Draw Inspections in 5 Unique Places, October 2026

The market

Lakeside and Pinetop incorporated as one town, Pinetop-Lakeside, in 1984, about 6,900 feet up in Arizona's White Mountains and some 190 miles northeast of Phoenix. The Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests and White Mountain Apache lands surround the town, near the world's largest stand of ponderosa pine. Winters there bring cold and significant snowfall.

How RAZE ran it

High pine country can be a long way from a signal, so 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 flags which sets of data were captured offline and still need to sync. Nothing gets left behind on the drive back to the highway.

The market

Lakeland is the largest city in Polk County, set among 38 named lakes on Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando. As housing in both metros grew more expensive, growth spilled inland: Polk County had the largest net gain from domestic migration of any U.S. county in 2023, and the Lakeland–Winter Haven metro was the second-fastest-growing in the country from 2022 to 2023.

How RAZE ran it

New subdivisions keep going up along I-4, and a lot on a new street can come due for its first draw before a map app knows the address. Since RAZE Mobile App 1.5.1, a job whose coordinates aren't confirmed yet still reaches the marketplace with an Unconfirmed badge, and the inspector can open it, request location support and lock it. On site, every photo carries GPS coordinates and date and time stamps, linked to its draw sheet line item.

The market

Sulphur Springs is the seat of Hopkins County, on Interstate 30 roughly halfway between Dallas and Texarkana and about 79 miles from Dallas. Hopkins County was once known as the Dairy Capital of Texas, and the Southwest Dairy Museum in town still tells that story, though the county's dairy farms have declined since the late 1990s.

How RAZE ran it

Sulphur Springs sits well outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, and a lender with no inspector of its own in Hopkins County doesn't need to find one. The Marketplace sends a background-checked inspector from the RAZE Inspection Network, the inspector opens the job in the map app of their choice, and the report comes back in the same format as a draw in Dallas, at the same RAZE Rate Card price.

The market

Bethesda is an unincorporated community in southern Montgomery County, just northwest of Washington, D.C., and home to the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. With little vacant land left close in, much of the new building replaces older homes: county planners have found that more than half of Montgomery County's single-family teardowns are in Bethesda.

How RAZE ran it

A teardown-rebuild is a tight site: a new house, usually larger than the one it replaced, going up between established neighbors. Getting there often means Capital Beltway traffic, so the inspector can open the job in Waze, Google Maps or Apple Maps straight from the RAZE Mobile App. On site, every photo is geo-stamped, time-stamped and linked to its draw sheet line item, which keeps this lot's evidence apart from the house next door.

The market

Tampa is the largest city on Tampa Bay and the seat of Hillsborough County. In September 2024, Hurricane Helene's storm surge set records at every valid tide gauge around the bay, and about two weeks later Hurricane Milton came ashore on Siesta Key to the south. In a mapped flood zone, repairs or improvements that reach half of a home's market value bring the whole building under current floodplain rules, which often means elevating it.

How RAZE ran it

For a lender, a flood zone rebuild comes down to the evidence of its elevation work. In the RAZE Mobile App, the inspector photographs the foundation, the piles or stem walls and the rest of the work against the draw sheet, and every photo is geo-stamped, time-stamped and linked to the line item it supports. The lender sees the elevated structure itself, not just a percent complete.