Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, April 2026

The market

Prescott Valley is a planned town. It started in the 1960s as home lots sold out of Lonesome Valley ranch land, incorporated in 1978 with about 1,500 residents and counted more than 46,000 at the 2020 census. At about 5,100 feet in Yavapai County, it is one of the Quad Cities with Prescott, Chino Valley and Dewey-Humboldt, and its newer subdivisions keep spreading across the valley floor.

How RAZE ran it

From a lender's desk in Phoenix, Prescott Valley is about 85 miles up the road, and from out of state it is farther still. A lender without an inspector of its own in the highlands orders through RAZE as usual: the Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the photos, coordinates, time stamps and report come back through the same workflow as an order in the Phoenix metro.

The market

Cattlemen founded Abilene in 1881 as a stock-shipping point on the Texas and Pacific Railway and named it after Abilene, Kansas, at the end of the Chisholm Trail. Today it is the central city of the Big Country, about 150 miles west of Fort Worth, with Dyess Air Force Base on its southwest side and three universities: Abilene Christian, Hardin-Simmons and McMurry.

How RAZE ran it

Draws here run from new homes on city lots to builds on ranch and acreage land along rural roads, some of them a long drive out. Where the signal thins out past town, the RAZE Mobile App keeps capturing offline: the app flags which sets of data still need to sync, and everything syncs in full once the phone reconnects.

The market

Swiss and Palatine German settlers founded New Bern in 1710 where the Neuse and Trent rivers meet. It is the second-oldest town in North Carolina, after Bath, and served as the colonial capital, with Tryon Palace as its first capitol. The rivers set the building conditions: in September 2018, Hurricane Florence pushed a storm surge of up to 10 feet into the city and damaged thousands of homes.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed, so the record itself has to say where the inspector stood. Every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App carries GPS latitude and longitude and a date and time stamp, linked to its draw sheet line item. On a riverside lot, the same photo set shows the foundation and elevation work the draw is paying for.

The market

Ponte Vedra Beach is a large unincorporated community about 18 miles southeast of downtown Jacksonville, best known as the home of the PGA Tour and The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass. Construction here is custom homes, in gated golf communities and along the ocean, where work seaward of Florida's Coastal Construction Control Line needs a permit from the state on top of the local one.

How RAZE ran it

A custom home with a long budget needs a draw record that holds up line by line. RAZE links every photo to its draw sheet line item, with GPS coordinates and a date and time stamp, so a reviewer can trace each percent complete to the evidence behind it. St. Augustine, 26 miles down the same coast, was in the August report: same county, same workflow, very different houses.

The market

Forest is an unincorporated community in eastern Bedford County, part of the Lynchburg metro and the home of Poplar Forest, the octagonal retreat Thomas Jefferson designed and began building in 1806. It has grown quickly over the past two decades, especially since U.S. Route 221, Forest Road, was widened to four lanes in 2009.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here often arrive as a lot number, before the street has an address a map can find. RAZE doesn't need one to prove the visit: on site, every photo the inspector captures in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped with GPS coordinates and time-stamped with the date and time, linked to its draw sheet line item, so the loan file shows where the work was seen, not only what the order said.