Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, March 2026

The market

Corrales is a village of about 8,500 people on the Rio Grande, just north of Albuquerque in southern Sandoval County. Pueblo people farmed this stretch of the river before Spanish settlers arrived, the village's Pueblo and Hispano acequias are still maintained, and the bosque runs along its eastern edge. Corrales has kept a one-acre minimum lot size since it incorporated in 1971, so new homes go up on acreage rather than in tracts.

How RAZE ran it

On an acre or more along a rural lane, an address may not resolve cleanly on a map, and a home can sit well back from the lane. RAZE doesn't rely on the address to place the work: on site, each photo the inspector captures in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped with GPS coordinates and time-stamped with the date and time, linked to its draw sheet line item, so the lender sees where on the parcel the evidence was captured.

The market

German immigrants founded Fredericksburg in 1846. Today it is the county seat of Gillespie County, a city of about 11,000 people some 80 miles west of Austin, and the center of its own federally recognized wine region: the Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country AVA, established in 1988, lies entirely within the county. Visitors come for both the heritage and the wineries.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed. A lot number gives a map nothing to find, so the record has to locate the work: every photo captured in the RAZE Mobile App carries GPS latitude and longitude with date and time stamps, tied to the draw sheet line item it supports. The lender reviewing a Hill Country draw sees where each photo was taken, not only the lot number on the order.

The market

Frostproof is a city of under 3,000 people in southern Polk County, built between Lake Clinch and Lake Reedy on the Lake Wales Ridge, the ancient sand ridge that runs about 100 miles down central Florida. Its name was a promise to land buyers in the 1890s that frost would never reach the citrus. The Great Freeze of 1895 broke that promise within a few years, and the country around town is still groves, lakes and rural roads.

How RAZE ran it

Sites around Frostproof can sit well off the main roads, between groves and lakes, and getting to the property is part of the job. The inspection itself doesn't change: every order runs the same four steps (order, dispatch, capture, deliver), and the report reads the same as one from a lot in town. A lender with no inspector of its own in southern Polk County doesn't need one, because the Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network.

The market

Bald Head Island sits at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, about two miles across the water from Southport, and there is no bridge. The way on is the passenger ferry from Deep Point Marina in Southport, a ride of about 20 minutes, or a private boat. Visitors' cars stay on the mainland, and the island gets around by golf cart, by bike and on foot. Old Baldy, finished in 1817, is the oldest lighthouse still standing in North Carolina.

How RAZE ran it

Scheduling here depends on the ferry running, so a draw inspection on Bald Head Island is planned around the crossing rather than the drive. A lender doesn't need an inspector of its own in Brunswick County: the Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and a lender that already works with someone near Southport can send them by Direct Request through the same workflow. The capture, the geo-stamped photos and the report don't change on the island.

The market

Menlo is a small city of a few hundred people in Chattooga County, in northwest Georgia near the Alabama line. It sits at the foot of Lookout Mountain, about three miles below Cloudland on the mountain's top and about eight miles west of Summerville, the county seat. State Route 337 runs northeast from town through the Broomtown Valley.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, so the location comes from the record: every photo carries GPS coordinates and date and time stamps, linked to its draw sheet line item. Rural sites under the mountain can also be a long way from a signal. The RAZE Mobile App keeps capturing offline, syncs every set of data in full once the phone reconnects, and tells the inspector which sets were captured offline and still need to sync.