Vienna 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 Vienna 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 Vienna Township and across Genesee 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 Vienna 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 reportVienna Township housing stock
Vienna Township has roughly 5,565 housing units and about 80% 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 1970s — 1,430 homes, around 26% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $168,700. There are around 217 manufactured and mobile homes in Vienna Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Vienna 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 Vienna Township was built
80% of homes here run on utility gas, and 20 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 207 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Vienna Township requires something before closing that most municipalities do not ask for at all: a sewer discharge inspection on any residence connected to the public sewer.
The Township’s published terms are specific. The inspection must be done before closing. It can normally be carried out within 24 to 48 hours of request, and should be requested once an offer has been accepted. There is a $50 fee, payable in advance. Any violation found must be corrected and re-inspected within ten days. And where the inspection genuinely cannot be completed before closing, the Township publishes a sewer discharge extension form for that situation.
What the Township does not publish is what the inspection looks for. We are not going to guess — if you are buying or selling here, the number to call is the Building Department, and the time to call it is when the offer is accepted rather than the week of closing.
What we can say is that this is a municipal requirement, separate from and additional to any inspection a buyer arranges. It does not replace a building inspection and a building inspection does not replace it. Budget the ten-day correction window into your timeline.
The housing is older than most of the county. Of about 5,565 units, 1,430 date from the 1970s and 953 from the 1950s, with 767 from the 1960s and 410 predating 1940. Only 126 units have been built since 2010. Around 80% is single-family detached.
Before you buy
Two townships, one county, opposite rules
Vienna Township’s permit requirements list is explicit: new residences, accessory buildings over 200 square feet, pools, decks, signs, remodels, additions, roofs, siding and structural changes all require a building permit, with a plot plan where applicable.
Roofs and siding are the notable ones. Twenty-odd miles south, in the same county, Fenton Township states the opposite — that building permits are not required there for replacing a roof, windows or siding. Same county, same state code, opposite answers. It is a good reminder that “do I need a permit for this?” is a question with a local answer, not a regional one.
For a buyer here, the practical upshot is that the permit file is worth searching. If the listing says the roof was replaced eight years ago, there should be a permit for it. If there is not, that is a question rather than an accusation — but it is a question worth asking, because unpermitted work is unpermitted work regardless of how it looks from the driveway.
The Township backs the rule up: work performed without a permit may be subject to double permit fees or a fine of up to $1,500.
What a buyer’s inspection adds is the physical read that no file contains. On a roof that means the covering and its condition, flashings, penetrations, edges and ventilation, and whether a covering was laid over an older one. On siding it means how the openings were flashed and whether water is getting behind the cladding. The paperwork tells you what was declared; the building tells you what was done.
Who inspects what
Two things about how this Building Department works are worth knowing, and neither is obvious from the outside.
The first is scope of territory. The Vienna Township Building Department issues and inspects all electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits not only for Vienna, but for Thetford Township, Forest Township and the City of Clio as well. If you are trying to reconstruct the trade history of a property in any of those four, this is the office that holds it.
The second is where the sewer responsibility line falls. The Township’s plumbing inspector inspects new sewer and water installations and alterations as they pertain to the connection between the curb box and the meter. A sewer permit is taken out first with Genesee County Water and Waste, and then with Vienna Township. So the county and the Township each own a piece of the same buried run, and knowing which piece is which saves a phone call at a bad moment.
One useful detail from the Township’s plumbing guidance: permits for a building sewer, private sewer or water service may be issued to someone other than a licensed contractor or master plumber. Most plumbing work here requires a licensed plumbing contractor with a master plumber recorded on the application — the sewer and water service is the exception. That is worth knowing when you are asking who actually did a repair, and it is another reason to look at the line rather than trust its paperwork.
Inspection days are narrow: building on Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment, electrical Monday through Thursday, mechanical and plumbing Tuesday through Thursday. New residential construction needs a soil erosion permit or waiver from Genesee County Water and Waste before the building permit application is even made.
Older stock
Almost nothing has been built here since 2010 — 126 units in fifteen years. The stock is what it has long been: 1,430 houses from the 1970s, 953 from the 1950s, 767 from the 1960s, and 410 that predate 1940.
That age profile shapes what an inspection spends its time on. A house from the 1950s has usually been rewired in part rather than in whole, which is why the panel and the branch circuits often tell different stories. Original supply plumbing from that era has reached the end of a normal service life whatever it is made of. And a 1970s house is now on its second or third roof, second furnace, and at least its second water heater — so the question is rarely whether something was replaced, but when, by whom, and how well.
On older houses we pay particular attention to the boundaries between eras: where new wiring meets old, where an addition meets the original structure, where a finished basement covers what used to be visible. Those junctions are where problems hide, and they are the reason a walkthrough and an inspection reach different conclusions about the same house.
A buyer’s inspection covers the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, and reports what is there in plain language with photographs. On a property of this age, radon testing is worth considering as an add-on to the same visit, and where there is a history of water in a basement, mold inspection and testing can be added too.
The buried line
Vienna Township is one of the few municipalities in this region that formally puts the sewer on the closing checklist. Whatever its discharge inspection covers, the fact that the Township asks for one before every sale on the public system says the line between a house and the main is treated here as something worth checking rather than assumed.
The buried lead is the one component no visual inspection reaches. On a 1970s house it has been in the ground fifty years; on a 1950s house, seventy, with the landscaping planted alongside it long since mature. Either is more than long enough for roots to find a joint, for ground movement to displace a section, or for a repair to have been made that nobody now remembers. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Vienna Township leads are generally made of.
The Township’s water and sewer page also publishes a sewer backup overflow claim form, which tells you the situation arises here as it does everywhere. Billing is on metered consumption where a property has a metered water supply, and a flat monthly charge where it does not — so the shape of the bill is a clue to what the property is connected to.
A sewer camera inspection records what is actually inside the line: 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. Alongside it, commercial building inspections follow the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property.
Local information from Vienna Township — Building Department and sewer discharge permit · Vienna Township — requirements for permits · Vienna Township — water and sewer. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Genesee 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 · Genesee County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Vienna 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
Outstanding precision and attention to detail! Helps being able to make a truly informed decision about a home! Also, they are very veteran-friendly! No complaints here!
Desmond SheppardFlint, MINoah Scott was very thorough and explaining things to us, especially in regard to a possible mold problem.
Claudette GranvilleFlint, 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
Vienna Township requires a sewer discharge inspection before closing on any residence connected to the public sewer. The published terms are a $50 fee payable in advance, turnaround normally within 24 to 48 hours of request, and any violation found corrected and re-inspected within ten days. The Township advises requesting it once an offer has been accepted, and publishes an extension form for cases where it genuinely cannot be completed before closing. The Township does not publish what the inspection covers — call the Building Department and ask rather than relying on anyone’s assumption, including ours.
No, and neither replaces the other. The sewer discharge inspection is a municipal requirement tied to closing. A buyer’s inspection is a full assessment of the building for you — roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior — reported to you rather than to the Township. Plan for both, and start the municipal one early because of the ten-day correction window.
Yes. The Township lists roofs and siding alongside new residences, accessory buildings over 200 square feet, pools, decks, signs, remodels, additions and structural changes as work requiring a building permit. Worth knowing that this is a local answer rather than a regional one — Fenton Township, in the same county, does not require a permit for a roof, window or siding replacement. Work performed without a permit here may be subject to double permit fees or a fine of up to $1,500.
The Vienna Township Building Department, and not only for Vienna. It issues and inspects all electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits for Thetford Township, Forest Township and the City of Clio as well. If you are researching the trade history of a property in any of those four municipalities, this is the office that holds the records.
It is split. The Township’s plumbing inspector covers new sewer and water installations and alterations as they pertain to the connection between the curb box and the meter, and a sewer permit is taken out first with Genesee County Water and Waste and then with Vienna Township. Knowing which office covers which section is worth establishing before you need one.
Older than most of the county, and very little is new. Of about 5,565 housing units, 1,430 date from the 1970s, 953 from the 1950s and 767 from the 1960s, with 410 predating 1940 and only 126 built since 2010. Around 80% is single-family detached. In practice that means partial rewiring, original-era supply plumbing at the end of its service life, and second or third-generation roofs and mechanicals.
The Township’s plumbing guidance states that permits for a building sewer, private sewer or water service only may be issued to someone other than a licensed contractor or master plumber. Most other plumbing work requires a licensed plumbing contractor with a master plumber recorded on the application. It is a useful thing to know when you are asking who actually carried out a repair on a buried line.
Yes — and the Township’s own closing requirement suggests it takes the sewer seriously. The buried lead is the one component no visual inspection reaches, and on a 1950s or 1970s house it has been in the ground fifty to seventy years. 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. Get in touch to talk through a particular property.
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