Unincorporated Bay County sets no fixed cap on garage sales, but frequent, ongoing sales cross into unlicensed retail and zoning enforcement. Cities and HOAs often limit households to a few sales a year.
The county publishes no hard sales-per-year number for unincorporated areas, so a genuine occasional yard sale is fine. The real line is the character of use: repeated, continuous, or weekly sales make a home look like a retail store, which residential zoning and home-occupation rules don't allow. Selling only your own household goods a few times a year stays on the right side of that line; buying merchandise to resell does not. Incorporated cities and HOA covenants commonly do cap sales - often two to four per household each year - so check the local rules that apply to your address.
A pattern of ongoing sales can be cited as an unpermitted home business or commercial use in a residential zone, bringing code-enforcement notices and daily fines until it stops.
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