Rental Inspections in Michigan (2026)

Ann Arbor inspects rental housing on an area basis, sweeping every regulated building in a neighborhood at once, rather…

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, every rental permit application, initial or renewal, triggers an inspection of…

Clinton Township's Rental Housing Registration, Licensing and Inspection Ordinance puts every licensed rental unit on a…

Dearborn bars occupying any building for any purpose, including rental turnover, until the Department of Economic…

The City of Dearborn Heights requires a rental dwelling certificate of compliance, valid three years, before any rental…

Detroit requires the Building Official to inspect every registered rental property on a set renewal schedule and issue…

Farmington Hills inspects every registered single-family rental at least once every three years under City Code §…

The City of Flint requires rental housing to comply with its Comprehensive Rental Inspection Code, adopted by reference…

Livonia requires every rental dwelling, from single-family houses to hotels, to hold an unrevoked license posted on the…

The City of Pontiac runs a periodic inspection program for one- and two-family rentals under City Code Section 22-803…

The City of Royal Oak runs every residential rental through a registration and inspection program under its Property…

Owners of rental dwellings in the Charter Township of Royal Oak, Michigan must register each rental with the Township…

In the City of Southfield, no one- or two-family or townhouse rental dwelling may be occupied without a certificate of…

Sterling Heights created a non-complaint-based inspection program for non-homestead rentals after finding they…

In the City of Taylor, Michigan, every rental dwelling must be registered with the city and hold a valid certificate of…

Troy inspects every registered multiple family dwelling and rooming house on a cycle capped at two years, stretched to…

Westland schedules rental dwelling inspections on a recurring citywide cycle rather than waiting for complaints, giving…

Wyoming, Michigan inspects every registered rental property before a registration is issued, renewed, or restored, and…

Grand Rapids inspects a rental's structure, units, accessory buildings, and yards before issuing the Certificate of…

The City of Kalamazoo runs rental housing inspections as an ongoing systematic program rather than a one-time check…

Every rental property in Lansing, other than an owner-occupied single-family home, must be registered with the Office…

The Village of Shelby requires every rental dwelling to pass a Building Inspector inspection under Chapter 358 before a…

Warren's Rental Inspections Division runs a biennial compliance inspection tied to every rental license renewal, with…

West Bloomfield Township runs a scheduled rental inspection program under Sec. 8-418: registered residential rental…

Any complaint about a Housing Code violation in Ann Arbor gets a written record and must trigger a Building Official…

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, a complaint received by the City that a dwelling violates the Housing Code is…

Clinton Township's rental chapter lets a lessee's complaint push a unit ahead of the normal two-year inspection cycle…

Beyond its three-year cycle, Dearborn inspects non-owner-occupied rental property whenever residents or neighborhood…

In the City of Dearborn Heights, the Building and Engineering Department inspects dwellings for housing-code compliance…

A complaint to Detroit's Buildings, Safety Engineering, and Environmental Department triggers a Property Maintenance…

In the City of Kalamazoo, a tenant, neighbor or other member of the public can trigger a Housing Code inspection by…

When a Lansing tenant files a complaint with the Office of Code Compliance, City Codified Ordinances § 1460.45(b)(2)…

In the City of Pontiac, a tenant's complaint to the Department of Building Safety forces the landlord's hand. City Code…

A tenant complaint about conditions the owner has not addressed lets the Southfield Building and Safety Engineering…

In the City of Taylor, Michigan, a tenant's complaint of a violation gives the Building Department grounds to inspect…

A Troy landlord must let inspectors into a rented unit once a tenant complains to the City, under Chapter 82-A…

Warren tenants can trigger a rental inspection outside the normal biennial cycle by filing a written complaint with the…

A West Bloomfield Township tenant can trigger an inspection outside the regular three-year cycle by reporting a…

A tenant complaint to Westland's building department can trigger a rental unit inspection, with the city able to…

A tenant complaint lets Wyoming, Michigan's code official inspect a rental unit at any time, separate from the city's…