Bibb County Foreclosure ON JULY 28, 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 September, 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-083433 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant; Betty Jean Cook Tax Parcel ID No.: O082-0180 Property Address: 240 Pansy Avenue, Macon, GA Record Title vested in: Betty Jean Cook Tax Payer: Betty Jean Cook Tax Years being foreclosed: 2017-2023 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (2023): $3,966.32 (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 County of Bibb and State of Georgia, and being known as Lot No. 45, according to plat of Washington Heights of record in the Office of the Clerk of Bibb Superior Court in Book AJ, Folio 684, said lot is more particularly described as BEGINNING at a point on the east side of First Avenue at the intersection of Hodge Street and at the north line of Hodge Street, and from said point extending north along the east side of First Avenue a distance of fifty (50) feet; thence at right angles east a distance of one hundred (100) feet; thence at right angles south a distance of fifty (50) feet to the north side of Hodge Street; thence at right angles west along the north side of Hodge Street a distance of one hundred (100) feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING. This is the same property conveyed to Betty Jean Cook in deed dated September 8, 2010, filed for record September 10, 2010, in Deed Book 8363, Page 217, Superior Court Clerk's Office, Bibb County, Georgia deed records. IPL0261497 Aug 24,31 2025