Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, August 2025

The market

San Antonio was founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718 and is now the seventh most populous city in the country. It sits on the Balcones Escarpment, where the limestone Hill Country meets flatter coastal prairie. Parts of the north side, around and beyond Loop 1604, lie over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, where construction falls under the state's Edwards Aquifer rules, while the south side spreads across open land.

How RAZE ran it

A lender with loans across the metro reviews draws from rocky hillside lots and flat prairie subdivisions in the same month, and the question on each one is the same: is the work billed on this line item in place? RAZE links every photo to its draw sheet line item, with GPS coordinates and a date and time stamp, so a reviewer can answer it line by line in one format.

The market

Fairhope is on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay in Baldwin County, Alabama's largest county by area, which grew faster than any other county in the state from 2010 to 2020. Followers of the economist Henry George founded the town in 1894 as a single-tax colony, and the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation still leases land in and around town on 99-year renewable leases, with the lessee owning the buildings.

How RAZE ran it

Alabama has more homes designated to the FORTIFIED construction standard than any other state, most of them in Baldwin and Mobile Counties. Much of what makes a roof hold, the sealed deck and the nailing, is covered once the roofing goes on, so a draw visit at that stage leaves a dated record. Every photo is geo-stamped and time-stamped and linked to its line item on the draw sheet.

The market

Mooresville is a southern Iredell County town on Lake Norman, which Duke Power created behind Cowans Ford Dam on the Catawba River in the early 1960s and which has about 520 miles of shoreline. NASCAR and IndyCar teams earned the town the name Race City USA, Lowe's has its corporate headquarters here, and the population grew by more than half between the 2010 and 2020 censuses.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed, on a lake with about 520 miles of shoreline. Every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App carries GPS latitude and longitude with date and time stamps, linked to its draw sheet line item, so the record shows which Lake Norman lot and which work a draw is paying for, whatever the order called the address.

The market

Brunswick was laid out in 1771 on the Oglethorpe Plan, a grid of streets broken by green squares, and it is one of only two Georgia cities, with Savannah, that kept it. The Glynn County seat sits beside the Marshes of Glynn that Sidney Lanier wrote about, on the mainland side of the Golden Isles, and its Colonel's Island terminal made the Port of Brunswick the country's top port for vehicles in 2024.

How RAZE ran it

Brunswick sits on Interstate 95 between Savannah and Jacksonville, and a lender with inspectors in either city may have no one in Glynn County. That lender doesn't need one: the Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the photos, time stamps and report come back through the same workflow. A lender with its own inspector on the coast can send the order by Direct Request instead.

The market

Sevierville, founded in 1795, is the Sevier County seat, and a bronze statue of Dolly Parton, a Sevier County native, has sat on the courthouse lawn since 1987. The southern part of the county lies in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited national park in the country.

How RAZE ran it

Lots here can sit up steep, winding mountain roads, and orders have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed. Every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App is linked to its draw sheet line item and carries GPS coordinates with date and time stamps, so the record shows which mountain lot and which work a draw is paying for, whatever the order called the address.