Michigan Home Inspection Checklist
The five things to check in any report, plus nine checks that only exist because the house is in Michigan.
This is the Michigan add-on to our national inspection checklist, nine extra checks for basements, radon, wells and septic, and disclosure paperwork that don't exist anywhere else. See the general Home Inspection Report Checklist
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- The same five report checks that catch gaps between the walkthrough and the write-up
- Nine Michigan-only checks covering radon, septic and well systems, basements, and disclosure law
- Built around the fact that Michigan doesn't license home inspectors at all, not a generic list with the state name swapped in
What's inside
5 universal checks + 9 Michigan-only checks. 14 total in the free PDF.
Section A: Universal checks
- Confirm every space you'd expect is actually in the report.Attic, crawl space, basement, electrical panel. If the listing or the inspector mentioned it out loud, it should show up in writing somewhere.
- Check whether the report's length matches how long the inspection took.A three-hour walkthrough that turns into two pages is a mismatch worth a phone call.
- Compare what the inspector said out loud to what ended up in writing.If you took notes during the walkthrough, pull them out and read both side by side.
Section A: Universal checks
Section B: Michigan-only checks
“This gets you far enough to know when to ask a harder question, in Michigan specifically. It won't tell you whether a damp basement wall means a clogged gutter or a failing foundation, how to read a radon mitigation contractor's proposal, or what a finding is actually worth at the negotiating table. That's the difference between noticing a report was softened and knowing what it was softened from. That's Don't Use Their Inspector.”
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