Romeo, 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 Romeo 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 Romeo and across Macomb 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 Romeo 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 reportRomeo housing stock
Romeo has roughly 1,834 housing units and about 57% 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 years before 1940 — 523 homes, around 29% of the town. It is also less detached-house territory than most of the area at 57%, so condominiums, duplexes and small multi-family buildings are a bigger share of what we inspect here — and those bring their own questions about what is yours to maintain and what belongs to the association.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $228,800.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Romeo 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 Romeo was built
95% of homes here run on utility gas.
Local knowledge
Romeo’s historic district was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, which makes it one of the earliest designations in the region, and the Village established an ordinance and a commission to look after it afterwards.
Most historic district guidance is about what you may change. Romeo’s is worth reading for something else: the commission reviews plans for the construction, alteration, moving or demolition of all buildings in the district.
That last pair of words matters. If you are looking at a run-down property in the district with any thought of clearing the site, or moving a structure on it, that is not a decision you make alone. It goes to the commission like any alteration would.
It is a reasonable rule for a village whose character is its main asset, and it is not a reason to avoid the district. But it does change how you should read a badly deteriorated building here, because the cheapest option elsewhere — take it down and start again — is not automatically available.
That makes the condition report on a historic Romeo property genuinely decisive. Whether something is repairable, and at what depth of work, is the question the whole purchase turns on.
The village is also completely built out: 523 of its roughly 1,834 units predate 1940, and nothing at all has been built since 2009. About 43% of units are attached or multi-unit rather than detached.
Before you buy
The historic district
The Village’s historic district commission describes its ordinance as preserving the architectural history of the village’s structures, protecting property values, maintaining village character, supporting the local economy and promoting the districts for the education, pleasure and welfare of citizens.
The scope of review is broad: construction, alteration, moving or demolition of all buildings in the district. We have not read the ordinance itself and we are not going to state which work might be exempt or where the boundaries run — the Village publishes a map, and that is the place to start.
What we can speak to is the practical consequence for a buyer, and it is significant. In an unprotected area, a building in poor condition has an obvious fallback: clear it. Here that fallback is subject to review, so the realistic question becomes what it would take to repair what is there.
That is precisely the question a thorough inspection answers. On a historic Romeo property we report the condition of the structure rather than the surface: what the foundation and any visible framing show, whether settlement is historic and stable or active, the condition of sills, joists and bearing points where accessible, and what the roof structure shows from inside the attic.
On the envelope we look at whether siding has rot behind paint, whether a porch is settling or simply weathered, the state of sashes and frames rather than just glazing, and the condition of masonry and mortar joints where present. Those are the findings that determine whether repair is realistic — which inside a historic district is usually the better route anyway.
A buyer’s inspection does not assess historic district compliance and is not a permit search. What it does is establish the condition and the depth of work involved, so you can go to the commission with a realistic proposal rather than an aspiration.
The housing
Romeo has added no housing at all since 2009. Its 1,834 units are 523 from before 1940, 302 from the 1970s, 301 from the 1990s, and the rest spread across the decades in between.
That means every purchase here is a purchase of an older building, and on the pre-1940 stock the useful question is never whether a system has been updated but how, when and by whom.
Electrical comes first. A house from that era was wired for a fraction of today’s demand and every one has had attention since, but there is a wide gulf between a genuine rewire and a newer panel fitted in front of original distribution. Eighty-five years of circuits added in stages by different hands is normal rather than exceptional, and in a district where exterior work is regulated, electrical work is one of the things that happens inside without anybody outside noticing.
Plumbing follows the same pattern: renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving transitions between materials at the joins, which is where problems concentrate. Roofs are on a fourth or fifth covering. Heating equipment is several generations from the original, and a newer high-efficiency appliance fitted into an older chimney or vent arrangement is a common and specific thing we check.
Foundations of the period are typically stone or early block, and their condition depends far more on how water has been managed around the building than on original construction. On a village lot with limited space between buildings, that water management is usually the whole story.
With 43% of units attached or multi-unit, a good number of purchases involve shared structure — shared walls and roofs, and a boundary between owner and association responsibility that is a document rather than a wall.
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 — which in a village with this much historic commercial frontage is a service we are asked for regularly.
Village services
For a village of fewer than two thousand housing units, Romeo runs a remarkable amount in-house — its own police and fire departments, a public works department, a wastewater treatment plant, the cemetery and a downtown development authority.
That has a practical advantage for a buyer. Questions about water billing, drainage, refuse or the condition of the street generally have a local answer rather than a county one, and the Village publishes its forms and applications together.
It is also visibly investing in its center. A downtown streetscape survey and a business attraction strategy for the central business district are both live, which on a village whose economy depends on its historic core is worth knowing about if you are buying near it.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and does not assess ordinance compliance. What it does is establish the condition of the building so the questions you take to the Village are specific ones. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, while you still have room to act on what it says.
Stormwater
Romeo operates under a municipal separate storm sewer system permit, which the Village describes as working with the State to minimize harmful environmental impacts to surface waters. It sits in the Clinton River watershed and points residents to the watershed council for education and resources.
It publishes stormwater planning documents and best practice guidance as separate documents. We have not read those, so we are not going to describe any rule about sump pumps, footing drains or downspout connections — if you are planning drainage work, ask the Village directly.
What we report is the part of the picture that is visible on the property. 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. How the ground falls away from the building.
On a house that has stood since before 1940, that fall is almost never what the builder intended. Eighty-five years of added paths, raised beds, new drives, landscaping and settled ground change how water moves around a foundation, and the evidence of what that has caused turns up in the basement rather than in the garden.
Inside, we look for 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 usually a story about something that happened once.
Most of what we find on the drainage side is straightforward to correct and inexpensive relative to what it prevents — and on a historic building, keeping water away from the structure is the single most valuable maintenance there is.
The buried line
The line running from the building out to the sewer main belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On one of the 523 houses here predating 1940, that pipe may have been in the ground for the better part of a century, under a street whose trees have had exactly that long to mature. With no housing built in the village since 2009, there is effectively no new stock and therefore effectively no new laterals.
We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Romeo 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 village this old it is among the most useful things you can add, because the lateral is invisible, not covered by a standard inspection, and generally unknown to the seller.
On an attached or multi-unit property, establish who owns the drain run before assuming anything — it may be shared, and that is a question for the association documents.
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 Romeo.
Local information from Village of Romeo — historic district commission and the scope of its review · Village of Romeo — stormwater and the MS4 program · Village of Romeo — building department · Village of Romeo — forms and applications. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Macomb County
Zone 3 is the lowest of the three EPA categories — the predicted average indoor level across the county is below 2 pCi/L. So Romeo is not where Michigan’s alarming radon numbers are, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
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 · Macomb County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Romeo 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
Mitch did our inspection for the sale of our home and he was professional, efficient and friendly. The report was sent to me and my agent in a timely fashion and I appreciated how quickly the appointment was made and everything was finished! Would recommend to others.
Kendra AllenRoseville, MII 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
The district was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, which makes it one of the earliest designations in the region. The Village established its ordinance and commission afterwards.
Not without review. The commission reviews plans for the construction, alteration, moving or demolition of all buildings in the district. If you are looking at a deteriorated property with any thought of clearing the site, that is not a decision you make alone.
It makes the repairability question decisive. In an unprotected area a poor building has an obvious fallback — clear it. Here that is subject to review, so what it would take to repair what is there becomes the question the whole purchase turns on.
Check the Village’s published map. We have not stated boundaries and will not guess at them, and it is worth settling before you plan any work visible from the street.
Structure rather than surface. What the foundation and visible framing show, whether settlement is historic and stable or active, the condition of sills, joists and bearing points where accessible, and what the roof structure shows from the attic — along with rot behind paint, porch condition, sashes and frames, and masonry and mortar joints.
None at all since 2009. About 523 of roughly 1,834 units predate 1940, and every purchase here is a purchase of an older building.
Around 43% of units are attached or multi-unit. On those, establish before anything else where the boundary falls between your responsibility and a shared one — that comes from the association documents, and it determines what any finding will cost you.
Yes, more than in most places. With no housing built since 2009 there are effectively no new laterals, and on a pre-1940 house the pipe may have been under a tree-lined street for close to a century. 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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