Nov-2017

100 101 TIDEWATER HOMES www.allybuildingsolutions.com ally noun; a person, group or nation that has united with another for a common cause or purpose. Ally Building Solutions offers more than flooring products and installation services. We believe in building partnerships that far exceed the reach of just being another flooring or design vendor. We are dedicated to providing you with solutions! 4428 SW 36th St., Orlando, FL 32811 407-930-7135 7380 Phillips Hwy, Ste. 402 Jacksonville, FL 32256 904-647-8388 Ally Building Solutions is committed to excellence every step of the way! It starts with our immediate contact with the homebuyer and lasts long after the final installation. At Ally, we stand behind our work, our products and our people to insure 100% satisfaction on every job! We are YOUR Design Studio solution! years and years.” Brannock believes that Tidewater’s big advan- tage over the large production builders is its extensive list of standard offerings. “If you go to a production builder, you’re going to walk into the model home and be wowed with all the stuff, and they’re going to tell you, for example, that the house starts at $400,000, but how it sits, it’s $800,000,”he says.“Whereas, if we’re building a spec house,we only have to put maybe $20 or $30,000 worth of sizzle factor outside of what we already consider standard. In all of our houses you get the large 7¼ inch base- boards; you’re getting a much higher end kitchen cabinet; you’re getting solid stone surfaces through- out the home; you get structured wiring; you get a paver driveway. So, a lot of these items that people want–they get them as our standard rather than being nickeled and dimed for it.We throw that all in as a package.Of course,we do have options that peo- ple can pick to go above and beyond, but our base is already pretty superior to a production builder’s base.” McDade believes that building only in what he calls “A” locations is another competitive advantage that the firmwill soon capitalize upon.“We just com- mitted to a new community in St. Johns County called Rivertown,”Brannock reports.“It’s a master-planned community, but what’s unique about is there’s one section that is situated along the St. Johns River that is considered an estate section called ‘Riverside at Rivertown.’Within that section,we have committed to 20 homesites.We’re going to be in our own private, gated pod; we will be the only builder in there. “They’re going to be larger houses–the minimum square footage allowed is 3,000 square feet.And all the homes are going to be on stemwall. (Stemwalls are structures that are used to connect the foun- dation of a building to its walls.The wall is usually assembled with the use of concrete and steel, and works with the foundational slab to create a stable basis for the building.) Our homes will start in the low $600Ks and go up from there,which is a market area in St. Johns County that really isn’t served as much. So, it’s going to be a higher end community. We’re very excited about it because it fits our busi- ness model well and our style of house,we think, will be very well received in that area.The homesites, themselves, are going to average 120 feet wide, and it’s going to be pretty unique in the sense that it’s being cleared selectively; there are going to be a lot of signature trees left.”