NOTICE ON SEPTEMBER 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 6th day of November, 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-083733 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant; The Estate of William Taft; The Heirs of the Estate of William Taft Tax Parcel ID No.: M074-0198 Property Address: 1261 W. Fourth Avenue, Macon, GA Record Title vested in: William Taft Tax Payer: William Taft Tax Years being foreclosed: 2017-2023 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (2023): $4,229.91 (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 Vineville District, Bibb County, Georgia, in the Land Lot 116, and more fully described as follows: Commencing at a point on Fourth Avenue, and on the East side thereof (100) One hundred feet South of the New Columbus Road; thence South (25) twenty five feet, and running back between parallel lines at right angles (100) one hundred feet, as shown on a map recorded in Clerk's Office, Bibb Superior Court, in Book 1, Folio 65. Also that lot or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Bibb County, Georgia, located on the New Columbus Heights in Block 15, as shown by plat of said property recorded in Clerk's Office, Bibb Superior Court, in Plat Book 1, page 65. Said lot commencing at a point on Fourth Avenue (125) one hundred and twenty five feet south of New Columbus Road; thence South along said Fourth Avenue (25) twenty five feet, and running back from Fourth Avenue at right angles, and between parallel lines (100) one hundred feet. This is the same property conveyed to William Taft by deed dated April 2, 1920, and recorded in Deed Book 248, Page 520, Bibb County Records. IPL0276842 Oct 22,29 2025