Roseville, 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 Roseville 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 Roseville 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 Roseville 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 reportRoseville housing stock
Roseville has roughly 21,933 housing units and about 73% of them are single-family detached. Homes built in a single stretch tend to wear out in the same places at the same time. That is why when somewhere was built is the first thing worth knowing about it.
The busiest stretch of building here was the 1950s: 7,451 homes, about 34% of everything standing today.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $129,400. There are around 245 manufactured and mobile homes in Roseville. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement. Around 1,131 homes sit in two-to-four unit buildings, where a shared roof, a shared wall and sometimes a shared furnace mean the report has to be clear about where one unit stops.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist a Roseville home inspector works through in a home of this age, and every item on it gets photographed and written up whichever way it turns out.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Roseville was built
89% of homes here run on utility gas, and 28 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 231 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Roseville is a compact postwar Macomb County city where most of the housing arrived in the same two decades, and where a couple of municipal registrations catch people out at the wrong moment.
Of roughly 21,933 housing units, about 34% date from the 1950s and 22% from the 1960s — 56% in twenty years — with a median build year of 1961 and around 73% single-family detached. When that much of a city goes up together, the build year stops telling you anything useful about an individual house. Sixty years of separate decisions about roofs, furnaces, wiring and windows do that instead.
The City is clear about what its own Building Department is for: building personnel are responsible for evaluating existing structures and for reviewing and inspecting structures and components to be altered or erected. That is permitted work and code compliance. It is not a condition report on a house you are thinking of buying.
Two registrations are worth knowing about before you commit — one for rentals, one for properties that have been standing empty.
Before you buy
What the City does and does not check
This is worth spelling out because the paperwork name is misleading, and several communities nearby genuinely do inspect houses at sale.
Roseville publishes an Application for Certificate of Occupancy, and reading it settles what it covers. It asks for the name of the business and the type of business under a heading marked for commercial and industrial properties, and the applicant agrees to have a ladder on site to provide access to rooftops and suspended ceilings. Those are commercial premises, not family homes.
We found no residential point-of-sale inspection requirement in Roseville. Confirm the position for a specific address with the Building Department, but do not plan a timeline around a municipal inspection of the house that may not exist.
Which puts the work back where it belongs. 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. On a city where most houses are around sixty years old, that is the document that tells you what you are actually buying.
Registrations
Neither of these is about the condition of a house, but both can land on a new owner, so they belong in the same conversation as an inspection.
The first covers rentals. Roseville’s Non-Owner Occupied Housing Ordinance establishes safeguard controls for non-owner-occupied residential structures and their accessory uses. Once an application and payment are submitted, the City contacts the owner to schedule an inspection with a rental inspector, and a Certificate of Compliance follows a successful inspection. The published fee schedule includes a transfer of ownership charge, which tells you what happens when a let property is sold: the registration follows the new owner rather than carrying over.
The second covers empty houses. Roseville operates a vacant property registration alongside its permit applications. If a property you are considering has stood unoccupied — a probate sale, a relocation, a house that has been on the market a long time — it is worth asking the City and your title company where that stands before you close.
On both, the City is the authority and we are not. What an inspection contributes is the condition side: what state the property is actually in before you take on whatever obligations come with it.
Getting work done
If an inspection turns up work you want done quickly, Roseville has a couple of local realities that affect the timetable.
The City registers contractors, and that registration is good for one year from the date it is issued. Contractors register or re-register by sending the Building Department a completed form together with copies of their contractor license and driver license. For a homeowner choosing between quotes, whether a contractor is currently registered with the City is a simple and reasonable thing to ask.
The second is scheduling. The City states plainly that most inspections cannot be scheduled for the next business day, so permitted work needs a little more lead time here than people sometimes assume. Plan submissions also require three hard copies and one digital copy, which is worth knowing before a contractor tells you the paperwork is trivial.
On our side, what we assess outside the house is how it manages water: accessible grading, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace and sump equipment where present. 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 either kind of visit.
The buried line
In a city where more than half the housing went up in the fifties and sixties, the private sewer lateral is one of the least known things about a property.
It runs underground from the house to the public system and no visual inspection can see inside it. Six decades is ample time for tree roots to find a joint, for ground movement to displace a section, or for repairs to have been made that nobody now remembers. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Roseville laterals are generally made of, and in a city this uniform the date would be a weak guide anyway.
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. It is added to the same visit rather than booked separately.
Local information from City of Roseville — Building Department · City of Roseville — rental property information · City of Roseville — applications and informational handouts. 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 Roseville is not where the state’s worst readings turn up, and we would rather say that plainly than imply 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 Roseville 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, MIThe inspection was very thorough and professionally done. I was happy with how well everything went and mostly how everything was explained. Nothing left me feeling confused or questioning what was looked over and my next steps. I am very big on understanding the terminology on what happening especially if I am new to what is going on so I could not give higher praise on the explanations, details, and professionalism.
Carlos SmithRoseville, 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
We found no residential point-of-sale requirement. The City does publish an Application for Certificate of Occupancy, which is easy to mistake for one — but the form asks for the name and type of business under a heading marked for commercial and industrial properties, and has the applicant agree to have a ladder on site for access to rooftops and suspended ceilings. It is a commercial document. Confirm 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.
Most of the city arrived in two decades. Of roughly 21,933 housing units, about 34% date from the 1950s and 22% from the 1960s, giving a median build year of 1961, with around 73% single-family detached. When that much of a city is the same age, the build year distinguishes very little between one house and another — what separates them is sixty years of individual decisions about roofs, heating, wiring and windows, which is exactly what an inspection establishes.
The City’s Non-Owner Occupied Housing Ordinance establishes safeguard controls for non-owner-occupied residential structures and accessory uses. After an application and payment are submitted, the City schedules an inspection with a rental inspector, and a Certificate of Compliance follows a successful inspection. The published fee schedule includes a transfer of ownership charge, which is the practical point for a buyer: the registration follows the new owner rather than carrying over from the seller. Knowing the condition of the property before closing tells you what stands between you and that inspection.
Ask the City about vacant property registration before you close. Roseville operates one alongside its permit applications, so a house that has been unoccupied — a probate sale, a relocation, something that has been on the market a long time — may have an obligation attached to it. Your title company and the Building Department are the people to confirm the position with. A home inspection cannot tell you the registration status; what it does tell you is the condition of a property that may have been unheated or unused for a while, which is worth knowing on its own.
The City registers contractors, and registration is good for one year from the date it is issued. Contractors register or re-register by sending the Building Department the completed form with copies of their contractor license and driver license. If you are choosing between quotes after an inspection, asking whether a contractor is currently registered with the City is a straightforward check. Worth also allowing time: the City states that most inspections cannot be scheduled for the next business day, so permitted work needs a little lead time.
On this housing stock it is worth considering. With about 34% of units from the 1950s and 22% from the 1960s, a great many laterals here have been in the ground around sixty years. The line is buried and no visual inspection can see inside it, and we would not guess a material from a build year — no authoritative source establishes what Roseville laterals are generally made of. Putting a camera down the line documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same appointment.
Yes. You can book a Roseville home inspector with us seven days a week, and we cover the rest of Macomb 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.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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