in newer houses because we have no proper basis for them. What an inspection does is report the condition of what is actually there, whatever the age.
Not immediately, and this catches people out. The township states that a final Certificate of Occupancy must be issued and the buyer must have their name on the property deed before applying for permits — the question is asked specifically about sheds, decks, pools and fences. On a new-construction purchase that sequence can decide whether a project happens in your first summer or your second, so check where the final Certificate of Occupancy stands before you plan the work.
We found no residential point-of-sale requirement. There is a Certificate of Zoning Compliance and a Certificate of Re-Occupancy, and the wording about premises being reoccupied makes them easy to mistake for a resale rule — but the township’s own instructions are headed industrial, commercial and office, and every trigger is a business event: a new business in an existing structure, relocating within a complex, changing suite, changing name or changing ownership. Confirm for a specific address with the Building Department, and in the meantime plan on your own inspection being the one examining the house for you.
It is worth considering. Twenty-five years is far less exposure than eighty, but it is not none: trees planted with the subdivision have had time to reach a joint, ground settles around backfill and can leave a belly, and later work in a yard can damage a line. The lateral is buried and no visual inspection sees inside it regardless of age, and we would not guess a material from a build year. Putting a camera down the line answers it directly, and on a newer house it frequently confirms a clean run, which is worth having in writing. It is added to the same appointment.
Ask about frontage fees. The township notes that tap fees and frontage fees are two key components of a water or sewer permit, and that if frontage fees were not previously paid through a special assessment, a frontage fee for water and/or sewer is applied at the time of permit. Whether that has been settled for a particular property is a matter for the township and your title company — a home inspection cannot tell you, and we will not suggest otherwise. The Department of Public Works handles water and sewer permits.
Yes. You can book a Macomb Township home inspector with us seven days a week, and we cover the rest of Macomb County too.
A home inspection report reaches you within 24 hours. Commercial buildings are 24 to 72 hours depending on size, a radon result comes at the end of the 48-hour test, and mold samples come back from the lab in one to three business days.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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