Owosso 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 Owosso 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 Owosso Township 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 an Owosso 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 reportOwosso Township housing stock
Owosso Township has roughly 2,145 housing units and about 81% 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 2000s — 406 homes, around 19% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $174,200. There are around 231 manufactured and mobile homes in Owosso 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 Owosso 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 Owosso Township was built
62% of homes here run on utility gas, and 23 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 339 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
If you want the full permit history of a house in Owosso Township, you need to know something most buyers never think to ask: the building work and the zoning are handled by two different levels of government.
Shiawassee County publishes a jurisdiction list — a table showing, community by community, whether zoning, building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing are handled locally or by the County. Owosso Township is a split entry. Zoning is local. Building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing are all County.
So the record of when a house was rewired, when the furnace was replaced, when an addition was built or when the plumbing was reworked sits with the County’s community development department, not with the Township. Zoning questions — what you may do with the land — go the other way.
That is genuinely useful to know in advance, because a buyer who asks only one office comes away with half the answer, and the two are not in the same building or even the same town.
The other thing worth flagging is that Owosso Township does not appear to publish a website of its own. We looked, and could not find one. That makes the County’s published material the practical starting point for almost everything, and it is good material.
The housing is spread evenly across the decades, with 406 units from the 2000s the largest single group and 330 predating 1950.
Before you buy
Permits
The County department of community development describes its role plainly: land use planning, zoning, and building and trade inspection for the majority of communities in Shiawassee County. Which communities, and which functions, is set out in its published jurisdiction list.
That table is worth looking at before you do anything else. It is a single page, it is current, and it tells you exactly which office to approach for what. For Owosso Township it shows zoning as local and all four construction functions as County.
On the County side, the building and trades function covers the review and issuance of permits for new construction, inspection of improvements during construction, and enforcement of the state construction codes. It issues zoning, building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits, requires contractor registration, and asks that applicants contact the office before submitting anything to make sure the right paperwork is filed.
For a buyer, the practical instruction is simple: make two records requests, and be clear which functions each office covers so nothing falls between them. On a township where the housing spans every decade from before 1940 to the 2000s, that history is worth having.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and cannot tell you whether a permit was pulled. What it does is tell you what was actually done to a property and how well, which is what makes those two requests targeted rather than speculative. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day.
Outbuildings
The County publishes two separate sets of accessory structure setback requirements: one for properties of five acres or less, and one for properties over five acres. We have not read either document and will not state any distance, but the existence of the split tells you the rules genuinely differ depending on the size of the parcel.
That matters on a township like this one, where pole barns, detached garages, workshops and large sheds are common. If you are buying a property with one, or planning one, find out which side of the five-acre line the parcel falls and get the right document.
Outbuildings deserve proper attention on an inspection rather than a walk past, and we give them that. They frequently carry their own electrical supply, sometimes run informally from the house, and that supply is worth looking at: how it is run, whether it is protected, and what the panel or subpanel arrangement is.
We also report the structural and weather condition of what is there — roof covering and framing where visible, door tracks and headers, foundation or slab condition, and whether the ground around the building sheds water or holds it. On older pole buildings the base of the posts is where deterioration starts, and it is usually the first thing to check.
The County also publishes a soil erosion and sedimentation control permit waiver, so a soil erosion permit or a waiver is part of the process here. If you are planning ground works — a new drive, significant grading, a pond — that is a question to raise early, particularly on a sloping site or near water.
The housing
Owosso Township’s housing is unusually evenly distributed: 406 units from the 2000s, 336 from the 1990s, 306 from the 1950s, 303 from the 1970s, 226 from the 1960s and 194 from the 1980s, with 330 predating 1950.
That means there is no useful generalization about a house here, and the inspection has to start from what is actually in front of it rather than from a build year.
On the mid-century stock, expect service panels at or past the point where an upgrade is worth considering, and electrical work added in stages over five or six decades. Plumbing has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving material transitions at the joins, which is where problems concentrate. Roofs are on a second or third covering, and heating equipment is two or three generations from the original — with a newer high-efficiency appliance fitted into older venting being a common and specific thing we check.
The 1990s and 2000s houses are at the first full round of replacements: original roof coverings reaching the end, water heaters on their second, and furnaces and condensers at the age where the next failure means replacement rather than repair. Decks from that period need ledger connections, flashing, fasteners and post bases genuinely examined.
On the pre-1940 houses the questions are different again: electrical rebuilt in stages across eighty years or more, 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 original construction.
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 and waste
Neither the County department nor any township site we could find publishes guidance on water supply or waste water for properties here. So we are not going to state whether an address is on public water and sewer or on a well and a septic system.
Get the answer in writing for the specific parcel, and take well and septic questions to the county health department. A septic evaluation is specialist work carried out by or through them. It answers questions no visual inspection can — whether a drainfield is failing, and the true condition of the tank — and on a rural property it needs arranging early because it takes its own time. A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation.
What we inspect is the building and everything from the house side of the system inward: the accessible supply and drain lines, the vent arrangements we can see, how fixtures behave when the system is loaded, and the visible condition of any pump, pressure tank and treatment equipment.
Outside, we report where the downspouts terminate and whether they carry water clear of the walls, where any sump pump discharges and whether there is a backup arrangement, and how the ground falls away from the foundation. On a lot that has been landscaped and re-graded over decades, that fall is often no longer what anyone intended, and it is usually the cheapest thing to put right.
Inside, we look for what water leaves behind: staining, efflorescence, mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes, and corrosion at the base of mechanical equipment.
The buried line
Whatever a property here drains to, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On one of the 330 houses predating 1950 that pipe has been in the ground seventy-five years or more, through more than one era of drain material. On a 1990s house it is younger but not new. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what laterals 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. On a septic property it documents the building drain out to the tank — the owner’s pipe, and the part a septic evaluation does not examine.
That gap is worth understanding. A septic evaluation looks at the tank and the field; the run between the house and the tank is nobody’s job by default, and on a rural lot with mature trees that is exactly where roots go.
A camera inspection is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately. You can read what our clients say, look through answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Owosso Township.
Local information from Shiawassee County — 2026 jurisdiction list showing which functions are local and which are County · Shiawassee County — department of community development · Shiawassee County — building and trades permits and contractor registration · Shiawassee County — planning and zoning. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Owosso 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
Shiawassee County. Its published jurisdiction list shows Owosso Township as a split entry: zoning is handled locally, while building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing are all County functions. So construction records sit with the County.
Two places. Make a records request to the County for building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing, and take zoning questions to the Township. Be clear which functions each covers so nothing falls between them.
We were unable to find one, and we checked a number of likely addresses. That makes the County’s published material the practical starting point for most questions — and it is good material, including a current jurisdiction table.
No. The City of Owosso is a separate municipality with its own row on the same County jurisdiction table. Establish which one an address is in before relying on anything.
They depend on the size of the parcel. The County publishes two separate accessory structure setback documents, one for properties of five acres or less and one for properties over five acres. Find out which side of that line the parcel falls on.
Yes, properly rather than in passing. They often carry their own electrical supply, sometimes run informally from the house, and we report how it is run and protected along with roof, framing, doors and foundation condition. On older pole buildings the base of the posts is where deterioration starts.
Ask, and get it in writing. Neither the County nor any township site we could find publishes guidance on water supply or waste water here, so we will not assume. Take those questions to the county health department and arrange any septic evaluation early.
Yes, and on a septic property it covers a real gap. A septic evaluation examines the tank and the field; the run between the house and the tank belongs to nobody by default, and on a rural lot with mature trees that is where roots go. A camera inspection is added to the same visit.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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