Orion 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 Orion 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 Orion Township and across Oakland 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 an Orion 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 reportOrion Township housing stock
Orion Township has roughly 15,958 housing units and about 77% 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 — 4,222 homes, around 26% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $322,600. There are around 300 manufactured and mobile homes in Orion 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 an Orion 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 Orion Township was built
92% 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 117 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Orion Township has a rental rule we have not seen anywhere else in this region, and if you are buying near water with any thought of letting the property, it is the first thing to check.
The Township caps the number of rental properties allowed on each lake. Not township-wide — per lake, with the caps varying between them. That is covered below, because it can decide whether a purchase makes sense at all.
The housing itself is modern. Of roughly 15,958 units, about 26% date from the 1990s, 16% from the 1970s, 11% from the 2010s and 10% from the 2000s, with a median build year of 1988 and around 77% single-family detached. There is older stock too, but the bulk of the township is from the last forty years.
A house built in 1988 is now nearing forty years old, which is past the expected service life of an original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater. Which of those have been renewed is not something a build year can tell you.
Before you buy
Lakes and lettings
This is the most unusual local rule we have come across, and it is one that can affect whether a purchase works at all.
The Township’s rental ordinance requires property owners to register rental units, comply with maintenance standards, and take part in mandatory inspections at the time of registration. Then it adds something we have found nowhere else: it places limits on the number of rental properties allowed on each lake, with those caps varying by lake, described by the Township as intended to support neighborhood stability and responsible property use.
Read that as a buyer with a plan. If you are considering a waterfront property partly because it could be let, the number of rentals already permitted on that particular lake is a question to answer before you make an offer, not after. The Township is explicit that the caps vary and that owners should contact it for the most current information — so that is exactly what we would tell you to do. We do not hold that information and would not guess at it.
Alongside the ordinance the Township publishes a fee schedule, pet guidelines, rental inspection guidelines and home inspection guidelines. Reading the rental inspection guidelines before you buy tells you what standard the property will be held to.
None of that is a condition report. A home buyer inspection covers the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, photographed and written up with how urgent each finding is — which is what tells you whether a property will pass a registration inspection comfortably or not.
Water
The Township’s cross connection program is worth understanding because the things it covers are ordinary domestic ones.
The Water and Sewer Division is required, under state and federal safe drinking water law, the plumbing and residential codes and Township ordinance, to verify that cross connections on private plumbing do not put the public water system at risk. A cross connection is any piping arrangement that could let contaminants flow backwards into the public supply — which can happen when pressure drops after a water main break, or when a boiler or pump pushes water back the other way. The Township names garden hoses and irrigation systems as examples, since both can carry pesticides and bacteria.
Backflow devices are fitted to prevent that, and the state requires testable devices to be tested at a minimum of every three years. Pressure vacuum breakers and reduced pressure principle assemblies are among the testable types.
We are not the backflow tester and we do not certify devices. But during an inspection we are looking at the plumbing, the exterior hose connections and any irrigation or sump equipment anyway, and we report what we find — along with accessible grading, gutters and downspouts, foundation conditions and the basement or crawlspace.
Permits and help
Orion Township runs something worth knowing about if an inspection turns up work you want done.
Its Building Department offers an Ask the Building Official service, alongside online permit applications, inspection scheduling and application status checking. It also lists the codes currently in force openly — the 2015 Michigan Residential Code, the 2021 Building, Plumbing and Mechanical Codes, and the 2023 Electrical Code — which is more transparency than many departments offer and useful if you are planning work.
Permit history on a property is worth checking alongside the inspection, with the caution that always applies: a permit does not establish that work is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that work was done badly.
What an inspection establishes is what is actually installed and what condition it is in now — which on a house approaching forty years old is usually a question about first replacements rather than original construction.
The buried line
A house from the late 1980s is newer than most of what we inspect in this region. Its sewer lateral has still been in the ground close to forty years.
The line runs from the house to the public system and no visual inspection can see inside it, whatever the build year. Four decades is long enough for trees planted with a 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 a yard. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Orion 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 property of this age it often confirms a clean line, which is worth having in writing. It goes on the same visit.
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.
Local information from Orion Township — rental ordinance information · Orion Township — Building Department · Orion Township — cross connection control and backflow testing. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Oakland County
Zone 2 is the middle EPA category — the predicted average indoor level across the county sits between 2 and 4 pCi/L. What a zone cannot tell you is anything about one house: 29% of tests actually run in Oakland County still came back at or above the EPA’s 4 pCi/L action level. A zone is a prediction of an average, and nobody lives in an average.
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 · Oakland County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones. Elevated-result share from the Michigan Indoor Radon Program.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Orion 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, MIExcellent sums up the entire experience, from the initial call to set up the appointment with staff that was informative and helpful, up until the actual inspection that was very professional and thorough with any and all questions I had answered. I would highly recommend Trademark to anyone who needs inspection services. Thanks again Curt, my inspector, for an excellent job.
Johnny Thomas JrSouthfield, MIWhat happens
Questions
Yes, and this is unusual enough to check before you buy. The Township’s rental ordinance places limits on the number of rental properties allowed on each lake, and those caps vary by lake — the Township describes them as intended to support neighborhood stability and responsible property use. If your plan for a waterfront property involves letting it, the number already permitted on that particular lake is a question to answer before making an offer. The Township is explicit that owners should contact it for the most current information, and we would not guess at figures we do not hold.
Registration of rental units, compliance with maintenance standards, and mandatory inspections at the time of registration, under its Rental Housing Certification and Regulations ordinance. The Township publishes a fee schedule, pet guidelines, rental inspection guidelines and home inspection guidelines alongside the ordinance, so you can see the standard in advance. Reading the rental inspection guidelines before you buy tells you what the property will be held to — and a home inspection tells you whether it is likely to get there comfortably.
It applies wherever there is a testable backflow device. Orion Township’s Water and Sewer Division is required by state and federal safe drinking water law, the plumbing and residential codes and Township ordinance to verify that cross connections on private plumbing do not risk contaminating the public supply. The state requires testable devices to be tested at a minimum of every three years, and pressure vacuum breakers and reduced pressure principle assemblies are among the testable types. The Township names garden hoses and irrigation systems as ordinary examples of cross connection risk.
We found no residential point-of-sale requirement. The Township does run rental registration with mandatory inspections at registration, so that matters if you are buying a let property or intending to let one. Confirm the position for a specific address with the Building Department, and in the meantime plan on your own inspection being the one examining the house on your behalf.
Mostly modern. Of roughly 15,958 housing units, about 26% date from the 1990s, 16% from the 1970s, 11% from the 2010s and 10% from the 2000s, with a median build year of 1988 and around 77% single-family detached. There is older stock as well, but the bulk of the township has gone up in the last forty years. A house from 1988 is nearing forty, which is past the expected service life of an original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater — so the useful question is which have been renewed.
It is worth considering. Four decades is less exposure than eighty years but far from none: trees planted with a subdivision have had time to reach a joint, ground settles around backfill and can leave a belly, and later landscaping 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 property of this vintage frequently confirms a clean run. It is added to the same appointment.
Yes. You can book an Orion Township home inspector with us seven days a week, and we cover the rest of Oakland 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.
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