Superior 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 Superior 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 Superior Township and across Washtenaw 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 Superior 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 reportSuperior Township housing stock
Superior Township has roughly 5,802 housing units and about 67% 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 2000s: 1,394 homes, about 24% of everything standing today.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $244,400. There are around 845 manufactured and mobile homes in Superior Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist a Superior Township 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 Superior Township was built
83% of homes here run on utility gas, and 16 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 73 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
There is a date here that changes how you should read a permit search, and almost nobody knows it: as of 1 February 2025, Superior Township requires a building permit for re-roofing projects.
Before that, it did not. Which means that on a roof replaced at any point before February 2025 — and on a township whose largest single decade is the 2000s, that is the great majority of roofs — finding no permit is exactly what you should expect. It tells you nothing about whether the work was done well, and it is not evidence that a corner was cut.
That matters because a roof is usually the largest single line on a buyer’s budget, and because permit searches are increasingly the first thing people do. Reading an absence as a red flag here would be reading it wrong.
The other practical thing to know is that this Township is still on paper: permit applications may be mailed or brought in with payment, and it cannot accept electronic applications or payment.
The housing is comparatively recent — of about 5,802 units, 1,394 date from the 2000s and 1,096 from the 1990s, with roughly 51% built in 1990 or later and around 67% single-family detached.
Before you buy
The permit record
Permit searches are useful, and they are useful only if you know what the record is capable of containing.
The Building Department publishes a notice stating that effective 1 February 2025, a building permit is required for re-roofing projects. That is a change, and it establishes the boundary: work done after that date should appear, work done before it will not.
On a township where 1,394 units date from the 2000s and 1,096 from the 1990s, a great many roofs were replaced somewhere in the last fifteen years — all of them before the rule took effect. So the search comes back empty and means nothing at all.
This is the second version of the same trap in this region. Elsewhere a city may leave electrical, plumbing and mechanical permitting to the State, so its local record looks bare on those trades. Here, roofs were simply outside the permit system until last year. In both cases the honest reading is the same: an absent record is a gap in coverage, not a finding.
What does establish the condition of a roof is looking at it. A buyer’s inspection reports the covering and its apparent age and condition, flashings, penetrations, the state of the eaves and any visible decking issues, along with the roof structure and ventilation from inside where accessible — and says plainly what could not be reached.
Contractors
Superior Township publishes something most municipalities leave to the State website, and it is worth knowing before you hire anybody.
A person who contracts with a homeowner for residential construction or remodeling where the total value of the project is $600 or more, including material and labor, must be licensed in Michigan as a Residential Builder or as a Maintenance and Alteration Contractor. That threshold is low, and it catches a great deal of ordinary work.
The two licenses are not the same thing. A Builders License allows a contractor to do all the work on a project except plumbing, mechanical and electrical. A Maintenance and Alteration contractor may perform only the specific trade or trades endorsed on their license — so a license held for one trade does not authorize another.
For a buyer, that is a useful lens on work that has already been done. Where a house shows a run of alterations by one hand, the question of what that person was licensed to do is a reasonable one, and the State publishes a license verification service.
The Township also names its authority: it enforces the State of Michigan building, plumbing, mechanical and electrical codes as required by Public Act 230, the Stille-DeRossett-Hale Single State Construction Code Act. That is the same code base as everywhere else in Michigan — what differs between municipalities is which parts they permit locally, which is exactly the roofing point above.
If you are buying a rental
The Township runs a rental housing program implementing what it describes as a recently adopted Rental Housing Certification Ordinance, to register, inspect and certify rental properties across the township. Its stated purpose is to ensure rented units meet health, safety and habitability standards, to protect tenants and neighborhoods, and to promote accountability among landlords and property managers. The Township staffs it with a rental administrator and a housing inspector.
Because the ordinance is new, the practical position is the one to establish: a property that has been rented for years may not yet have been through certification, and that first inspection may fall to you rather than to the seller.
We did not open the ordinance or the forms, so we are not going to state a cycle length, a fee or a scope. The rental administration contact is the place to confirm all of it, and to find out where a specific property currently stands.
What is worth doing either way is knowing in advance what an inspector is likely to flag. On a new program nobody has a track record to rely on, which makes an independent report on the building more useful, not less.
Water and the buried line
The Township publishes drinking water reports, and on a township of this shape the first question about any property is what it is actually connected to — public water and sewer, or a private well and septic system. That is not something you can tell by looking at the house, and it changes the inspection, the maintenance and the budget.
A home inspection does not test water. We do not take samples and we do not analyze them, and septic evaluation is a separate discipline with its own credentials. On a property with private systems, those belong alongside a building inspection rather than instead of one.
The second question is the buried lateral running from the house toward the main or the tank, which nothing visual reaches. Even on a 2003 house that pipe has been in the ground more than twenty years, with landscaping planted at the same time now mature enough to reach a joint — and on newer subdivisions there is the additional risk that heavy equipment and backfill damaged buried pipe in ways that take years to show. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what laterals here 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 — and it is added to the same visit rather than booked separately. Alongside it, commercial building inspections follow the CCPIA standard, and radon testing or mold inspection and testing can be added to a residential or commercial visit.
Local information from Charter Township of Superior — Building Department · Charter Township of Superior — Rental Housing Program · Charter Township of Superior — drinking water report. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Washtenaw County
Zone 1 is the highest of the three EPA categories — the predicted average indoor level across the county is above the 4 pCi/L action level. What a zone cannot tell you is anything about one house: 38% of tests actually run in Washtenaw County still came back at or above the EPA’s 4 pCi/L action level. A zone is an average taken across a whole county, and no house is 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 · Washtenaw 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 Superior 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
Mr. Cahoon was very thorough inspecting the home I am interested in purchasing. He explained everything clearly as he went along. Went above and beyond crawling into the very small crawl space! Thank you!
Amy CaragayYpsilanti, 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
Not on that basis alone. Superior Township has only required a building permit for re-roofing since 1 February 2025. Any roof replaced before that date was outside the permit system, so an empty record is exactly what you should expect on the great majority of roofs here. It tells you nothing about the quality of the work — which is what an inspection is for.
On paper. The Township states that permit applications may be mailed in or brought in with payment, and that it cannot accept electronic applications or payment. In 2026 that is unusual, and it adds days to any plan that depends on getting work underway quickly after closing.
Requests must be received no later than 3:30pm the day before. Building and electrical inspections run Monday through Friday; plumbing and mechanical inspections are Monday, Wednesday and Friday only. When calling, the Township asks for the site address, the permit number, the type of inspection, and the name and phone number of the permit holder.
For most jobs, yes. The Township states that a person contracting with a homeowner for residential construction or remodeling worth $600 or more, including material and labor, must be licensed in Michigan as a Residential Builder or a Maintenance and Alteration Contractor. That threshold is low and catches a lot of ordinary work.
Scope. A Builders License allows a contractor to do all the work on a project except plumbing, mechanical and electrical. A Maintenance and Alteration contractor may perform only the specific trade or trades endorsed on their license — so a license held for one trade does not authorize another. It is worth checking which one a contractor holds against what you are asking them to do.
Yes, and it is new. The Township runs a rental housing program implementing what it describes as a recently adopted Rental Housing Certification Ordinance, to register, inspect and certify rental properties throughout the township. We did not open the ordinance or forms, so we are not going to state a cycle, fee or scope. Because the program is new, a property rented for years may not have been certified yet — and that first inspection may fall to you.
Fairly recent. Of about 5,802 housing units, 1,394 were built in the 2000s and 1,096 in the 1990s, with 925 from the 1970s and 647 from the 1980s — roughly 51% dates from 1990 or later. Around 67% is single-family detached. A house from the early 2000s is now at the age where the original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater all come due together.
If the property is on public sewer, yes. Even a 2003 house has a lateral that has been in the ground more than twenty years with mature landscaping alongside it, and newer subdivisions carry the additional risk that heavy equipment and backfill damaged buried pipe in ways that take years to appear. We will not guess a material from a build year. Putting a camera down the line documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same appointment.
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