Selling your vacant lot in Marion Oaks

If you own a lot in Marion Oaks

You own a lot in Marion Oaks and you never built on it. Maybe you bought it a long time ago. Maybe it came to you when a relative died. Either way the tax bill still shows up.

You can sell it. It costs nothing to find out what it is worth. Tell us where the lot is. We look it up in the county records ourselves. Then you get a written offer. You can say no at any time.

We are a small, private Florida company. We put vacant residential land under contract and see it through to closing at a licensed title company. We are not agents. We do not list your lot or sell it for you.

What Marion Oaks is

Marion Oaks sits in the southwest corner of Marion County, below Ocala. The ZIP code is 34473.

It is one of the giant Florida subdivisions from the 1960s and 1970s. The land was cut into small home lots and sold off, much of it by mail, to buyers all over the country. It covers about 15,000 acres. About 28,000 lots were platted. Most are set for one single-family home.

A great many of those lots were never built on. People held them for decades. People died and left them to their children. Plenty of the owners today live in another state and have never seen the lot.

If that is you, you are not unusual, and this is a routine sale.

There is no HOA and no CDD

Marion Oaks has no mandatory homeowners association. It has no CDD either.

That means two things for you. An empty lot there does not run up yearly association dues. And there is no association lien to clear when you sell. Your yearly cost on the lot is the property tax.

It is not like that everywhere in Florida. Some subdivisions charge a full yearly fee on a lot with nothing on it.

Water at the street, or a well and a septic tank

Utilities in Marion Oaks are a lot-by-lot question. Some lots have electric at the street and would need a well and a septic tank put in.

Marion County has been running a central water main into part of the community, one unit at a time. Unit 4 is one of those areas. Hooking up to the main is not free either.

This moves your price more than almost anything else. A lot with water at the street is usually worth more than a lot where someone has to drill a well and install a septic tank.

Marion County Utilities can tell you what is at your street. It costs nothing to ask.

Most of it is high and dry, but check yours

Marion Oaks is mostly high and dry. Many lots there are not in a mapped flood zone.

That is not a promise about your lot. The ground is flat and the soil holds water in spots, so a lot can drain poorly even outside a flood zone. Marion County says plainly that a lot can be legally vacant and still be hard to build on.

You can check yours for free. The county flood map shows flood zones. The federal wetlands map shows wet ground.

The tax bill comes whether you use the lot or not

That is the part that wears people down. An empty lot earns nothing and gets taxed every year anyway.

Florida runs the same cycle in every county. Bills go out around November 1. Pay early and you get a small discount, 4 percent in November, then 3, then 2, then 1 percent in February. Taxes are due by March 31. They are late on April 1. Around June 1 the Tax Collector holds a tax certificate sale on unpaid lots.

Behind on yours? That is common and it does not stop a sale. Here is how selling with back taxes works.

What we can offer, said plainly

The price we can offer is below full retail. That is how we stay in business, and we tell you up front. In exchange there is no fee, no commission, no listing, and no showings.

You can also list the lot with a Florida agent. On some lots that puts more in your pocket, even after the fee and the wait. We will tell you honestly if that looks like your case.

Want to check the number yourself first? Here is how to find what your lot is worth, free, with nothing to sign.

How to sell your Marion Oaks lot

Write to us. The parcel number is ideal. The block and lot, or just the street name, is fine too.

We do the county homework ourselves. It costs you nothing.

You get a written offer. Take your time with it.

A licensed title company handles the closing. It holds the money, settles any back taxes, and pays you. You sign only when you are ready.

Tell us about your Marion Oaks lot