Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, January 2026

The market

Orlando is the seat of Orange County, and its metro ranked sixth in the country for single-family permits in the first half of 2025, with permits up from a year earlier. Its growth includes master-planned communities: Horizon West, a plan of villages on former citrus groves in southwest Orange County, was adopted by the county in 1995, and Lake Nona spreads across 17 square miles of southeast Orlando.

How RAZE ran it

Master-planned building moves in phases, and a builder can carry a whole row of homes through the same stage at once, each one looking much like the next. RAZE links every photo to its draw sheet line item and stamps it with GPS coordinates, date and time, so a reviewer can tell exactly which lot's slab, framing or drywall a draw is paying for.

The market

Amarillo is the largest city in the Texas Panhandle and the seat of Potter County, with much of its south side in Randall County. It sits about 3,600 feet up on the High Plains, flat open country with little to slow the wind, and it ranks among the windiest cities in the nation. Interstate 40 crosses town east to west, much as Route 66 once did.

How RAZE ran it

On the High Plains the conditions are distance and volume. Projects spread out across open country, and a lender with an active Panhandle book reviews a draw on every loan, every month. RAZE runs each order on the same path, and each inspector captures against the same draw sheet criteria, so a reviewer reads every Amarillo report in the same format, whether the lender's own inspector took it through Direct Request or the Marketplace filled it.

The market

Huntsville became Alabama's largest city in the 2020 census, and the city calls itself the state's fastest-growing. The Rocket City, home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal, keeps adding neighborhoods: its Planning Commission approved more single-family lots in 2025 than in any year since 2007.

How RAZE ran it

A lot in a brand-new subdivision may have no street number when its first draw comes due, and a map may not find it at all. RAZE doesn't need the street number to prove the visit: every photo the inspector captures in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped with GPS latitude and longitude, time-stamped with the date and time, and linked to its draw sheet line item, so the record shows which lot the work was on.

The market

At 5,506 feet, Beech Mountain is the highest town in eastern America, and it straddles Avery and Watauga Counties in the North Carolina High Country. A ski resort sits in the middle of town, and the mountain can get 80 to 100 inches of snow a year. The town runs on tourism, and its population swells from a few hundred year-round residents to thousands in ski season.

How RAZE ran it

Winter access sets the schedule. Beech Mountain Parkway climbs to town in switchbacks, and signs at the bottom of the mountain flash when four-wheel drive or chains are required. A lender with no inspector of its own up here doesn't need one: the Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the report comes back in the same format as a draw in the valley.

The market

Charlottesville is an independent city on the Rivanna River in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, and the home of the University of Virginia, which Thomas Jefferson founded in 1819. Albemarle County wraps around the city on every side and has steered the county's growth into designated Development Areas since 1971, keeping most of the county rural.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here often arrive as a lot number, and some as a tract or "TBD", before a street address exists. The photo record carries the location instead: every photo has GPS latitude and longitude plus date and time stamps, linked to its draw sheet line item, so a lender can match a lot-number order to the ground that was actually inspected.