Nashua, NH Property Maintenance: Garage Sale Rules (2026)

Nashua's ordinances do not include a stand-alone numeric cap on garage-sale days (such as Longmont's 3-day / 12-day limits). Occasional residential garage, yard, moving, and estate sales are treated as a permitted accessory residential activity. The operative constraints sit in three chapters: (1) Chapter 190 (Land Use) § 190-106 — only one ground or wall temporary sign per premises, max 32 square feet, max 8 feet tall, 10-foot setback from the public right-of-way, 30-day duration cap, and no signs in the public right-of-way or on public property. (2) Chapter 231 (Peddling, Soliciting and Vending) — no person may act as a vendor within the City of Nashua unless licensed; the Vendor License is issued by the City Clerk at $10 per day, $25 per week, or $100 per year. A truly occasional household garage sale is not 'vendor activity,' but a recurring or commercial-volume sale operated from a residence would be vendor activity requiring a Chapter 231 license and may also exceed the residential-use limits of the Chapter 190 zoning district. (3) Chapter 182 (Housing Standards) — items accumulating in the yard for a 'permanent' garage sale that becomes blight may be reachable under Chapter 182 Article V. Professional estate-sale companies operating in Nashua typically must hold a Chapter 231 vendor license. New Hampshire does not impose a state sales tax on occasional personal sales by non-business sellers — there is no state retail sales tax — but the federal Internal Revenue Code still treats recurring or business-volume activity as taxable income.