Greenwood County, SC Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Greenwood County Code § 6-3-109(d) allows garage and yard sales, and auctions of second-hand merchandise, as an accessory use to a residential property, but caps how often a household can hold one. A resident may run no more than four such sales in a calendar year from the same property, and each individual sale is limited to two consecutive days. The merchandise sold under this accessory-use allowance must have actually been used on the premises; the provision does not cover auctioning off goods brought in from other sites, such as vehicles or heavy equipment bought elsewhere for resale.

The FA forest agricultural district's own accessory-use rule at § 6-3-49(f)(7) and the WD waterfront development district's rule at § 6-3-50(f)(6) set a lower cap for those two districts, two sales per 12-month period per residence for a maximum of two days per sale, so the four-sale limit in § 6-3-109 is specific to the districts not otherwise covered by the FA or WD accessory-use lists. Either way, no zoning or building permit is required to hold a garage sale within these frequency limits; the rule functions purely as a cap on frequency and duration rather than a licensing requirement, and it sits alongside the other accessory uses allowed in required yards under the same section, including sheds, satellite dishes and private swimming pools.