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The Orange Park housing market gets written about one number at a time, which is how you get two articles in the same week saying opposite things. The short version: Clay County is a seller’s market by inventory and a slow one by how long houses actually sit. Both are true at once, and which … Continued

We had a contractor working at a house and he backed his truck across the yard, which is what anybody would do. The septic tank lid was under there. It gave out and the back end of the truck dropped into the tank. Nobody got hurt. The truck came out. The day was gone. That’s … Continued

You can sell a mobile home in Orange Park without owning the ground under it. People do it constantly out here. It just isn’t a real estate sale, and that catches almost everybody off guard. It’s closer to selling a truck. Which sounds like a joke until you’re standing at a tax collector’s office holding … Continued

I spent 11 years as a licensed realtor, and most of that was working with for-sale-by-owner sellers and investors. So when somebody says they want to sell a house without a realtor in Orange Park, I don’t have the reaction most people in real estate have. I’ve watched it go fine. I’ve also watched it … Continued

Nobody sells the house the week they lose the job. They sell it five months later, after the severance is gone and the credit card has turned into the mortgage payment. By then somebody else is making the decision for them. Selling a house due to financial hardship in Orange Park goes very differently depending … Continued

If you’re at the point of typing “sell my house for cash” and adding Orange Park to it, you probably have five or six questions you’d rather ask somebody than read about on a homepage. Short version: yes we actually buy them ourselves, no you don’t fix anything, no you don’t clean anything out, and … Continued

I was cutting the grass at a house we’d just bought and the yard next door had gotten away from somebody. Waist high. The kind where you’re not sure what’s in it. It was pulling down the whole street, so when I finished ours I kept going and did theirs. Somebody called the police on … Continued