A Quiet Hold Near Defuniak Springs

Land Description

Owner Financing:

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

- $2000 down $595/Mo for 72 months (plus prorated taxes and a $12/Mo note maintenance fee)

A Wooded Hold Forty Minutes North of the Gulf

Step onto this parcel off Mill Creek Drive and the first thing that surprises you is the quiet, given how close you are to the busiest stretch of coast in Florida. The ground is sandy underfoot, the pines are thin enough to walk between without much thinking, and the land rises gently west to east. It's the kind of wooded Florida that exists ten miles inland from the postcard and doesn't get photographed much.

DeFuniak Springs sits just to the north. It's a quiet chautauqua town built in 1885 around Lake DeFuniak, one of only two naturally perfectly round lakes in the world. The whole downtown was laid out as a ring road to match it, and the chautauqua auditorium still holds summer lectures the way it did when steam trains brought New Yorkers down for the season. Ponce de Leon Springs sits 27 miles east, the Air Force Armament Museum is 31 miles south, and the 30A beaches are about 40 minutes down the road once you've pointed the truck toward the Gulf.

Now the honest dirt. Access takes a minute to sort out. The most practical route is Watson Road toward Knight Terrace, which is how the neighbors get in. There's also a private road that threads between Mill Creek Drive and Watson Road, and a footpath south toward Prince Lane if you're walking it. Cell service runs about one bar on the parcel, so plan on a hotspot or Starlink if you work remote. Power doesn't run to the lot, but the neighbors to the west pull service off Mill Creek Drive, so a run is plausible with a plan and a power company conversation. One small note for the record: loose dogs turn up in this area from time to time, so walk the parcel with a stick and a friendly voice. There's a small hunting cabin on a nearby lot, which is as neighborly as this stretch gets.

Florida's inland pockets don't make the brochures. They just sit there, quiet and sandy and unhurried, while the coast fills in around them. A piece of that is worth owning while it's still the kind of place you have to explain to your friends.

Subdivision: Oakwood Hills Unit Iv

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

State: Fl

COUNTY: Walton County, Fl

Zip: 32433

Size: 1.848 acres

LOT Dimensions: 146 feet (Northern Leg) x 815 feet (Eastern Leg) x 219 feet (Southern Leg) x 942 feet (Western Leg)

Apn: 073N0060

Legal Description: Lot(s) 6, Block 20 Oakwood Hills Unit IV, a subdivision in Section 7, Township 3N, Range 20W, according to map filed in Plat Book 4, Page 13, of the Public Records of Walton County, Florida.

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Lat/Long Coordinates:

Nw: 30.768935, -86.290802

Ne: 30.768929, -86.290346

Sw: 30.766362, -86.290828

Se: 30.766703, -86.290252

Additional Coordinates:

ELEVATION: 198 feet

ANNUAL Taxes: Approx. $145 per year

ZONING: Rural Residential - There is no time limit to build unless you have an active building permit. Then ou 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.The minimum setbacks are as follows: Front Yard 20-feet. Rear Yard 15-feet. Side Yards 7.5-Feet.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: No

HOA/POA: No online information found for the HOA/Poa for Oakwood Hills

IMPROVEMENTS: None

ACCESS: There is a platted road to the North of the property and looks like it can be extended to the front of the property.

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