PUBLIC NOTICE
ON JULY 23, 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 5th day of August, 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-083197
Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant, The Estate of Annie Mae Frazier, The Heirs of the Estate of Annie Mae Frazier, The Estate of Carolyn Lawson, The Heirs of the Estate of Carolyn Lawson, Macon-Bibb County Finance Office and Macon-Bibb County County Attorney's Office
Tax Parcel ID No.: O082-0728
Property Address: 482 Petunia Avenue, Macon, Georgia
Record Title vested in: Annie Mae Frazier and Carolyn Lawson
Tax Payer: (Current Taxpayer) Annie Mae Frazier and Carolyn Lawson
Tax Years being foreclosed: 2017-2022
Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (latest year of delinquent taxes): $4,698.72. (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, and being known as Lot 167, Washington Heights as shown by a plat of record in Deed Book AJ, Folio 684, Clerk's Office, Bibb Superior Court. Said Lot 167, Washington Heights, is indicated as a part of Block "X" as shown on Bibb County Tax Maps. Lot 167, Washington Heights, fronts 50.0 feet on the easterly side of Petunia Avenue, extends back with equal width in an easterly direction, a distance of 125.0 feet and is 50.0 feet wide across its rear or easterly line.
This is the same property conveyed to Annie Mae Frazier and Carolyn Lawson in deed dated April 8, 1971, filed for record April 12, 1971, recorded in Deed Book 1119, Page 73, Superior Court Clerk's Office, Bibb County, Georgia deed records.
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Jul 23,30 2025