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-083012 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.: N071-0379 Property Address: 3512 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): $9,030.15. (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, Bibb County, Georgia, being known as Lots 8 and 9 in Block A of the J.R. Odom Company Subdivision, according to a plat which appears of record in Plat Book 3, Page 99, Clerk's Office of the Bibb Superior Court. Said plat is incorporated herein by reference thereto for the purpose of a more complete and accurate description. There is excepted from the above-described property that portion of Lots 8 and 9 lying west of the center line of a branch, which portions of said lots were conveyed to Walter J. Hulett by a deed recorded in Deed Book 680, Page 497, said clerk's office. Deed Reference: Deed Book 9583, Page 143 IPL0241617 Jun 25,Jul 2 2025