KARRIE BELL

Attorney File #: 25-009967
Notice ID: 1569766
First Publication Date: 8/21/2025
Number of Insertions: 4
Last Publication Date: 9/11/2025
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 SEPTEMBER 19, 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 Demetrius D. Bell and Karrie Bell, husband and wife, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., Mortgagee, dated January 18, 2002 and recorded February 4, 2002 in Liber 2218, Page 1773 and Affidavit Affecting Realty recorded on August 11, 2025, in Liber 3457, Page 1167, Berrien County Records, Michigan. Said mortgage is now held by BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., by assignment. There is claimed to be due at the date hereof the sum of One Hundred Forty-Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty-Three and 77/100 Dollars ($147,853.77).
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 SEPTEMBER 19, 2025.
Said premises are located in the Township of Benton, Berrien County Michigan, and are described as:
LOTS 11 AND 12, MIDWAY SUBDIVISION, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED MAY 2, 1946 IN LIBER 11 OF PLATS, PAGE 36.
612 N Crystal Ave, 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: August 21, 2025
File No. 25-009967
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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