Rose 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 Rose Township home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
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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.
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$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 Rose 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 a Rose 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 reportRose Township housing stock
Rose Township has roughly 2,473 housing units and about 96% 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 — 623 homes, around 25% of the town. At 96% single-family it is almost entirely detached houses, so the inspection is nearly always of a whole building rather than one unit inside one.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $293,800. 98% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Rose 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 Rose Township was built
68% of homes here run on utility gas, and 109 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 294 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Rose Township is rural Oakland County: about 2,473 housing units, 96% of them detached houses, spread across a township that runs its public services lean.
It has no local police force. The Michigan State Police provide policing here — not a township department and not the county sheriff, which is an arrangement we see rarely. Fire and medical response comes from a fire authority funded jointly with the neighboring township, operating as a fully licensed advanced life support agency.
The Township runs building, zoning and code enforcement as a single consolidated department, and it handles permits through an online portal where residents and contractors can submit requests, track status and look information up. For a buyer that is genuinely helpful: permit status here is something you can follow rather than something you have to telephone about.
We should be straight with you about the rest. Rose Township publishes very little detail online — there is no water or sewer department page, and no published guidance on wells, septic systems, driveways or ponds. Its ordinances are hosted separately in a code library. So rather than guess at rules we have not read, this page tells you what we could verify and where to take the rest.
What we can speak to with confidence is the housing. Nearly half the township — 1,197 of those units — was built in the 1970s and 1990s, and only 219 units have gone up since 2000.
Before you buy
Permits
Rose Township consolidates building, zoning and code enforcement into a single department, described simply as permits, forms and enforcement. Offices run Monday to Thursday, half past eight to half past four, and close on holidays.
Permits are submitted and tracked through an online system. The Township states that community members and contractors can submit requests, track status and access information online, and it links out to state contractor license verification, occupational safety resources and model code material alongside its zoning map and ordinance.
The practical value of that for someone buying here is real. On a township where half the housing is thirty to fifty years old, work has certainly been done, and an online permit record is a far easier thing to interrogate than a filing cabinet and a four-day week.
The Township’s ordinances are published in a separate code library, last updated in mid-2025. We have not read individual chapters and we are not going to characterize what they require — but that is where the answers live, and it is searchable.
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, which is what makes a portal search worth running. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, while you still have room to act on what it says.
Rural services
The Township’s emergency services page sets out an arrangement worth understanding before you move somewhere rural.
Policing is provided by the Michigan State Police. Fire and medical response comes from a fire authority funded jointly by Rose Township and the neighboring township, which operates as a fully licensed advanced life support agency and shares the Township’s Mason Street address. Burn permits are issued through that authority online.
None of that is a problem, and an advanced life support agency is a genuine asset. But rural service arrangements are a good reason to take the fire-safety side of an inspection seriously rather than treating it as boilerplate, because on a property set back from a main road the first few minutes matter more.
So we report smoke and carbon monoxide alarm presence and placement, and we say plainly where coverage looks inadequate. We look at the condition and clearances of heating equipment, at venting and flue arrangements, at solid fuel appliances and their hearths and clearances where they are present, and at the electrical panel and accessible wiring for the kinds of informal work that accumulate on rural property over decades.
On a house with a wood stove or fireplace — common enough here — we report what is visible and recommend a specialist chimney evaluation where the situation calls for one. A visual inspection does not extend up a flue, and that is exactly the sort of thing worth knowing before a first winter rather than during it.
Water and waste
The Township publishes no water or sewer department and no guidance on wells or septic systems. On a township that is 96% detached houses, it would be easy to assume most properties are on a well and a septic system, and easy to be wrong about a specific address. So we are not going to assert it.
Get the answer in writing for the parcel you are buying, 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 downspouts terminate and whether they carry water clear of the walls, where any sump pump discharges and whether it has a backup, and how the ground falls away from the foundation. On a rural lot that has been landscaped, planted and re-graded over forty or fifty years, 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 housing
Rose Township’s housing concentrates in two decades: 574 units from the 1970s and 623 from the 1990s, with 394 from the 1980s in between. There are 177 units predating 1940, and only 219 built since 2000.
The 1970s stock is now fifty years old and at a specific point. Service panels of that era are often at or past the stage where an upgrade is worth considering, and electrical work added in stages over five decades is normal rather than exceptional. We report what the panel actually contains, how accessible wiring is arranged, and where work appears to have been added piecemeal.
Plumbing on those houses has usually been renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving transitions between materials at the joins — which is where problems concentrate. Roofs are on a second or third covering. Heating equipment is two or three 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.
The 1990s 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 built with them need ledger connections, flashing, fasteners and post bases genuinely examined.
Rural property also comes with outbuildings, and those deserve proper attention rather than a glance. Pole barns, detached garages and workshops frequently carry their own electrical supply, their own roof and structural questions, and they are often where informal work has happened over the years.
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.
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 a 1970s house that pipe has been in the ground fifty years, under a lot whose trees have had exactly that long to mature. On one of the 177 houses predating 1940, considerably longer. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Rose Township 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 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 matters on rural property in particular. 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 wooded lot with fifty-year-old trees it 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 Rose Township.
Local information from Rose Township — departments, including building, zoning and code enforcement · Rose Township — emergency services, policing and the fire authority · Rose Township — code of ordinances · Rose Township — board meetings and notices. 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 Rose 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
The Michigan State Police provide policing — not a township force and not the county sheriff, which is an arrangement we see rarely. Fire and medical response comes from a fire authority funded jointly with the neighboring township, operating as a fully licensed advanced life support agency.
Through the Township’s online permit portal, where requests can be submitted and status tracked. On a township where half the housing is thirty to fifty years old, that is a genuinely useful thing to have, because work has certainly been done.
Ask, and get it in writing. The Township publishes no water or sewer department and no guidance on wells or septic, so we will not assume. Take those questions to the county health department, and arrange a septic evaluation and water test early.
We do not know, and we would rather say so than fill the gap with guesses. Its ordinances are in a separate searchable code library, and its offices run Monday to Thursday. For anything specific to an address, those two are where to start.
A service panel at or past the point where an upgrade is worth considering, electrical work added in stages, partial plumbing renewals with material transitions at the joins, a second or third roof covering, and heating equipment two or three generations from the original.
We report what is visible — the appliance, its hearth and clearances, and the accessible parts of its venting — and we recommend a specialist chimney evaluation where the situation calls for one. A visual inspection does not extend up a flue, and on rural property that is worth resolving before a first winter.
Yes, and on rural property they are worth including rather than leaving to a later surprise. They frequently carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions, and are often where informal work has accumulated.
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 wooded lot with fifty-year-old trees that is where roots go. A camera inspection is added to the same visit.
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