it's the largest open house in the River
City Northeast Florida Builders
Association is kicking off its annual
Parade of Homes and channel 4 has a very
special program tonight about this big
event builders are showcasing their
expertise in architecture interior
design and quality craftsmanship joining
me now is Chris dusty he is the
president of Northeast Florida Builders
Association I mean I love looking at
houses I think that's why some of those
Saturday morning shows you know that
just show you everything and these are
some of the best of the best tell me who
will be involved in this Parade of Homes
well it's builders and developers from
all over the Northeast Florida community
so there's 33 different home builders
represented we have 91 home entries in
the parade this year across 65 different
communities so it's it's it's a
wonderful sampling of everything from
every price point that that are you know
new home builders and developers have to
offer the community I saw something like
91 homes that you driver yeah 91 homes
you can tour and what are the types of
things well now we're getting a look I
mean we're gonna see everything it's
it's also good I have to say this for
decorating idea that all the time
absolutely and that's the parade is for
the community it's for everyone if
you're looking for a new home there's
not a better time to do it because it's
low pressure you can come out and tour
you know a bunch of different homes in a
bunch of different communities but also
if you're looking purely for remodeling
ideas decorating ideas you can't you
can't do better than this time of year
in terms of being able to see a whole
bunch in a really short period of time
now are some of these um privately owned
homes already or are they all show homes
no they're all show homes typically
they're builder models and and and they
are on display typically you know every
day of the week but during the parade
hours are a little bit adjusted and and
the representatives and sales forces are
really dedicated to you know meeting you
the public and and displaying their
homes everybody always wants to buy the
show home that's all that way so let's
talk about when it's gonna be open so it
starts this Saturday the 14th and it
runs through April 29th the the homes
for the parade perp says open at noon
each day and go until 6:00 p.m. so you
got plenty of time to get out there and
it's you know it's really dedicated to
to the community and for the people that
want to come out and tour the parade
as you mentioned this goes to a lot of
different price points a lot of
different neighborhoods um you you
wanted to make it really easy for people
to be able to do this because they're
scattered around the area right yes so
it's it covers the four County area
Nassau Duval st. John's and clay there's
homes and and communities and all of
them that are on display and organizing
that and helping the helping the cook
the customer the parade go or get out
and be able to see everything is was was
a major focus of the the team at nefta
that was putting on the parade this year
and so we have in addition to our
website parade of homes Jack's calm and
and the parade guide which you can pick
up at any of the new Wawa locations
it'll be right in there and right up
front when you walk in we also have an
app or your for your iPhone and Android
so if you're out and about on Saturday
or Sunday and you hadn't really thought
about going to the parade but you decide
you have an hour to kill you can
download the app pull it up and see what
you're close to and you're probably
within a couple miles of a parade show
home so it's a good opportunity to get
out and see it that's fantastic I mean
I'm thinking like you know you can go
with the girls I mean it could even be
like a date day I mean I would enjoy
that I mean it's so much fun get lunch
in between going to some of these houses
is there NT of a favorite house well I
mean I'm partial to the ones dosti homes
as well and you know I don't know I
don't have any favorites per se but we
do have a new category this year we have
five dream homes that are out there all
of these homes are priced over a million
dollars and that's kind of a new thing
because typically when you get up into
those price points you don't have a lot
of model homes but we reached out to a
couple of builders that build in that
price point and they said hey this is a
great idea so it's sort of a new
category a good way to go see some of
that really high-end luxury home also
channel four is super excited to present
a Parade of Homes special it is tonight
it's from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. you can also
catch it saturday at 2 p.m. and hope i
run into some of you guys out there
touring these homes