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Everybody checks the roof. Almost nobody walks the yard until the first real August afternoon, and by then there’s a buyer standing next to them. If you’re trying to sell a water damaged house in Orange Park, or you just have a corner of the yard that never dries out, this is worth an hour … Continued

Everybody who wants to sell a house fast in Orange Park and lives within a half mile of Blanding has the same worry. They think the road is going to cost them money. Sometimes it does. More often the thing that costs them money isn’t the traffic at all, it’s how they handle the conversation … Continued

Clay County generally allows one dwelling per deeded parcel. That single sentence undoes a lot of plans people have for their land, and it comes up constantly when somebody wants to sell a house on land in Orange Park with more than one thing living on it. The county also does not permit an RV … Continued

Of everything that surfaces during a title search around here, code enforcement liens cause the most damage per dollar. Not because they’re large, though they can be. Because of what people believe about them. If you’re trying to sell a property with liens in Orange Park, here’s what’s actually true. “It was the previous owner’s … Continued

Hurricane season runs June through November, and it changes how houses sell here in ways that have nothing to do with whether a storm actually shows up. Most of it comes down to insurance. A buyer can’t close without a policy, and carriers stop writing new business when a named storm is in the box. … Continued

A guy who wanted to sell a waterfront home in Orange Park showed me his place once and led with the view for about ten minutes. It was a genuinely great view. Then I asked when the seawall was last looked at and the conversation stopped cold, because nobody had looked at it in the … Continued

Short answer: inside the incorporated Town of Orange Park, the town provides water, sewer, and sanitation, and JEA provides electricity. Outside the town limits, it varies, and a lot of properties are on a private well and a septic tank because Clay County does not provide countywide water and sewer. That sounds like trivia. It … Continued

If you have to sell a house after a job transfer in Orange Park, or you’re timing a listing around the people who do, start with the base calendar. Orange Park sits closer to Naval Air Station Jacksonville than almost any other housing in Clay County, and that calendar drives more of this market than … Continued

A lot of the older houses I look at here have square footage that doesn’t show up on the county record. An enclosed carport. A Florida room. A fourth bedroom that used to be the garage. Most of the time the current owner didn’t do it. They bought the house that way in 2004 and … Continued

Most people who inherit a house spend the first few months worrying about the wrong thing. They worry about the cleanout and the condition, when what’s actually holding everything up is paperwork. If you want to sell an inherited house in Orange Park, the paperwork is the job. Get it together and the rest moves. … Continued

Clay County’s FEMA flood maps are being redrawn. The county has said the revised maps are anticipated to take effect in spring 2027, and some parcels are proposed to move into Special Flood Hazard Areas while others move out. If your house is in an Orange Park flood zone, or might be about to be, … Continued

Yes, but not the way most people think, and in Clay County the effect is smaller than it is almost anywhere else. That’s actually good news for Orange Park home values, and most sellers here have no idea they’re sitting on it. The short version: the district as a whole is strong enough that a … Continued

A guy called me last year from a parking lot off Blanding because he didn’t want to have the conversation at his own house. He’d been served eleven days earlier and hadn’t opened the envelope. He was sure somebody was coming to change his locks that week. He had months. He just didn’t know it, … Continued

People usually call me somewhere in the middle of a bad month. So the first thing I want to do is take the mystery out of the process, because not knowing what happens next is most of what makes this stressful. Here’s the whole thing in order. Step one: a phone call, about ten minutes … Continued

If you’re getting ready to sell a house in Orange Park, this trips up more people than anything else on the list, and it costs them weeks. Your mail says Orange Park. That tells you almost nothing about which government handles your property. The incorporated Town of Orange Park had 9,089 people in the 2020 … Continued