New Lothrop, Michigan
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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 New Lothrop 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 New Lothrop 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 New Lothrop 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 reportNew Lothrop housing stock
New Lothrop has roughly 284 housing units and about 65% of them are single-family detached. The year a house went up decides more about what an inspection turns up than almost anything else about it, which is why it is where we start rather than where we finish.
More of it dates from the 1970s than from any other decade — 60 homes, roughly 21% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $146,400.
This is not a forecast for any one address. It is where a New Lothrop home inspector starts in a home of this age — and whatever we actually find, it goes in the report with photographs.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When New Lothrop was built
85% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 6 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
The first practical thing to know about New Lothrop is that the village office is open on Thursday mornings from nine until half past ten. Ninety minutes a week. If you are used to municipal offices being somewhere you drop into, adjust the plan.
What makes that workable, and worth saying plainly, is that the village has put the things people actually need onto its website instead. Online payment covers utilities and taxes. The ordinances are published. So is the annual water quality report. In practice the village website is the counter, and the Thursday window is for the questions that genuinely need a person.
So the sequence for a buyer here is the opposite of the usual one. Read first — the village minutes are published as well — and arrive at Thursday morning with the one or two things the website could not answer — which, if you are buying, will usually be about a specific parcel rather than about the rules in general.
The second thing to know is that the housing here is not what the neighboring villages would lead you to expect. This is a small agricultural community with its own elementary and high school, but its housing stock has a median build year of 1970 — a good deal newer than most of the villages around it — and about a third of it is something other than a single-family detached house.
A home inspection is not a code inspection or a permit 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
The housing
New Lothrop has roughly 284 housing units with a median build year of 1970, and about 65% of them are single-family detached. Both numbers matter, and together they make this a different inspection from the pre-war villages nearby.
Start with the age. A 1970 house is past fifty, which puts it in a specific band. Aluminum branch circuit wiring was installed in a lot of homes in that period. It is not a defect in itself — what matters is how the terminations were made and whether anything has been done about them since — and we report it where we find it, plainly, so it can go to an electrician rather than becoming a surprise after closing.
Urea-formaldehyde foam insulation turns up in some mid-to-late 1970s houses. It is uncommon, and where it appears it is worth identifying properly rather than guessing at from an attic hatch. Beyond that it is the arithmetic of fifty years: roof coverings on a second or third generation, heating and water heating equipment several replacements deep, and an original electrical service capacity sized for a 1970 household.
Now the other number. With about a third of the stock in something other than detached houses, an inspection here is not always of a whole standalone building, and the questions change when it is not: what is shared, what is yours, where one unit ends and the next begins, and who is responsible for the roof above you. We establish which situation you are actually in before anything else.
Foundations of the period are typically poured concrete or block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on how they were built. 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.
Water on the ground
The village’s own history page is worth reading for one geographic fact. Both of the settlements that became New Lothrop grew up along the Misteguay Creek — Hazelton on the creek in 1877, and a smaller settlement called Lathrop two miles up the same water. Communities were sited on watercourses because the water ran the mills.
We want to be careful about what follows from that, because it would be easy to imply more than we know. We have no flood data for New Lothrop, no floodplain mapping, and no statement from the village about water. So we are not going to tell you this village floods, and we are not going to tell you it does not. Flood exposure is specific to an address, and it is a question for the village and the county rather than for us. A home inspection is not a flood risk assessment and we never present it as one.
What we can do is report how a particular property handles the water that lands on it, which is a different question and one that matters on any lot anywhere. Where the downspouts actually terminate, and whether they carry water away from the building or simply release it at the corner of the foundation. Whether there is a sump, where it discharges to, and whether there is any backup arrangement if the power goes.
How the ground falls away from each elevation, whether soil or beds have been built up against the wall over the years, and where surface water collects and leaves the property. On a rural village lot, where it leaves is often a question with a neighbor at the end of it.
And inside: the visible condition of the foundation walls, staining and efflorescence that record where water has been, and whether a basement or crawl space smells like somewhere that stays dry. Those observations are what let a buyer ask the right question of the right office.
The buried line
The village takes online payment for utilities without specifying on that page which services a given property receives, so we are not going to tell you what any particular address is connected to. 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 1970 house that pipe is past fifty 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, the camera documents the building drain out to the tank — the stretch a septic evaluation does not examine — and the evaluation itself is specialist work arranged through the county health department, on its own timetable, so it needs booking early.
A camera inspection 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 get in touch about a specific address in New Lothrop.
Local information from Village of New Lothrop — village website, office hours and announcements · Village of New Lothrop — our history · Village of New Lothrop — contact the village · Village of New Lothrop — village minutes. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their New Lothrop 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!!
Chirag R MiyaniMichiganWhat happens
Questions
Thursday, 9:00am to 10:30am. Ninety minutes a week, so read the website first — ordinances, online payment for utilities and taxes, and the annual water quality report are all published there.
The median build year is 1970 across roughly 284 housing units, which is meaningfully newer than most of the villages nearby and changes what matters at an inspection.
It is a live question in housing of this period rather than a reason not to buy. It is not a defect in itself; what matters is how the terminations were made and whether anything has been done since. We report it where we find it.
No. About 65% of the housing units are single-family detached, so roughly a third is something else. We establish which situation a property is in before anything else, because it changes what is yours and what is shared.
We have no flood data for the village and we are not going to guess in either direction. Both of the settlements that became New Lothrop grew up on the Misteguay Creek, but flood exposure is specific to an address and belongs with the village and the county. A home inspection is not a flood risk assessment.
We could not establish that from the village website and we are not going to guess. Ask at the office before planning work, rather than assuming it runs the way a neighboring community does.
The village publishes its annual water quality report on its website. We have not read it and will not characterize what is in it — read the village’s own copy.
On a median 1970 house the line out from the building is past fifty and no visual inspection reaches inside it. A camera inspection goes on the same visit and shows what is actually there.
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