Advertising of Filing of Petition For Judicial In Rem Ad Valorem Tax Foreclosure Under O.C.G.A. 48-4-75, et seq. ON June 23, 2023 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 September, 2025 at 9:30 AM, 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-083204 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant, Estate of A. B. Alford, Heirs of Estate of A. B. Alford, Tommy Hardy, Estate of Fannie Mae Alford, Heirs of Estate of Fannie Mae Alford, L. J. Hardy Tax Parcel ID No.: O082-0698 Property Address: 419 Daffodil Street, Macon, Georgia Record Title vested in: L. J. Hardy, Heirs of A. B. Alford, and Heirs of Fannie Mae Alford Tax Payer: (Current Taxpayer) Heirs of A. B. Alford Tax Years being foreclosed: 2017 through 2023 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (latest year of delinquent taxes): $5,084.65 (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 Godfrey District, Bibb County, Georgia, and being the southwest corner of the one-acre tract conveyed by E. Tris Napier, Jr. and Granville S. Napier to W.P. Perkins by deed dated December 1, 1943, and recorded in Deed Book 513, Folio 183, Clerk's Office, Bibb Superior Court. Said tract COMMENCES on Daffodil Street, (formerly Neal Avenue) where land now or formerly of Perkins joins land now or formerly of Douglas and runs along Daffodil Street (formerly Neal Avenue) in an easterly direction 117 feet to the land now or formerly of Oscar and Derry Simmons; thence at an angle in a northerly direction a distance of 184 feet to an alley in the rear; thence in a westerly direction along said alley 117 feet to land now or formerly of Douglas; thence at right angles and in a southerly direction 176 feet to POINT OF BEGINNING. This is the same property conveyed to A.B. Alford by W.P. Perkins in warranty deed dated July 18, 1945, and recorded in Book 540, Folio 547. Said land is bounded on the south by Daffodil Street, formerly Neal Avenue, on the east by lands now or formerly owned by Simmons and Perkins, on the north by an alley and on the west by lands now or formerly owned by Douglas. Deed Reference: Deed Book 540, Page 547; Deed Book 852, Page 122 and Deed Book 2758, Page 30 IPL0261443 Aug 24,31 2025