0.24 Acres for Sale in Lake Placid, Florida

0.24 Acre Near Lake Istokpoga

212 Fascination Dr : Lake Placid, FL 33852

Highlands County, Florida

0.24 Acre

$15,500 USD

Land Description

Most things you buy lose value. A car. A phone. A month of rent.

Land is different. Land stays. It has a number on file at the county. It sits there whether you think about it or not.

This is a 0.24 acre lot in Lake Placid, Florida. It is Lot 18, Block 62, in Sun N Lakes Estates Section 9. It sits on a county maintained street with an address already on it. The zoning is R1, single family homes.

That matters more than people think. This is not a share of something. It is not a piece of paper. It is a real lot with four corners you can stand on.

For a first time buyer, that is the whole point. Most people's first big purchase is a house they cannot afford yet, or a retirement account they cannot touch for thirty years. Land sits in the middle. It is simple to understand, and you can get there from right where you are standing today.

The Land Itself

Here is exactly what you are buying.

Room to build what you actually want. The lot is 0.24 acre. That is 10,475 square feet. Picture the house. Now add the driveway, a front yard, a back yard, and a shed. You still have room left. Add a pool behind the house and you still have grass around it. Drive through Sun N Lakes and you will see people doing exactly that. Pools. Decks. Boats parked beside the house. There is space here for the full version of the place, not a stripped down one. And nobody has to mow forty acres to keep it looking good.

Flood Zone X. High and dry. Zone X is the land that sits outside the 100 year floodplain. It is the zone you want to be in, and it is what the FEMA map shows for this lot.

110 feet above sea level. That is high ground in Florida, where most of the state sits close to sea level. The soil here is sand, and sand drains. Rain moves down through it instead of pooling on top. High ground, sandy soil, Zone X. This lot stays dry.

A recorded lot with a real address. 212 Fascination Drive. It is Lot 18, Block 62 of Sun N Lakes Estates Section 9, drawn on Plat Book 8, Page 69. It has its own lot number and its own street frontage, and the road is maintained by the county. That is a head start most raw land does not give you. A platted, addressed lot on a county road is far simpler to build on than acreage that has never been split or surveyed.

Zoned R1, and the county says a house can be built here. That is the answer straight from Highlands County. No guessing.

Taxes of $148 a year. That is the whole year, on the whole lot. And on owner financing your taxes are already covered inside your monthly payment. One number a month, nothing else to track.

Clean and current. Zero back taxes. We ran a full title search before we bought it. We run due diligence on every parcel before it goes into our inventory, and anything that does not come back clean never gets listed. That work is finished. It was our job, not yours.

The county values this land at $25,000 an acre. You are paying about $15,500 for the lot.

Picture Your Life Here

Now the part you actually get to live in.

Lake Placid sits in the middle of Florida's lake country. Twenty seven freshwater lakes circle this town.

Lake Istokpoga is the big one. About 27,000 acres. It is the fifth largest lake in Florida and it sits about five miles east. Bass fishermen drive in from all over the country for it. There are five public boat ramps and a string of old fish camps around the shore.

Lake June in Winter is southwest of town. It is deep and clear, which is rare down here. Lake Clay and Lake Placid are minutes away.

If you have ever wanted a boat trailer in your driveway, this is the right part of Florida for it.

The town has real character too. Lake Placid is the Caladium Capital of the World. That is not a slogan someone made up. The farms around town grow most of the world's caladium bulbs. By midsummer the fields run bright red and pink all the way to the trees.

They also call it the Town of Murals. There are more than forty big paintings on the downtown walls. Some of them cover a whole building. Saturday morning downtown looks the way a small town is supposed to look.

The outdoors here is the good kind. Lake June in Winter Scrub State Park protects a piece of the old ridge and is home to the Florida scrub jay, a bird that lives nowhere else on earth. Archbold Biological Station sits just south of town. Up near Sebring you have Highlands Hammock State Park, one of Florida's first state parks, with old woods and boardwalks out over the swamp.

You are also close to everything. Sebring is about twenty miles north on US 27. That is where you find the hospitals, the shopping, the state college, and the Sebring race track. Orlando and Tampa are each about two hours. The Gulf beaches near Fort Myers are an hour and a half to two hours southwest. The Palm Beaches are about two hours east.

Then there is winter. Dry air. Long sun. Days in the seventies while the rest of the country scrapes ice off the windshield.

Building Here

R1 is a real neighborhood zoning, and that works in your favor.

Highlands County allows a site built home or a modular home here, with at least 750 square feet of living space, set on a continuous concrete foundation. Once your home is up, camping on your own land is fine. Streets like this one keep their look because your neighbors have to build a real house too.

Good news on power. Duke Energy and Glades Electric both serve this area, so the lines are already nearby. Water and sewer out here run on a well and septic setup, which is how most homes in this county do it, and that goes in when you build. Propane covers your gas. Trash is on a collection route.

When you are ready to build, Highlands County Development Services handles the permit. That is the whole list.

Who This Land Is For

This one is for the person buying their first real asset.

Maybe you have been saving without a target. Maybe you have heard other people talk about property like it is a club nobody invited you to. Or maybe you are just tired of paying rent on things that disappear.

Land is a reasonable first step. There is no tenant. No roof. No plumbing. No 2 a.m. phone call. At $148 a year in taxes, holding it will not squeeze your budget. And unlike most first investments, you can go see it.

What you do later is up to you. Build a house when you are ready. Hold it while Highlands County keeps growing along US 27. Sell it and buy the next one. Leave it to your kids.

The best part of a first asset is not the asset. It is that owning one changes what you think you can do next.

Cash buyers own it free and clear on day one. If you finance it, come out and walk your land any time you like.

Simple Owner Financing

The terms are simple. No bank is involved.

Discounted Cash Price: $15,500

That is a discount for paying in full. Pay cash and $15,500 is the number, start to finish.

Easy Owner Financing Available:

●       Down Payment: $349

●       Documentation Fee: $249 (one time)

●       Total Due Today: $598

●       Monthly Payment: $349 per month for 60 months

●       No interest

●       One payment covers everything, property taxes included

●       No credit check and no bank approval

If you are okay with the down payment and happy with the monthly payment, we have a deal. Nobody is going to pull your score, ask for two years of tax returns, or tell you that you are not ready.

You Are Protected

Every purchase comes with the 100 Day Love It or Swap It promise.

Come see your land in the first 100 days. If it is not right for you, your money moves. Every dollar of principal you paid gets credited toward any other property we have of equal or greater value. You cover the difference plus a small processing fee. Your principal carries over in full.

There is one flat $249 document fee. No other closing costs. No realtor commission. No junk fees.

Your Warranty Deed is recorded in your name at the county. A Warranty Deed is the strongest form of ownership there is.

Property Details

Property Address: 212 Fascination Dr, Lake Placid, FL 33852

State: Florida

County: Highlands

Zip: 33852

Size: 0.24 acre, 10,475 square feet

Parcel / APN: C-22-37-30-090-0620-0180

Legal Description: Sun N Lakes Est Sec 9, PB 8 PG 69, Lot 18, Block 62

Section / Township / Range: Section 22, Township 37S, Range 30E

Elevation: 110 feet above sea level

Flood Zone: Zone X, outside the 100 year floodplain

Terrain: Level, well drained sandy soil

Zoning: R1 Single Family Residential

What Can Be Built: Site built or modular home, 750 square foot minimum, continuous concrete foundation

Road Access: County maintained street with assigned address

Electric: Duke Energy or Glades Electric serve this area

Water: Well

Sewer: Septic

Gas: Propane

Trash: Collection service available

Annual Taxes: $148

Back Taxes: None

County Market Value: $25,000 per acre

How To Get It

There is one step. Message us today and say you want 212 Fascination Drive.

That is all you have to do. We handle the rest from there, and we can have this wrapped up in 24 hours.

No bank to convince. No credit score to worry about. No closing table and no realtor.

We own this lot outright and we only sell it once. When it is gone, it is gone.

Message us today and put 212 Fascination Drive in your name.

Golden Ridge Partners