Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, December 2025

The market

Raleigh was planned as North Carolina's capital from the start: state commissioners bought 1,000 acres from Joel Lane, and the city was chartered in 1792. The City of Oaks counted 467,665 residents at the 2020 census, the count in which Wake County passed Mecklenburg as the state's most populous county after growing by a quarter in ten years.

How RAZE ran it

Orders in Raleigh have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed. In the RAZE Mobile App, GPS coordinates and date and time stamps on every photo tie the work to the lot, and each photo is linked to its draw sheet line item, so a lender with loans across Wake County sees which lot and which work a draw is paying for, whatever the order called the address.

The market

Camdenton is a county seat the lake created. Bagnell Dam, built from 1929 to 1931, made the Lake of the Ozarks, and the rising water covered Linn Creek, the old seat of Camden County. In November 1930 the county chose a new seat, Camdenton, before most of the town was built. The lake winds 94 miles end to end with more than 1,150 miles of shoreline, and Ha Ha Tonka State Park, with the ruins of an early 20th-century stone mansion, lies about five miles south of town.

How RAZE ran it

On a lake shaped like this, two sites facing each other across a cove can be a long drive apart by road. A lender with no inspector of its own in central Missouri orders through the Marketplace, which sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the report comes back in the same format as a draw in Raleigh.

The market

Marco Island is the largest barrier island in Florida's Ten Thousand Islands, about 20 miles south of Naples, with six miles of beach and more than 100 miles of waterways in 24 square miles. Much of it was developed from the 1960s by the Mackle brothers' Deltona Corporation, whose master plan dredged canals to put about three-quarters of the homesites on the water. Hurricane Irma made landfall on the island as a Category 3 storm on September 10, 2017.

How RAZE ran it

A canal-front budget can carry lines a street-side house doesn't, such as a seawall, a dock or a boat lift, and each one is a line the lender pays against. Every photo in the RAZE Mobile App is linked to its draw sheet line item, with GPS coordinates and a time stamp, so the lender reviewing the seawall line sees the seawall, and the dock line shows the dock.

The market

Sunset is an unincorporated community in northern Pickens County, on South Carolina Highway 11 about eight miles northwest of Pickens. That stretch of Highway 11 is the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway, a National Scenic Byway along the foot of the Blue Ridge Escarpment, with Lake Keowee and Lake Jocassee close by. Sassafras Mountain, the highest point in South Carolina at 3,553 feet, is in the same county.

How RAZE ran it

Foothill sites up here can be a long way from a signal, so the RAZE Mobile App keeps capturing offline. The inspector completes the whole capture where the house stands, everything syncs in full once the phone reconnects, and the app flags any set of data captured offline that still needs to sync. The report the lender receives is the same one a site with full signal would produce.

The market

Loudon is the seat of Loudon County, on the Tennessee River southwest of Knoxville. The county is also home to Tellico Dam, completed in 1979 as the last dam the Tennessee Valley Authority built, and to Tellico Village, a planned retirement community on the western shore of Tellico Lake. Census estimates had the county growing about 4% from 2022 to 2023, with Tellico Village growing faster still.

How RAZE ran it

New homes go up between the river, the lake and the hills southwest of Knoxville. A lender with its own inspector around Knoxville can route the order by Direct Request, a lender without one can order through the Marketplace, and either way the order runs the same four steps: order, dispatch, capture, deliver. On site every photo is geo-stamped and time-stamped against the draw sheet, and the report comes back in one format.