DARRELL & WANDA GREGORY

NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE THIS FIRM IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION WE OBTAIN WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. MORTGAGE SALE: Default having been made in the conditions of certain Mortgage made by Darrell W. Gregory, and Wanda Gregory, a married couple of 5264 Amy Drive, Coloma, Michigan 49038 to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, acting through Rural Development, United States Department of Agriculture, with its Office being located at 4300 Goodfellow Blvd., Building 105, FC-215, St. Louis, MO, 63120, the Mortgagee, the Mortgage being dated September 22, 2000, and recorded October 3, 2000, in Liber 2081, Pages 256-262 in Berrien County Records, and such Mortgage being given to secure Promissory Note payable to the Government, and by reason of such default the Mortgagee elects to declare the entire unpaid amount of such Mortgage due and payable forthwith, on which Mortgage there is claimed to be due as of July 5, 2018, for principal, interest and other charges, the sum of Eighty-Nine Thousand Five Hundred Twenty-Nine and 46/100 ($89,529.46) Dollars, and no proceedings having been instituted at law or equity to recover the debt now remaining secured by said Mortgage, or any part thereof, whereby the power of sale contained in said Mortgage has become operative; Now, Therefore, Notice is Hereby Given that by virtue of the power of sale contained in said Mortgage and in pursuance of the statute of the State of Michigan in such case made and provided, the said Mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises therein described, or so much thereof as may be necessary, at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the County Courthouse at 811 Port Street, in the City of St. Joseph, County of Berrien, Michigan, that being the place of holding the Circuit Court in and for said County, on Thursday, August, 9, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., local time, and said premises will be sold to pay the amount due as aforesaid on the Mortgage together with 7.375% interest, legal costs, attorneys’ fees and also any taxes and insurance that said Mortgagee does pay on or prior to the date of said sale; which said premises described in said Mortgage are situated in the State of Michigan, Berrien County and are described as: Part of the Southwest fractional one-quarter of section 31, township 3 south, range 17 west, described as follows: commencing at the south quarter post of said section 31; thence north 89 degrees 44 minutes 20 seconds west, along the south line of the southwest fractional one-quarter of said section 31, 290.40 feet; thence north 00 degrees 27 minutes 50 seconds west, parallel with the north and south quarter line of said section 31, 409.72 feet, to the point of beginning of the parcel of land herein described; thence south 89 degrees 32 minutes 10 seconds west 219.98 feet; thence north 00 degrees 27 minutes 50 seconds west, parallel with said north and south quarter line, 328.03 feet, to the southerly line of hi-ers country subdivision no.1, according to the plat thereof, recorded November 2, 1972 in liber 22 of plats, on page 23, being the point of intersection with a non-tangent curve to the right, said curve having a radius of 437.36 feet (recorded as 437.32 feet) and a central angle of 16 degrees 27 minutes 14 seconds; thence northeasterly, along said southerly line and the arc of said curve to the right 125.60 feet, to a point of tangency, said arc subtended by a chord bearing north 81 degrees 53 minutes 17 seconds east 125.17 feet; thence south 89 degrees 53 minutes 06 seconds east (recorded as south 89 degrees 54 minutes 10 seconds east), along said southerly line, 40.33 feet to the northwest corner of the east one acre of the north four acres of the south 24 acres of the east 84 acres of said southwest fractional one-quarter; thence south 00 degrees 27 minutes 50 seconds east, along the west line of said east 1 acre, 125.66 feet, to the southwest corner of said east 1 acre; thence south 89 degrees 53 minutes 06 seconds east, along the south line of said east 1 acre; thence south 89 degrees 53 minutes 06 seconds east, along the south line of said east 1 acre 55.60 feet; thence south 00 degrees 27 minutes 50 seconds east, parallel with said north and south line, 218.60 feet, to the point of beginning. During the six (6) months immediately following the sale, the property may be redeemed unless the property is abandoned, in which case the redemption period shall expire thirty (30) days from the date of sale. According to MCL §600.3278, if the property is sold at a foreclosure sale, the borrower will be held responsible to the person who buys the property at the mortgage foreclosure sale or to the mortgage holder for damaging the property during the redemption period. For further information with regard to this foreclosure, contact USDA – Rural Development, Centralized Servicing Center, Foreclosure Centralization Initiative, 4300 Goodfellow Blvd., Building 105, FC-215, St. Louis, MO, 63120, telephone (800) 349-5097 ext. 4500. Dated: July 5, 2018 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, acting through the Farmers Home Administration (now Rural Development), United States Department of Agriculture, Mortgagee Michael I. Conlon (P43954) Running, Wise, Ford, P.L.C. 326 E. State Street, P.O. Box 686 Traverse City, MI 49685-0686

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