Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, February 2025

The market

Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County, with 874,579 people at the 2020 census. Its metro does not stop at the state line: it reaches into South Carolina, where York and Lancaster Counties rank among the region's fastest-growing.

How RAZE ran it

A lender with a Charlotte book can have draws due in two states and several counties in the same week, each with its own permit office. RAZE keeps the inspection the same on both sides of the line: every order is placed in the Ordering Engine, dispatched, captured in the RAZE Mobile App against the draw sheet and delivered in one report format, so a reviewer reads a draw in Mecklenburg County and one in York County the same way.

The market

St. George Island is a 22-mile barrier island between Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf, on the stretch of the Florida Panhandle called the Forgotten Coast because large-scale resort development never arrived. A four-mile bridge from Eastpoint, completed in 2004, connects it to the mainland; before the first bridges opened in 1965, the island was reached by ferry. Its eastern end is a state park.

How RAZE ran it

From most lenders' desks, a site at the far end of a four-mile bridge on the Forgotten Coast is a long way from any inspector they already use. The Marketplace is built for that: the lender orders through RAZE as usual, RAZE sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the island draw comes back with the same geo-stamped, time-stamped photos as a site in town.

The market

West Palm Beach was incorporated in 1894, two years before Miami, which makes it the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida. Henry Flagler founded it to house workers for his hotels on Palm Beach, and today it is the seat of Palm Beach County and the northern end of the Miami metro. The city keeps 18 locally designated historic districts, from the Mediterranean Revival homes of El Cid to the bungalows of Flamingo Park.

How RAZE ran it

In a historic district, exterior renovations, additions and demolition need a Certificate of Appropriateness from the city's Historic Preservation Board, and the budget behind the work runs 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 see the addition, the roof and the windows each against the line that pays for it.

The market

Hilton Head Island is the second-largest barrier island on the East Coast, after Long Island, and it was incorporated as a town in 1983. U.S. 278 reaches it over bridges across Mackay and Skull Creeks. Large parts of the island are planned communities known as plantations, and some of them, such as Sea Pines, require a pass at the gate.

How RAZE ran it

Behind a gate, a lender can't drive past a build to see how it is coming along, so the photo record has to do it. Every photo the inspector captures in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped and time-stamped and linked to its draw sheet line item, showing where the inspector stood inside the community and when, in the same report format as a site on an open street.

The market

Kerrville is the seat of Kerr County, a city of about 24,000 people set in the Texas Hill Country roughly 65 miles northwest of San Antonio. The Guadalupe River runs directly through town, lined with city parks, and outside town many parts of the county have weak or no cell service.

How RAZE ran it

Where the hills thin out the signal, the RAZE Mobile App's offline mode keeps the capture going. It is stored on the device, the app lists which sets of data still have to sync, and the full record goes up once the phone reconnects. On a rural road, where an address may not land cleanly on a map, every photo also carries GPS coordinates, so the lender sees exactly where the work was documented.