Columbia County sets no countywide cap on how many garage or yard sales a household may hold per year. What matters is that the activity stays occasional and does not become an ongoing retail business. HOAs commonly impose their own limits.
Columbia County's code fixes no specific number of garage or yard sales per household per year. The dividing line is character: a genuine, occasional sale of your own household goods is a normal residential activity, but running frequent, continuous sales, or selling merchandise bought for resale, crosses into operating a business, which requires proper zoning and a licensed home occupation. Where residents most often meet a hard number is their HOA covenants, since much of Evans and Martinez sits under homeowner associations that cap sales, often two to four a year, and regulate signs and hours far more tightly than the county does.
Running repeated sales as unlicensed retail can trigger zoning and business-license enforcement. HOA violations bring separate covenant fines set by the association.
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