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-083011 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant, Aaron B. Keene, J. Ellsworth Hall, IV, Hall Block Garland & Meyer, c/o Catherine P. Truemper, Truist Bank, Inc., Corporation Service Company c/o Truist Bank, Inc., and Thomas M. Greene, Spivey, Pope, Green & Greer, LLC c/o Branch Banking & Trust Company Tax Parcel ID No.: N071-0377 Property Address: 3508 Napier Avenue, Macon, Georgia Record Title vested in: Aaron B. Keene Tax Payer: (Current Taxpayer) Aaron B. Keene Tax Years being foreclosed: 2016-2022 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (2022): $4,663.49. (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 the City of Macon, County of Bibb, and State of Georgia, and being known as Lots 6 and 7, in Block "A", of a subdivision of the Malone Property, as shown on a plat of said subdivision of record in Plat Book 3, Folio 99, of the Clerk's Office of Bibb Superior Court, and retraced in Plat Book 8, Folio 56, of the Clerk's Office. Said Lots 6 and 7 having a total frontage on Napier Avenue (formerly called Log Cabin Boulevard and Bellevue Avenue) of 106.2 feet and extends back in a westerly direction; the northerly line of said Lot 7 being 295.1 feet, and the southerly line of Lot 6 being 308.7 feet long and the rear or westerly line of said lots being 101.8 feet long. This is the same property conveyed to Aaron B. Keene from Clyde L. Hoffman in deed dated July 30, 2015, filed for record November 20, 2015, in Deed Book 9583, Page 159, Superior Court Clerk's Office, Bibb County, Georgia deed records. IPL0241611 Jun 25,Jul 2 2025