No numeric cap applies. Neither South Bend, Mishawaka, nor unincorporated St. Joseph County publishes an annual limit on household garage sales. The practical line is that constant sales turn a home into an unlicensed store.
How often you can hold a sale is not fixed by a county or city number here. South Bend and Mishawaka set no published annual cap on genuine residential garage or rummage sales, and the unincorporated county has none either. That is looser than towns elsewhere that cap sales at three or four a year. The real limit is character, not count: a household sale is fine occasionally, but running sales week after week can be treated as operating a retail business without a license or proper zoning, which draws enforcement. Keeping sales to a few short events a year stays comfortably within bounds.
No fine attaches to a specific sale number. Holding sales so continuously that the property functions as an unlicensed store can trigger zoning and business-license enforcement instead.
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