Walczak Table 5 · 2028 backfill model
Is it worth buying a rental in these I-4 cities?
Worth depends on rent versus holding cost on a specific parcel. These pages do not declare a buy. They publish the cited Amendment 3 tax-shift figures — and millage where the county sheet printed a city total.
· · Figures retrieved 2026-10-18 · Lake County and Volusia County have no city in Table 5.
| City | County | Apartment | SFR rental | City mills in our files? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa | Hillsborough | $758 (18.88%) | $1,329 (17.82%) | 19.8428 |
| St. Petersburg | Pinellas | $651 (19.9%) | $1,282 (18.45%) | Not in the county sheet extract — see county page |
| Orlando | Orange | $358 (11.84%) | $936 (10.84%) | 19.0878 |
| Winter Park | Orange | $368 (11.88%) | $1,572 (11.05%) | Not in the county sheet extract — see county page |
| Lakeland | Polk | $381 (18.38%) | $820 (20.24%) | 17.5402 |
| Bartow | Polk | $358 (22.62%) | $908 (24.85%) | 18.2159 |
| St. Cloud | Osceola | $488 (25.92%) | $1,979 (29.82%) | 17.8989 |
| Oviedo | Seminole | $1,070 (29.64%) | $2,214 (29.78%) | 16.7784 |
| Sanford | Seminole | $502 (21.68%) | $1,106 (20.75%) | 18.1284 |
| Palm Bay | Brevard | $499 (27.3%) | $1,412 (31.19%) | Not in the county sheet extract — see county page |