A Wooded Two for The Quiet Years

Land Description

Owner Financing:

- $2000 down (plus the $500 doc fee)

- $2000 down $495/Mo for 78 months (plus prorated taxes and a $12/Mo note maintenance fee)

Two Acres, a Creek, and the Quiet That Comes with Both

Walk this property from the front and the first half feels like most of the sandy wooded country in this part of Florida: cottonwood, magnolia, pine, and a floor soft enough to hear your own boots on. Keep walking and Battle Creek shows up near the midpoint, which is the kind of surprise most two-acre parcels don't have the budget for. The back end runs into wetland from there, which means the creek has company and you have a natural fence line the county protects for you.

On the honest-dirt side, access is not the easiest part of this parcel. The legal platted access is overgrown to the point that it's mostly a line on a map, so most people come in from Watson Lane on foot and cross Battle Creek to walk the southern reach. Cell service is one bar at the parcel, voice calls only, so plan on a hotspot or Starlink if you need internet. No power or water runs to the lot today, and neighbors are sparse enough that a direct tap is a longer conversation with the utility than it would be closer to town. The wetlands in the back 60% are wildlife country and state-regulated, meaning they stay the way they are, which is the point.

Florida does quiet differently than most places. The loud pockets get written about and the rest just sit there, wet and wooded, with a creek running through somebody's two acres. A piece like this is somewhere you put a small house, a porch, a couple of good chairs, and let the years do what they're going to do.

Subdivision: Oakwood Hills Unit Iv

STREET Address: N/A, near Defuniak Springs, FL 32433

State: Fl

COUNTY: Walton County, Fl

Zip: 32433

Size: 2 acres

LOT Dimensions: 582 feet (Northern Leg) x 306 feet (Eastern Leg) x 355 feet (Southern Leg) x 179 feet (Western Leg)

Apn: 073N0010

Legal Description: Lot(2), Block (21) Oakwood Hills Unit IV, subdivision in Section 7, Township 3N, Range 20W, accordingto map filed in Plat Book 4, Page 13, of the Public Records of Walton County, Florida.

Google Maps Link:

Lat/Long Coordinates:

Nw: 30.769271, -86.286481

Ne: 30.768537, -86.286929

Sw: 30.768225, -86.287986

Se: 30.768664, -86.288197

Additional Coordinates:

North: 30.769271, -86.286481

East: 30.768537, -86.286929

South: 30.768225, -86.287986

West: 30.768664, -86.288197

Elevation: 192 feet

ANNUAL Taxes: Approx. $165 per year

ZONING: Rural Residential - There is no time limit to build unless you have an active building permit. Then you have 3 months from the date of permit approval to begin constructionSite Built Homes, Manufactured Homes, Modular Homes and Mobile Homes are allowed as long as it has proper permitting and construction standards.Tiny homes are allowed as long as they are on permanent foundations and are constructed to the Florida Building Code.Camping/RV is not allowed on vacant land without an active building permit.Rv's can be on the property after the building permit is issued and until construction is completed.For more information, please contact Walton County Planning and Development Services with phone no..

Land Use:

Building Information

• Time Limit to Build: None. But you have 3 months from the date of permit approval to begin construction

• Site Built Homes Allowed: Yes, with proper permitting and construction standards

• Modular Homes Allowed: Yes, with proper permitting and construction standards

• Manufactured Homes Allowed: Yes, with proper permitting and construction standards

• Mobile Homes Allowed: Yes, with proper permitting and construction standards

• Tiny Homes Allowed: Yes, as long as they are on permanent foundations and are constructed to the Florida Building Code.

Allowable Uses

• Full-Time RV Living: No

• RV on the property while you build: Yes, after the building permit is issued and until construction is completed.

• Camping in a RV: No

• Camping in a Tent: No

FLOOD Zone: Yes (about 60% of the property is in wetlands)

HOA/POA: No

IMPROVEMENTS: None

ACCESS: There is a platted access but looks like it is not yet built.

WATER: Would be a well, water haul and holding tank or other similar option

SEWER: Would be by Septic

UTILITIES: Power by solar, wind or generator, Phone by cellular, satellite Tv/Internet/Phone