MICHAEL CHRISTY

Attorney File #: 25-002875
Notice ID: 1555340
First Publication Date: 3/13/2025
Number of Insertions: 4
Last Publication Date: 4/3/2025
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 APRIL 11, 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 Michael E. Christy, a single man, to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for, Freedom Mortgage Corporation, its successors and assigns, Mortgagee, dated November 14, 2019 and recorded December 10, 2019 in Liber 3258, Page 3391 Berrien County Records, Michigan. Said mortgage is now held by Freedom Mortgage Corporation, by assignment. There is claimed to be due at the date hereof the sum of Eighty-Seven Thousand Twenty-Three and 50/100 Dollars ($87,023.50).
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 APRIL 11, 2025.
Said premises are located in the Township of St. Joseph, Berrien County Michigan, and are described as:
The West Half of Lot(s) 14 of Napier Park, according to the pat thereof recorded in Liber 8 of Plats, Page(s) 68 of Berrien County Records.Also part of the South 44 rods of the Southwest Quarter of Section 25, Town 4 South, Range 19 West, which is described as follows: Commencing at the South Quarter post of said Section 25, thence West along Section Line 280.5 feet, thence North 233 feet to the Southwest corner of said Lot 14, which is the place of beginning of the land herein described, thence North 143 feet to the Northwest corner of said Lot 14, thence North 88° 58′ West 64.14 feet, thence South 0° 43′ East 144.15 feet, thence East 62.56 feet to the place of beginning
542 Montezuma Rd, 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: March 13, 2025
File No. 25-002875
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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