DEBORAH SMITH

Attorney File #: 24-002066
Notice ID: 1525239
First Publication Date: 3/14/2024
Number of Insertions: 4
Last Publication Date: 4/4/2024
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 APRIL 12, 2024. 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 Deborah J. Smith, unmarried woman, to Fifth Third Mortgage Company, Mortgagee, dated December 24, 2018 and recorded February 21, 2019 in Liber 1151, Page 860 Berrien County Records, Michigan. Said Mortgage is now held by Fifth Third Bank, N.A. as Successor by merger to Fifth Third Mortgage Company. There is claimed to be due at the date hereof the sum of Thirteen Thousand One Hundred Sixty-Seven and 62/100 Dollars ($13,167.62).
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 vendue at the place of holding the circuit court within Berrien County, Michigan at 11:00 AM on APRIL 12, 2024.
Said premises are located in the Township of Howard, Berrien County Michigan, and are described as:
Part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 28 Town 7 South Range 16 West, described as: From the East Quarter corner of said Section 28, measure North, along the East line of said Section, 773 feet to the Point of Beginning of the land herein described; thence West 330 feet; thence North 150 feet; thence East 330 feet to the East line of said Section; thence South along said East line 150 feet to the Point of Beginning.
1112 Leet Rd, Niles, Michigan 49120
The redemption period shall be 12 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: March 14, 2024
File No. 24-002066
Firm Name: Orlans PC
Firm Address: 1650 West Big Beaver Road, Troy MI 48084
Firm Phone Number: (248) 502.1400

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