Mayfield 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 Mayfield 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 Mayfield Township and across Lapeer 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 Mayfield 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 reportMayfield Township housing stock
Mayfield Township has roughly 3,256 housing units and about 80% 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 1970s, which accounts for 1,024 homes, around 31% of the housing stock.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $179,700. 90% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 493 manufactured and mobile homes in Mayfield Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Mayfield 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 Mayfield Township was built
75% of homes here run on utility gas, and 24 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 242 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Mayfield Township publishes a property buyer’s guide. No other community we cover does, and it is worth reading in full, because almost nothing in it overlaps with what a home inspection tells you.
It covers what your taxes will actually be after you buy rather than what the seller is paying, what the zoning map allows on the vacant land next door, what the master plan says is likely to happen there in future, whether the road is public or private, and how deed restrictions can bind you in ways the township neither imposes nor enforces.
Those are the questions a building inspection cannot answer. Ours answers the other half — the condition of the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior. Read together, the two give you a genuinely complete picture of what you are buying.
There is also one piece of local mechanics that catches people out. Since November 2018 the township’s building department has not been at the township hall. It moved to Construction Code Authority in Lapeer, and the township is explicit that permits issued before that date are handled there too. A permit search on a Mayfield property, of any age, goes to Lapeer.
The housing is strikingly concentrated in one decade: of roughly 3,256 units, 1,024 — about 31% — were built in the 1970s, with another 523 in the 2000s and 476 in the 1980s. Around 80% is single-family detached.
Before you buy
The buyer’s guide
The guide opens with taxes, and it is the item that surprises buyers most often. The township explains that the previous owner paid tax on the property’s taxable value, that in the year after a purchase yours will be based on the assessed value, that the difference can be significant, and that this uncapping is state law which local officials cannot control.
On zoning it is blunter than most municipalities would dare to be. Always assume that any type of development the zoning ordinance permits may occur — and if a proposed development sits in the right district and meets the requirements, the township must by law approve it. That applies to everything from a new house to an industrial park.
The master plan section adds the longer view: land currently zoned residential but planned for future commercial use may well be rezoned to any commercial use the ordinance allows. And on proposed developments the township says plainly that if you are buying next to vacant land, you should assume the vacant land will be developed.
One detail there is worth knowing for a different reason. The planning commission reviews non-residential projects, special land use requests and rezonings, but it does not review each new single family home. A house in the right district that meets the building code goes ahead without that layer of scrutiny.
Then roads: ask the county road commission whether the road is public or private, because a private road is private property and neither the township nor the road commission can maintain or improve it. On a rural parcel that is a real and recurring cost.
And finally deed restrictions, which the township notes override its own authority. Covenants set by an original developer or a previous owner are often stricter than township rules, commonly set minimum building standards and sometimes association fees, and are binding on owners — but the township neither imposes nor enforces them. That is title work, and it belongs to your closing rather than to your inspection.
Permits
The building, planning and zoning department page carries a notice that matters to anyone researching a property here: as of 1 November 2018 the township moved its building department to Construction Code Authority, and permits issued before that date are handled there as well.
So there is no separate historical archive at the township hall to fall back on. Whether you are asking about a re-roof from last year or an addition from the 1980s, the request goes to the same organization in Lapeer.
Inspections can be requested online or by phone, with the phone lines running full days on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and mornings only on Tuesday and Friday.
Planning commission and zoning board of appeals applications are still issued by the township office, but they are reviewed by Construction Code Authority, and the township encourages applicants to meet with them before appearing at a hearing. On a rural parcel where a variance or a land division is in play, that pre-meeting is genuinely worth taking up.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and does not replace one. What it does is tell you which parts of a property to go looking for records about — a finished basement, a converted garage, an added bathroom, a deck, a replaced furnace — so that the search you make is a targeted one rather than a hopeful one.
A 1970s township
With 1,024 units built in the 1970s, this is the most single-decade-dominated community on our list. That produces a very recognizable inspection.
The electrical service was sized for a 1970s household and has usually been upgraded at least once. Upgrades vary from a genuine rewire to a new panel with original distribution behind it, and circuits added in stages by different hands are common. What matters is the coherence and quality of what has happened since, and that is visible.
Plumbing has generally been renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving material transitions worth examining. Roofs are on their third or fourth covering. Windows have been replaced once, sometimes with more attention to the unit than to what happens at the opening. Heating and cooling equipment has turned over two or three times, and venting arrangements do not always keep pace with a newer appliance.
Insulation and ventilation reflect the standards of the day, which on a house of that era means there is often a worthwhile improvement available in the attic. And fifty years of freeze and thaw leave a readable record in a foundation and a basement.
Behind that sit 523 units from the 2000s — where the questions are about the first round of turnover rather than the third — and 224 predating 1940, where they are about accumulated alteration across eighty-five years. The scope of the inspection does not change between them. Where the hours go does.
Rural parcels
On a township parcel outside a served area, the water usually comes from a well on the property and the waste goes to a septic system on the property. Both are county health department matters rather than home inspection ones.
We do not evaluate septic systems and we do not test water. Those evaluations answer questions a visual inspection genuinely cannot — whether a drainfield is failing, when the tank was last pumped, what is actually in the water — and in the buying season they need booking as soon as you are under contract. Confirming what serves a particular address is worth doing early rather than assuming either way.
What we inspect is the building and everything from the house side of those systems inward: the accessible plumbing, the drain and vent arrangements we can see, how fixtures behave under load, and the visible condition of pump and pressure equipment.
Surface water matters more on a rural lot than most buyers expect. A drainfield working under ground that is also taking every downspout, the sump discharge and runoff from a gravel drive is a drainfield working against you. We report the fall of the ground around the building, the condition of gutters and where downspouts terminate, and where any sump discharge appears to go.
Outbuildings are part of the picture too. Pole barns, detached garages and workshops are common on parcels this size and often hold real value. It is worth agreeing in advance which structures you want included so the time is allowed for.
The buried line
Whether a property here drains to a septic tank or to a sewer connection, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On one of the 1,024 houses built here in the 1970s that pipe has been in the ground half a century, under a lot whose planting has had exactly as long to mature. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Mayfield 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. On a septic property it documents the building drain out to the tank, which remains the owner’s pipe and is not the focus of a county health evaluation. It is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately.
Alongside it we offer radon testing, mold inspection and testing, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property.
You can read what our clients say, look through answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Mayfield Township. The township’s own forms and publications page is the place to find its zoning ordinance and master plan.
Local information from Mayfield Township — property buyer’s guide · Mayfield Township — building, planning and zoning department and the move to Construction Code Authority · Mayfield Township — forms and publications, zoning ordinance and master plan. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Mayfield 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
I 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, MIThis is one of the finest companies I have come across - that means serious customer service and professionalism. Justin was the inspector and he was very thorough yet very kind to answers all the questions that came in my mind during inspection. He took enough time, no rush, and a very detailed inspection was conducted. Extremely competitive pricing and timing from the company. 100% recommend to anyone looking for any kind of property inspection!!
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Questions
At Construction Code Authority in Lapeer, not at the township hall. The township moved its building department there on 1 November 2018 and states that permits issued before that date are handled there as well, so a search on a property of any age goes to the same place.
No, and the township warns about it directly. It explains that the previous owner paid tax on the taxable value, that yours will be based on the assessed value in the year after purchase, that the difference can be significant, and that this uncapping is state law which local officials cannot control.
Not if it complies. The township states that where a proposed development sits in the appropriate zoning district and meets all zoning ordinance requirements, it must by law be approved — and advises buyers to assume that any use the ordinance permits may occur, and that vacant land will be developed.
Because a private road is private property, and the township says neither it nor the county road commission can maintain or improve one. Maintenance, snow clearing and resurfacing fall to the owners it serves. The township advises asking the county road commission which it is.
They can. The township states that deed restrictions override township authority, that they are often stricter than its own regulations, that they commonly set minimum building standards and sometimes association fees, and that it neither imposes nor enforces them. That makes them a title question for your closing.
Concentrated in the 1970s more than anywhere else we cover: 1,024 of roughly 3,256 units, about 31%, come from that decade alone. Another 523 date from the 2000s and 476 from the 1980s, with 224 predating 1940.
No to both — those go through the county health department, and on a rural parcel they need booking as soon as you are under contract. We inspect the building and the accessible plumbing inside it, and report how fixtures behave and what pump and pressure equipment looks like.
On a 1970s house, usually yes. The line running out of the building is the owner’s, it has been in the ground fifty years, and the trees over it have had the same time to find it. A camera inspection documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages, works on a septic property too, and is added to the same visit.
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