West Bloomfield, MI Rental Inspections: Tenant Complaint Process (2026)

Article XVII layers complaint-driven inspections on top of the regular schedule. Sec. 8-418(a) sets the routine cycle at every three years "unless code enforcement receives a report of a violation on the property," and Sec. 8-418(c) provides that "residential rental units may be inspected any time there is a complaint or other indication of a violation of this article." Sec. 8-419(b), titled special inspections, describes the process: "If the code enforcement department receives a complaint or report of a violation occurring on the property, a code official shall be dispatched to the property," and if an interior inspection is required, one is requested; a landlord who denies the code official access "shall be a civil infraction." A complaint-driven interior inspection follows the same interior-access trigger used for vacant and dangerous-building checks under Sec.

8-420(d), covering conditions such as unsafe equipment, moisture intrusion, or a suspected zoning violation. Because a complaint inspection can lead the code official to find other violations, Sec. 8-416 allows the certificate of compliance to be revoked if the inspection reveals violations of the article, the zoning ordinance, or any other township ordinance, independent of the unit's three-year renewal date, and Sec. 8-417 lets the code official issue only a temporary certificate, listing the violations and correction deadline, when a complaint inspection finds a unit that can still be occupied safely.