PUBLIC NOTICE ON JUNE 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-083188 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant, The Estate of James O. Taylor, The Heirs of the Estate of James O. Taylor, The Estate of Jimetta S. Taylor, The Heirs of the Estate of Jimetta S. Taylor, Midland Funding, LLC, Midland Credit Management, Inc., and Lloyd & McDaniel PLC, f/k/a Cooling & Winter, LLC Tax Parcel ID No.: O082-0708 Property Address: 345 Pansy Avenue, Macon, Georgia Record Title vested in: James O. Taylor and Heirs of Jimetta S. Taylor Tax Payer: (Current Taxpayer) James O. Taylor and Heirs of Jimetta S. Taylor Tax Years being foreclosed: 2017-2022 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (latest year of delinquent taxes): $10,904.70. (Opening Bid/Total Amount Owed including principal, penalties, interest and legal fees) Legal Description: All that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Godfrey District of Bibb County, Georgia, on the western side of Pansy Avenue, and being the homeplace of Henrietta Simmons where she resided at the time of her death and formerly known as 120 First Avenue, but now known as 345 Pansy Avenue. This lot is and has been under fence and fronts on Pansy Avenue 125 feet, more or less, and extends back with an even width a distance of 150 feet, more or less, to a ditch, and is bounded on the north by Mosley Avenue or Street, on the south by lot now or formerly owned by Eliza Dunn, and is the same property described in a deed recorded in the Clerk's Office of Bibb Superior Court in Book 455, Folio 169, and contains one-half acre, more or less. This is the same property conveyed in deed to Henrietta Simmons, dated September 12, 1960, filed for record September 13, 1960, in Deed Book 831, Page 455, Superior Court Clerk's Office, Bibb County, Georgia deed records. IPL0254684 Jul 23,30 2025