Morrice, 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 Morrice 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 Morrice and across Shiawassee 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 Morrice 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 reportMorrice housing stock
Morrice has roughly 574 housing units and about 75% 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 1990s — 147 homes, around 26% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $116,900. 88% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Morrice 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 Morrice was built
78% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 16 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Morrice has an ordinance most villages do not: one regulating hunting inside the village limits. It is worth reading whichever side of it you are on, and most buyers only think about one of the two.
The rule sets a floor and a distance. A property being hunted must consist of at least five contiguous acres inside the village, and nobody may hunt within 450 feet of an occupied building, dwelling, house, residence or cabin, or of a barn or other farm building, without first obtaining written permission from all the owners, renters or occupants of that property.
If you are buying acreage with the idea of hunting it, the five acre threshold is the thing to check. But if you are buying a house, the second half is the part that matters: a neighboring parcel of five acres or more may lawfully be hunted, and the 450 foot separation from your home is what the ordinance gives you — and it can be waived by written permission from the occupants.
None of that is alarming. It is simply a land use question that a buyer in a village surrounded by farmland would sensibly want answered, and it is one the village office can answer for a specific parcel.
The village also runs its own transfer station, so waste disposal here is not purely a curbside arrangement. Pricing there changed on 1 July, and the village has separately announced sewer and trash rate increases.
The housing splits: about 255 of roughly 574 units were built between 1990 and 2009, while 123 predate 1940. The 1970s produced only 21 houses in the whole village.
Before you buy
Land use
The village’s hunting and weapons ordinance, enacted in December 2019, opens by stating that no person shall hunt in the village except under the conditions it then sets out. Its stated purpose is securing the health, safety and welfare of residents and property owners while providing for the regulation of hunting of game within the village.
The two conditions we read are the acreage floor and the distance rule. At least five contiguous acres within the village limits, and no hunting within 450 feet of an occupied building, dwelling, house, residence or cabin, or of a barn or other building used with a farm operation, without prior written permission from all owners, renters or occupants. Where that permission has been given, the hunter must carry it.
We read that section and no further, so we are not going to tell you anything about seasons, weapons, enforcement or penalties — the full text is published and the village office is the place to ask.
What we would do as a buyer is look at the map rather than the ordinance. Is there a parcel of five acres or more adjoining or near the property? If so, the ordinance permits hunting on it subject to those conditions, and the 450 foot line relative to the house you are buying is worth understanding.
The village also publishes fireworks ordinances — two of them over the years — which sit in the same family of questions about what may happen on and around a property. We have not read them and make no claim about what they allow.
A home inspection covers the building, not the surroundings, and no inspector can tell you whether you will be content with a location. What we can do is give you an accurate picture of the property itself, so the questions you put to the village are about a real place.
Waste
The Morrice transfer station appears in the village’s own government menu alongside the public works department, the police and the fire department. It is a village facility, and the village announced that new pricing took effect on 1 July.
That is a genuine practical difference from most places we cover. Where a community runs a transfer station, disposing of bulky items, renovation waste or anything outside the normal collection tends to mean taking it there and paying for it, rather than arranging a private hauler or waiting for a special collection.
For anyone buying a property they intend to work on, that is worth pricing in. Clearing a basement, stripping a roof or emptying an outbuilding produces a surprising volume of material, and knowing where it goes and what it costs is part of budgeting the job.
We could not retrieve the current price list or the detail of the announced sewer and trash rate increases — both village posts point at attachments we could not open — so we are not going to quote any figure. Ask the village office for the current price list and the current rates before you rely on anything.
The village also publishes its ordinances and statutes, forms and applications, council meeting schedule and minutes through its local government section, and Shiawassee County’s jurisdiction list records Morrice as handling zoning, building and all three trades locally rather than through the county.
What we could not find is a building department page naming an inspector, so establish who performs the inspections before you plan work.
The housing
About 147 of roughly 574 units date from the 1990s and 108 from the 2000s, so nearly half the village is between twenty and thirty-five years old. Around 123 units predate 1940, and the 1970s barely happened here at 21 houses.
On the newer stock the questions are about timing rather than decay. The first full round of replacements arrives more or less at once: original roof coverings reaching the end of their service life, water heaters on their second or third, and furnaces and condensers at the point where the next failure means replacement rather than repair.
Windows and exterior doors from that era are usually the original units, and failed seals in double glazing show as clouding or deposits between the panes. We note those individually rather than as a blanket comment.
Decks built alongside those houses need their ledger connections, flashing, fasteners and post bases genuinely examined rather than glanced at, because deck failures are among the few structural failures that injure people and they almost always begin at the ledger.
On the 123 units predating 1940 the exercise is different entirely: electrical rebuilt in stages by different hands, plumbing renewed in part rather than in whole with material transitions at the joins, several generations of roof covering, and foundations of stone or early block whose condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how they were originally built.
At 75% detached, sheds, garages and outbuildings are common, and on a village with acreage at its edges some properties carry substantial ones. We inspect them as part of the property. Radon testing and mold inspection and testing can be added to any visit, and a buyer’s inspection is the usual starting point.
Drainage
We could find no published detail about the village water or sewer systems beyond the fact that sewer and trash rates have been increased, so we will not describe them or tell you what a particular address is connected to. That is a question for the village office.
What we do report is what happens at the building. We record where the downspouts terminate and whether they carry water clear of the walls or drop it at the foundation, where any sump pump discharges and whether there is a backup arrangement, and how the ground falls away from the building on every elevation.
On a house from the 1990s or 2000s, grading that was correct at handover has had two or three decades of landscaping and settlement since, and downspout extensions get removed for mowing and never replaced. On a pre-1940 house the original arrangement has usually been altered more than once.
Inside, we look for what past water has left behind: staining and tide lines on foundation walls, efflorescence and mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes, and corrosion at the base of mechanical equipment. Equipment raised up on blocks is nearly always a story about something that happened once, and it is always worth asking the seller about.
A finished lower level deserves a careful look rather than a quick one, because finishing is very often what conceals the evidence.
The buried line
The line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it. Under one of the 123 houses predating 1940 it is often the oldest untouched component on the whole property.
We will not name a material from a build year. Nothing published establishes what Morrice lines 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 in there: roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. In an old platted village with mature street trees, roots are the common finding and they give no warning until the day the drains back up.
On the 1990s and 2000s stock the reason is different: a line laid during a build of that period can carry construction debris or a settled section from the day it went in, and nothing about the house above it would lead anyone to check.
With sewer rates already rising, a line that turns out to need work is a cost you would rather know about before you agree a price than after.
A camera inspection is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately, 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 get in touch about a specific address in Morrice. Commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard are available where a building is commercial.
Local information from Village of Morrice — Hunting and Weapons Ordinance 19-04 · Village of Morrice — transfer station price update · Village of Morrice — local government, ordinances and departments · Shiawassee County — 2026 Jurisdiction List. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Morrice 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).
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Chirag R MiyaniMichiganWhat happens
Questions
Under conditions, yes. The village ordinance requires the property being hunted to be at least five contiguous acres within the village limits, and prohibits hunting within 450 feet of an occupied building without prior written permission from all owners, renters or occupants.
Because a neighboring parcel of five acres or more may lawfully be hunted, and the 450 foot separation is what the ordinance gives you — and it can be waived by written permission from the occupants. Look at what adjoins the property.
We read the section setting out those two conditions and no further, so we will not describe anything else in the ordinance. The full text is published and the village office can answer.
The village runs its own transfer station, listed among its departments. New pricing took effect on 1 July, and the village has separately announced sewer and trash rate increases.
We could not retrieve the price list or the rate detail — both village posts point at attachments we could not open. Ask the office for the current figures rather than relying on us.
Shiawassee County’s jurisdiction list records Morrice as local on zoning, building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing. We could not find a page naming an inspector, so establish who performs the inspections before planning work.
Twenty to thirty-five years for about half of it — roughly 255 of 574 units were built between 1990 and 2009. Another 123 predate 1940, and the 1970s produced only 21 houses.
On the older stock the line is often the oldest thing on the property; on the newer stock it can hold construction debris from the original build. With sewer rates rising, it is a cost worth knowing about in advance. A camera inspection goes on the same visit.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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