Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, May 2025

The market

Austin is the capital of Texas and the seat of Travis County, and the city reaches into Williamson and Hays Counties as well. Its metro ranked sixth in the country for single-family building permits over the first ten months of 2024. Inside the city, the rules for a lot have changed: the HOME amendments approved in late 2023 allow up to three homes on a lot zoned for one, and in 2024 the minimum lot size fell from 5,750 to 1,800 square feet.

How RAZE ran it

A lender's Austin book can hold a small-lot infill home in the urban core and a new house in a subdivision across a county line in the same month. Every order follows the same path in RAZE: placed in the Ordering Engine, dispatched, captured in the RAZE Mobile App against the draw sheet and delivered in one report format. A reviewer reads every Austin draw the same way, whichever county the lot is in.

The market

Clarksville was founded in 1785 where the Red River meets the Cumberland, and it is named for George Rogers Clark. It counted 166,722 residents in the 2020 census, the fifth-largest city in Tennessee, and Census estimates have ranked it among the state's fastest-growing cities. Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, straddles the Kentucky line about 10 miles from downtown.

How RAZE ran it

Orders here have come in as lot numbers, before the street had an address a map could find, so the location has to come from the evidence. Every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App carries GPS latitude and longitude with date and time stamps and is linked to its draw sheet line item, so the lender sees which lot and which work the draw is paying for, whatever the order called the address.

The market

Hampstead is an unincorporated community in Pender County on U.S. 17, about 17 miles northeast of Wilmington, bordered by tidal marsh and the Intracoastal Waterway. It counted about 7,000 residents in the 2020 census, and Pender County provides its services. U.S. 17 is the main road through it, and in 2022 NCDOT broke ground on the Hampstead Bypass, a four-lane divided highway on a new route meant to take traffic off it.

How RAZE ran it

Much of a Hampstead draw is the drive along U.S. 17 and the roads that branch off it. Wherever along the corridor a site sits, every photo the inspector captures in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped and time-stamped against its draw sheet line item, so the lender sees where each photo was taken, when, and which line of the budget it supports.

The market

Fripp Island is a private, gated barrier island in Beaufort County, reached by a bridge from Hunting Island State Park, where U.S. 21 ends. Until that bridge was built in 1963, the only way on was by boat. The island's roughly 3,000 acres are a gated community and a designated wildlife sanctuary, and every driver coming on needs a pass from the security gate.

How RAZE ran it

Getting onto the island takes a gate pass, and the inspector who goes through that gate doesn't have to be the lender's own. The Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network; a lender that already works with someone near Beaufort can send them by Direct Request instead. The geo-stamped photos and the report come back through the same workflow either way.

The market

Blue Ridge has been the Fannin County seat since 1895. The town sits more than 1,700 feet up in the North Georgia mountains near Lake Blue Ridge, a reservoir with about 60 miles of shoreline, and the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway runs from town along the Toccoa River to McCaysville and back. Fannin County borders both North Carolina and Tennessee, and its mountain terrain makes a reliable cell signal hard to count on.

How RAZE ran it

Sites around Blue Ridge can be a long way from a signal, so the RAZE Mobile App keeps capturing offline. Photos and responses are saved on the phone, the app shows which sets of data were captured offline and still need to sync, and everything syncs in full once the device reconnects. Orders here have also come in as lot numbers, and every photo carries GPS coordinates and a time stamp to place the work.