ON MAY 19, 2025, A PETITION, TOGETHER WITH ACCOMPANYING RULE NISI, NOTICE TO RESPONDENTS AND INTERESTED PARTIES, AND LIS PENDENS, WAS FILED IN Bibb County Superior Court seeking foreclosure of the ad valorem tax lien(s) for the year(s) shown below: This Petition serves as notice to the Respondent(s) and all Interested Parties that (1) each party is presumed to own or have a legal interest in one or more of the Subject Properties, (2) that foreclosure proceedings have been commenced because of the failure to pay the real property taxes cited above, and (3) foreclosure will result in the loss of ownership of the Properties and all rights or interests of all Interested Parties. To avoid loss of ownership or any interest in the Property, payment of the full amount of taxes, penalties, interest, and costs must be paid to the Petitioner's office located at 188 Third Street, Macon, Georgia 31201 prior to any Court-ordered sale of the Property. An owner of the Property may redeem the Property within 60 days after the sale date by paying the full amount of taxes, penalties, interest and costs to the Bibb County Superior Court. A hearing on the above matter shall take place on the 10th day of July, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., Courtroom C, at the Bibb County Courthouse, 601 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201. The petition was filed by Samuel Wade McCord Macon-Bibb County Tax Commissioner. For further information, contact the Tax Commissioner's counsel of record's office at (478) 336-5500, or at James Bates Brannan Groover, LLP, 231 Riverside Drive, Suite 100, Macon, Georgia 31201. Civil Action No.: 2025-CV-083010 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant and David Kitchens Tax Parcel ID No.: N071-0196 Property Address: 3884 Atlantic Avenue, Macon, Georgia Record Title vested in: David Kitchens Tax Payer: (Current Taxpayer) David Kitchens Tax Years being foreclosed: 2016-2022 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (latest year of delinquent taxes): $9,781.39. (Opening Bid/Total Amount Owed including principal, penalties, interest and legal fees) Legal Description: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in Land Lot 336 of the 13th Land District of Bibb County, Georgia more particularly described as the east half of Lots 5 and 6, containing 0.16 acres on that certain plat of survey prepared for Tammy Vaught by McDougald & Associates, dated July 22, 1999, and recorded in Plat Book 89, Page 606, Clerk's Office, Bibb Superior Court. This is the same property conveyed to David Kitchens in Warranty Deed dated February 23, 2016, filed for record March 1, 2016, in Deed Book 9639, Page 45, Superior Court Clerk's Office, Bibb County, Georgia deed records. IPL0241604 Jun 25,Jul 2 2025