Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, November 2025

The market

Columbia is South Carolina's capital and the seat of Richland County, with 136,632 residents at the 2020 census and part of the city in Lexington County. It sits on the fall line where the Broad and Saluda Rivers join to form the Congaree, a river that also marks part of the line between Richland and Lexington. Fort Jackson, the Army's largest initial entry training post, is next door.

How RAZE ran it

Rivers and a county line run through the middle of the Midlands, so a month of Columbia draws can land on both banks and in two counties. Every photo taken in the RAZE Mobile App is geo-stamped and time-stamped and linked to its draw sheet line item, so the lender sees which side of the water each draw's work is on, and gets the same report from a site in Richland County as from one in Lexington.

The market

Freeport sits in the middle of Walton County, on the north side of Choctawhatchee Bay in the Florida Panhandle. U.S. 331 crosses the bay to Santa Rosa Beach on the Clyde B. Wells Bridge, more than two miles long, with a second span for northbound traffic finished in 2017. Freeport had 1,787 residents at the 2010 census and 5,861 in 2020.

How RAZE ran it

A lender based outside the Panhandle may have no inspector of its own around the bay, and it doesn't need one. The lender orders through RAZE as usual, the Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, and the photos, geo-stamps and time stamps come back in the same report as a draw anywhere else. A lender that already works with an inspector on the bay can route the order by Direct Request instead.

The market

Banner Elk is a small Avery County town of about a thousand year-round residents, more than 3,500 feet up in North Carolina's High Country, between the Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain ski slopes. Lees-McRae College is in town, and the Woolly Worm Festival has been held here every October since 1978.

How RAZE ran it

Orders in Banner Elk have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed. Every photo from the RAZE Mobile App carries GPS latitude and longitude and a date and time stamp, linked to its draw sheet line item, so the lender can see which mountain lot the work is on before the street has a number.

The market

Denton is the seat of Denton County, at the north end of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where Interstates 35E and 35W join again as I-35. The University of North Texas, founded in 1890, and Texas Woman's University, founded in 1901, are both here. Denton County passed one million residents in Census Bureau estimates for 2023, the seventh Texas county to get there.

How RAZE ran it

Growth on that scale keeps draws coming due all over the county. RAZE runs each order through the same four steps (order, dispatch, capture, deliver), and every inspector captures against the same draw sheet criteria, so a lender reviews a Denton draw beside one from Dallas or Fort Worth without translating between report formats.

The market

Ellijay is the seat of Gilmer County, incorporated in 1834 where the Ellijay and Cartecay Rivers join to form the Coosawattee. It is known as the Apple Capital of Georgia and holds the Georgia Apple Festival every October, and mountain lots sit in the hills around a town of 1,862 people.

How RAZE ran it

Orders in Ellijay have come in as lot numbers, before a street address existed, and a site up a mountain road can be a long way from a signal. The RAZE Mobile App keeps capturing offline: photos, percent complete and responses are saved on the phone, everything syncs in full once the device reconnects, and the app shows which sets of data were captured offline and still need to sync.