Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, April 2025

The market

Nashville and Davidson County have run as one metropolitan government since 1963, and the Nashville metro ranked eighth in the country for single-family building permits over the first ten months of 2024. Inside the county, much of the new building is infill. Tennessee's horizontal property regime law and long-standing duplex zoning let builders replace one older house with two narrow ones on the same lot, and close to 9,000 of these "tall and skinny" homes went up in Nashville from 2010 through 2023.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed, and on a two-on-one lot the houses stand a few feet apart. The location has to come from the evidence. Every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App carries GPS latitude and longitude with date and time stamps and is linked to the draw sheet line item it supports, which keeps one house's framing photos from being read as its neighbor's.

The market

West Park became Broward County's 31st city in 2005, formed from unincorporated neighborhoods including Carver Ranches, Lake Forest and Utopia. It covers about two square miles in the Miami metro, with Hollywood to the north and the Miami-Dade County line on its south side, and it counted about 15,000 residents in the 2020 census. Broward and Miami-Dade are the two counties under the Florida Building Code's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone provisions, the stricter structural and roofing rules South Florida kept after Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

How RAZE ran it

In the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone, the stages a lender funds carry extra weight: impact-rated windows and doors, the roof and how it is tied down. The RAZE Mobile App stamps every photo with GPS coordinates and the date and time and links it to the draw sheet line item it supports, so the report shows where and when each of those stages was documented.

The market

Chapel Hill is the home of the University of North Carolina, which began enrolling students in 1795, and the university is one corner of the Research Triangle with Raleigh and Durham. Most of the town is in Orange County, with a part in Durham County. The Chapel Hill name also reaches past the town limits: Briar Chapel, a planned community about eight miles south in Chatham County, uses Chapel Hill mailing addresses.

How RAZE ran it

A Chapel Hill address alone doesn't settle which county a lot is in, and orders here have also come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed. The record settles it instead: every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App carries GPS coordinates and date and time stamps and is linked to its draw sheet line item, so the lender sees which lot and which work the draw is paying for, whatever the order called the address.

The market

Myrtle Beach is the center of the Grand Strand, the arc of beach that runs more than 60 miles along the South Carolina coast. Its metro is one of the fastest-growing in the country: the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach area grew 3.7 percent from 2022 to 2023, the only metro outside Florida in the national top five. The former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, closed in 1993, has been redeveloped as The Market Common, with new neighborhoods around it.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed, in a metro adding people quickly. Each one runs on the same standardized workflow: placed in the Ordering Engine, dispatched, captured in the RAZE Mobile App and delivered in one report format. On site, every photo is geo-stamped and time-stamped, which tells the lender which lot was inspected, street number or not.

The market

Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels founded New Braunfels in 1845 where the Comal River meets the Guadalupe, and the town became the seat of Comal County, with part of the city in Guadalupe County. It sits about 32 miles from downtown San Antonio and 48 from Austin, and it is growing fast: Census estimates put it at about 91,600 residents in July 2020 and nearly 111,000 three years later.

How RAZE ran it

A lender with inspectors in San Antonio or Austin, or none in Texas at all, may have no one of its own between the two metros. It doesn't need anyone: the Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, who captures the draw against the draw sheet in the RAZE Mobile App. A lender that already works with someone local can route the order by Direct Request, through the same workflow and into the same report.