Forsyth County requires no permit to hold an occasional household yard or garage sale on your own residential property. Directional weekend signs need no permit either but must stay off public rights-of-way and follow county limits.
A genuine household garage or yard sale on owner-occupied residential property is a customary accessory use in Forsyth County and needs no county permit; the temporary-vending permit applies to commercial vendors, not residents clearing out their own belongings. Signs advertising the sale are treated as weekend signs under the county sign ordinance: they need no permit but are allowed only Friday noon through Sunday 6 p.m., limited to one per lot, capped at six square feet, and prohibited in any public right-of-way. Much of Forsyth County is HOA-governed, and those associations impose their own sale and sign rules.
Placing a weekend sign in a right-of-way or otherwise against the ordinance carries a minimum $100 fine, and off-property signs are removed by the county.
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