Lansing, Ingham County
Rental inspection corrections in Lansing
Nine completed Lansing jobs came from an inspector’s list rather than a tenant’s, and this is the only town on this site where that is true.
Rental inspection corrections in Lansing, specifically
Lansing runs a rental inspection regime under its Housing & Premises Code, and no other town on this site generates work the same way. It changes the job in three concrete ways. The list is written by somebody who is coming back to check it, so the reporting has to line up with the inspector’s own item numbers rather than ours. It arrives with a re-inspection date that does not move. And it mixes items — a smoke detector, a GFCI, a handrail, a receptacle — where some are ordinary repair scope and some are a licensed electrician’s, which get separated on the quote instead of absorbed. Four of the nine completed jobs here are Section 8 items, which is the same discipline under a different inspector. The sentence that governs all of it is already on this company’s quotes: a citation is not made to disappear cosmetically while a hazard stays behind it.
On the Lansing record
- a city correction letter worked as a work order
- a city inspection walk-through for corrections verification
- three Section 8 jobs, including a kitchen receptacle and cabinet item and a bathroom GFCI repair
- an urgent smoke detector installation
Everything else this company does in Lansing is on the Lansing page, and the full explanation of this work — what it involves, what decides the price and where it stops — is on General Repairs.
Where this stops
When it is not a handyman job
This is at the top of the page rather than the bottom because getting it wrong costs you a wasted visit. Insured, and no contractor licence is claimed or implied — the Michigan residential builder licence is not held.
- Anything on the list needing a licensed electrician or plumber is referred out and named as such on the quote — new circuits, panels, service upgrades, water-heater replacement.
- No structural alteration; the Michigan residential builder licence is not held.
- A hazard is reported rather than hidden. If tracing reveals wiring that is unsafe, the work stops and you are shown it.
What it costs
There is no price list for this, and here is what actually decides the number.
The same three words describe a twenty-minute job and a two-day one. Rather than publish a figure that is wrong for one of them, here is what moves it — so you can work out roughly which end of it you are at before anybody comes out.
How many items and how many of them are the same item repeated across a building.
Whether any line needs a licensed trade, which is priced and arranged separately rather than absorbed.
What the re-inspection date is, which changes sequencing rather than the rate.
Whether the property is occupied, and how many units have to be accessed.
How to get a real number
Somebody comes out, looks at it properly, and you get a fixed price in writing with the work set out line by line and the exclusions written down as plainly as the inclusions. Coming out to do that is not charged for, and neither is working out what is wrong. If something is found once a wall or a floor is open, it is priced as a written change order and you decide before the work carries on rather than after it is billed. Materials are supplied at cost with the receipt attached, first-time customers get 10% off labour, and labour carries a one-year craftsmanship warranty.
If this is happening right now
What to do in the next five minutes, and what happens when you ring.
Before anybody arrives
- Send the correction letter itself rather than a summary of it. The item numbers are what the work gets reported against.
- Say what the re-inspection date is in the first message. It is the only date on this kind of job that matters.
- Flag which units are occupied and who holds access.
Call the business line
(517) 505-7135Answered Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 18:00. There is no out-of-hours line and this page is not going to invent one — outside those hours, leave a message with the address and what is happening, and it is picked up in the morning.
On the call you get asked what is happening, what else in the building is affected, and whether it is still getting worse. That is how it gets decided whether this is our job at all — and if it is not, you get told that on the phone rather than after somebody has driven out.
- No trip charge
- No call-out fee or minimum
- No diagnostic fee
- No charge for a return visit
True across all 84 written quotes this company has issued. Most contractors in this market charge to turn up.
Or send the detailsWhen the right answer is not this company
- You can smell gas
- Leave the building and call the utility from outside. Not us, and not later.
- Water you cannot stop
- Your main shut-off first, then a licensed plumber. Every minute of this one costs money.
- Sewage backing up, or several fixtures at once
- A licensed plumber with a camera. That is the shared line, not a fixture, and a cable down one sink will not touch it.
- Sparking, scorching or a burning smell at an outlet or a panel
- Breaker off, and a licensed electrician. Electrical work here is repair and like-for-like replacement, and this is neither.
- No heat, or heating and cooling equipment that has failed
- A licensed mechanical contractor. That trade is not offered here at all, and knowing that in one phone call is worth more than a visit.
Two questions worth answering before you call
Have you actually worked an inspection correction list in Lansing?
Yes, and here is the Lansing record that bears on it directly: a city correction letter worked as a work order; a city inspection walk-through for corrections verification; three Section 8 jobs, including a kitchen receptacle and cabinet item and a bathroom GFCI repair; an urgent smoke detector installation. Alongside that, 185 jobs have been completed and invoiced in Lansing across every trade.
What does clearing an inspection correction list cost in Lansing?
There is no rate card and there is no Lansing surcharge. What sets the price is the job rather than the postcode — how many items and how many of them are the same item repeated across a building. Somebody comes out and looks, and you get a fixed price in writing with the exclusions listed as plainly as the inclusions. There is no trip charge to reach Lansing, no call-out minimum and no diagnostic fee, so finding out what it costs costs nothing.
Rental inspection corrections in Lansing?
Send the address and what is happening and somebody will come and look. No trip charge to reach Lansing, no call-out minimum, and a fixed price in writing before anything starts.