BARBARA CONKIN

Attorney File #: 24-016559
Notice ID: 1551938
First Publication Date: 2/6/2025
Number of Insertions: 4
Last Publication Date: 2/27/2025
County: Berrien

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Attention homeowner: If you are a military service member on active duty, if your period of active duty has concluded less than 90 days ago, or if you have been ordered to active duty, please contact the attorney for the party foreclosing the mortgage at the telephone number stated in this notice.
Notice of foreclosure by advertisement. Notice is given under section 3212 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.3212, that the following mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the mortgaged premises, or some part of them, at a public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash or cashier’s check at the place of holding the circuit court in Berrien County, starting promptly at 11:00 AM on MARCH 7, 2025. The amount due on the mortgage may be greater on the day of the sale. Placing the highest bid at the sale does not automatically entitle the purchaser to free and clear ownership of the property. A potential purchaser is encouraged to contact the county register of deeds office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge a fee for this information.
Default has been made in the conditions of a mortgage made by Barbara L. Conkin, a single woman and Debora Kay Blanton, a married woman, to Fifth Third Mortgage – MI, LLC, Mortgagee, dated September 21, 2012 and recorded October 3, 2012 in Liber 3010, Page 1214 Berrien County Records, Michigan. Said mortgage is now held by Fifth Third Bank, National Association, by assignment. There is claimed to be due at the date hereof the sum of Sixty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty-Two and 20/100 Dollars ($66,852.20).
Under the power of sale contained in said mortgage and the statute in such case made and provided, notice is hereby given that said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the mortgaged premises, or some part of them, at public venue at the place of holding the circuit court within Berrien County, Michigan at 11:00 AM on MARCH 7, 2025.
Said premises are located in the Township of BENTON, Berrien County Michigan, and are described as:
That part of Lots 14 and 15, Napier-Ogden Subdivision, Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, being a Subdivision of a part of the North Half of the North Half of Section 31, Township 4 South, Range 18 West, according to the Plat thereof, recorded May 22, 1953 in Book 13 of Plats, page 21, described as follows, to-wit:Commencing at a point on the West line of said Lots, that is 23.50 feet South 00 deg. 45′ East from the Northwest corner of said Lot 14; thence South 0 deg. 45′ East, along said West line, 106.31 feet; thence North 81 deg. 21′ East, along a line that is parallel to and 20.00 feet North 08 deg. 39′ West from the South line of said Lot 15, 155.80 feet to the Westerly line of West Ogden Avenue in said Subdivision; thence Northwesterly, along said West Street line and around a 268.60-foot radius curve to the right, 89.50 feet, a chord distance of North 14 deg. 43′ West 89.00 feet to a point that is 20.01 feet South 03 deg. 02′ East from the Northeast corner of said Lot 15; thence South 88 deg. 29′ West 133.00 feet to the place of beginning. AND ALSO Lot Nine (9) “NEWMAN TERRACE”, being a Subdivision in part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 31, Township 4 South, Range 18 West, Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, according to the Plat thereof, recorded September 23, 1965 in Book 20 of Plats, page 35.
1880 W Ogden Cir, Benton Harbor, Michigan 49022
The redemption period shall be 6 months from the date of such sale, unless determined abandoned in accordance with MCLA §600.3241a, in which case the redemption period shall be 30 days from the date of such sale.
If the property is sold at foreclosure sale, pursuant to MCL 600.3278, the borrower will be held responsible to the person who buys the property at the mortgage foreclosure sale or to the mortgage holder for damage to the property during the redemption period.
Dated: February 6, 2025
File No. 24-016559
Firm Name: Orlans Law Group PLLC
Firm Address: 1650 West Big Beaver Road, Troy MI 48084
Firm Phone Number: (248) 502.1400

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