Highlands County, FL — In-State Absentee Vacant Residential Lots

Description

Vacant residential lots in the mid-century plats around Sebring, Avon Park, and Lake Placid — Sun 'N Lake, Placid Lakes, Sebring Hills — whose owners carry a Florida mailing address away from the lot, sourced from the FL DOR public assessment rolls. The filter is vacant-residential use codes only, so every record is an unbuilt lot, not a rental or a homestead. In-state owners are easy to reach by phone, and many are a generation removed from the original installment purchase.

Best use case

Call-and-mail campaigns into legacy lot subdivisions where in-state owners answer the phone.

Included fields

• Owner name
• Mailing address
• City/State/ZIP
• County
• Parcel ID
• Acreage
• Land use code
• Situs address

Exclusions

Deduplicated to one record per owner name and mailing address — owners holding multiple parcels appear once, so the count reflects mailable owners rather than raw parcels.

Caveats

Buildability varies by subdivision — some units lack water/sewer and a few carry scrub-jay habitat review requirements.

Due diligence notes

Verify ownership, back taxes, legal and physical access, flood zone, wetlands coverage, and zoning independently before mailing offers or contracting.

Sample outreach angle

“Your family's Highlands County lot has sat empty for years — we buy lots like it for cash, closing costs on us.”