Unadilla 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 Unadilla 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 Unadilla Township and across Livingston 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 Unadilla 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 reportUnadilla Township housing stock
Unadilla Township has roughly 1,743 housing units and about 90% of them are single-family detached. Age is the most useful single fact about a house before anyone has seen it. It narrows down what is worth checking first, and it is why two places of much the same size can need quite different inspections.
If the town has a defining decade it is the years before 1940, which accounts for 372 homes, around 21% of the housing stock. At 90% 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 $221,300. 89% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Unadilla Township home inspector checks these things early in a home of this age and then records what is genuinely there, which is often not what the era would suggest.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Unadilla Township was built
42% of homes here run on utility gas, and 226 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 408 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Unadilla Township sits in the southwest corner of Livingston County and encompasses both the Gregory State Game Area and the Pinckney State Recreation Area. A substantial part of the township is state land, and a great many properties here either adjoin it or sit close to it.
That is the defining fact about buying here, and it cuts in several directions at once. It is why the landscape is what it is. It also means municipal services are never going to arrive, wildlife pressure on buildings is a genuine maintenance issue rather than a novelty, and open land next door changes how you think about the exterior of a house.
The township is also part-way through rewriting its zoning ordinance — a draft was published for public review in July. If any part of why you are buying depends on what you may do with the land, check where that rewrite has got to before you commit, because the rules you are relying on may be the ones being replaced.
One practical thing that works in a buyer’s favor here: the township office offers Saturday appointments. Its regular hours are narrow — Tuesday through the day and Thursday morning — but a Saturday slot by arrangement is genuinely useful if you work weekdays and need to look at records.
The housing is unusual too. About 671 of the roughly 1,743 units predate 1950, then very little was built through the 1950s and 1960s, and 344 units went up in the 2000s. Two quite different building eras with a long gap between them.
Before you buy
State land
The county’s community profile for the township describes it as known for its scenic landscape, encompassing both a state game area and a state recreation area. The township was first settled in 1833.
For a buyer, a property adjoining state land raises a set of questions worth asking that simply do not arise on a subdivision street. Where exactly the boundary runs, and whether anything on the property encroaches. Whether access to the property crosses anybody else’s land. What seasonal activity happens on the far side of the line, and when.
Those are legal and practical questions rather than inspection ones, and they belong with your conveyancer and the township. But the physical consequences do show up in what we report.
On a property bordering open or wooded land we pay particular attention to the exterior envelope. Wildlife entry points are the practical issue: gaps at soffits, eaves and roof edges, unscreened vents, gaps around service penetrations, chimney caps and crawl space openings. Squirrels, bats, raccoons and rodents all cause real damage, and the openings that let them in are small, findable and fixable.
We also look at what mature trees and adjacent vegetation are doing to the building: limbs over the roof, contact with the covering or gutters, debris accumulating in valleys, shade keeping a slope permanently damp, and roots at the foundation and the drive.
And on a rural property surrounded by open land, we report the condition of the driveway and the approach, culverts and drainage crossings where visible, and how ground clearance and vegetation sit relative to the building.
Zoning in transition
The township published a draft zoning ordinance for public review in July, alongside a notice of plan availability. We have not read the draft and we are not going to describe a single provision in it — but its existence matters.
A zoning rewrite is the one piece of local due diligence that has a shelf life. If you are buying with a plan — an outbuilding, a home business, a second dwelling, a land division, a short-term let — the answer you get today may be based on an ordinance that is about to change.
So ask two questions rather than one: what does the current ordinance allow, and what does the draft propose for this parcel? The township’s zoning administrator keeps weekday morning hours and is the right person to ask.
That timing also argues for starting early in a contingency period. On an office open roughly ten hours a week, a question raised late is a question that may not get answered before you have to decide.
A buyer’s inspection does not assess zoning compliance and is not a permit search. What it does is establish what is actually on the property and what condition it is in, so the questions you take to the township are specific ones rather than general.
The housing
The township’s housing profile is one of the more unusual we work with. About 372 units predate 1940 and a further 299 date from the 1940s — together 38% of the township. Then almost nothing: 64 units in the 1950s and 87 in the 1960s. Then 246 in the 1970s and, after another quiet spell, 344 in the 2000s.
On the pre-1950 stock, expect the accumulated history of a long-lived building: electrical rebuilt in stages by different hands across seventy-five years or more, plumbing renewed in part rather than in whole with material transitions at the joins, four or five generations of roof covering, and heating equipment several replacements from the original, sometimes vented through arrangements that have not kept pace.
Foundations of that era 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.
Older rural properties in this part of the county frequently began as seasonal buildings and were converted to year-round use, which shows up in specific places: insulation levels, crawl space conditions and ventilation, how additions were tied into the original structure, foundation type and depth, and whether plumbing runs are protected from freezing. Those are worth looking at properly on any older house here.
The 344 units from the 2000s are a different exercise: original roof coverings now reaching the end of their service life, 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.
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.
Services
Unadilla runs its own police department and its own fire department, which for a rural township of fewer than eighteen hundred housing units is unusual — most townships this size in our area are covered by a county sheriff or the state police.
The township board meets on the second Thursday of the month in the evening, and the township publishes its meeting schedule, minutes and planning commission papers on its information page. It also runs a senior center, parks and recreation, cemeteries and a prescription drug drop-off.
One tax note worth checking: the published residential millage is given as a range rather than a single figure, both for homestead and non-homestead rates. That means the rate varies across the township, so confirm what actually applies to the parcel you are buying rather than working from a mid-point.
The township also maintains a utility locating page, which is a sensible prompt on rural property. If you are planning landscaping, fencing, a drive or drainage work, having services located before you dig is straightforward and free, and on properties where services run long distances from the road it matters more than in town.
Water and waste
The township publishes nothing about water supply or waste water — no water department, no sewer information, no guidance on wells or septic systems.
On a rural township substantially made up of state land, it would be easy to assume every property is 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.
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 rural property it needs arranging early because it takes its own time. A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation, and is worth repeating after any well repair.
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 wooded rural lot that has been landscaped over decades, that fall is often no longer what anyone intended, and correcting it is usually the cheapest useful thing an owner can do.
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 671 houses predating 1950, that pipe may have been in the ground for seventy-five years or more, through more than one era of drain material. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Unadilla 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.
On a wooded property backing onto state land, roots are the finding we see most. Mature trees on the far side of a boundary do not respect it, and a lateral running toward open ground is running toward exactly what causes the problem.
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 Unadilla Township.
Local information from Livingston County — Unadilla Township community profile: state land, hours and millage · Unadilla Township — township information, board and departments · Unadilla Township — draft zoning ordinance published for public review · Unadilla Township — forms. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Livingston County
Zone 2 is the middle EPA category — the predicted average indoor level across the county sits between 2 and 4 pCi/L.
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 · Livingston County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Unadilla 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!!
Chirag R MiyaniMichiganWhat happens
Questions
The township encompasses both a state game area and a state recreation area, so a great many properties adjoin or sit near state land. Establish where the boundary runs, whether anything encroaches, how access works, and what seasonal activity happens on the other side of the line.
Yes, particularly on the exterior. Wildlife entry points become the practical issue — gaps at soffits, eaves and roof edges, unscreened vents, gaps around service penetrations, chimney caps and crawl space openings. We also report what adjacent trees are doing to the roof, gutters and foundation.
A draft ordinance was published for public review in July. We have not read it and will not describe any provision, but if your plans depend on what you may do with the land, ask the township both what the current ordinance allows and what the draft proposes for that parcel.
Narrow weekday hours — Tuesday through the day and Thursday morning — but it also offers Saturday appointments by arrangement, which is genuinely useful if you work weekdays. Start any records inquiry early in a contingency period.
Because the rate varies across the township. Both the homestead and non-homestead figures are published as ranges rather than single numbers, so confirm what actually applies to the parcel you are buying rather than working from a mid-point.
The township runs its own police department and its own fire department, which is unusual for a rural township of this size — most in our area are covered by a county sheriff or the state police.
Many older rural properties in this area began as seasonal buildings and were converted to year-round use. That shows up in insulation levels, crawl space conditions and ventilation, how additions were tied into the original structure, foundation type and depth, and whether plumbing runs are protected from freezing.
Yes, and roots are the reason. On a wooded property backing onto state land, mature trees on the far side of a boundary do not respect it, and a lateral running toward open ground is running toward exactly what causes the problem. A camera inspection is added to the same visit.
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