Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, July 2025

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Charleston is South Carolina's oldest and largest city. It was founded in 1670 and moved in 1680 to its peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, and it has long since outgrown it: the city limits take in West Ashley, James Island, Johns Island, Daniel Island and the Cainhoy peninsula, among the most recently annexed parts of the city and one where population and new development have boomed.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed, so the location has to come from the record rather than the order. 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. A reviewer can see which island, which side of which river and which lot the work was captured on.

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Knoxville was Tennessee's first capital and is now its third-most populous city, home to the University of Tennessee and the headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Tennessee River begins at the city's eastern edge, where the Holston and French Broad Rivers meet. West of the city, in Hardin Valley, rolling hills that were mostly farms are now full of subdivisions.

How RAZE ran it

Knox County sits in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, where long, narrow ridges run from northeast to southwest, and two sites a few miles apart on a map can be on opposite sides of one. Every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped and time-stamped and linked to its draw sheet line item, so a reviewer sees which side of the ridge, and which lot, each draw's work was captured on.

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Tuscaloosa served as Alabama's capital from 1826 to 1846, and the University of Alabama opened here in 1831. The name comes from the Choctaw words for black warrior, and the Black Warrior River runs along the north side of the city. On April 27, 2011, an EF4 tornado cut across Tuscaloosa, and the neighborhoods in its path, Alberta among them, took years to rebuild.

How RAZE ran it

A lender that finances building here from Birmingham, or from out of state, doesn't need an inspector of its own in Tuscaloosa County. The Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the photos, time stamps and report come back through the standard workflow. A lender that does have an inspector here can route the order by Direct Request instead.

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Boone is the Watauga County seat, named for Daniel Boone and home to Appalachian State University, at 3,333 feet in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the North Carolina High Country. In late September 2024, Hurricane Helene's rains flooded parts of downtown and the Appalachian State campus, where Boone Creek overran its banks.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed, and mountainside sites can be a long way from a signal. The RAZE Mobile App keeps capturing offline: photos and responses stay on the phone, the app shows which sets of data still need to sync, and everything syncs in full once the device reconnects. Every photo carries GPS coordinates with date and time stamps, so the lot is in the record.

The market

Round Rock took its name in 1854 from a round, anvil-shaped rock in Brushy Creek that marked a low-water crossing. About 20 miles north of downtown Austin, it is the international headquarters of Dell Technologies and passed 119,000 residents at the 2020 census. Most of the city lies in Williamson County, with a small part across the line in Travis County.

How RAZE ran it

Greater Austin's growth runs across county lines, and a lender's draws there can land in Travis County one day and Williamson County the next. None of that changes the work: every order follows the same path, every inspector captures against the same criteria, and every report comes back in the same format, so a month of draws across the metro reads as one portfolio.