NOTICE ON NOVEMBER 19, 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 January, 2026 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-084072 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant; Blaise Blay-Mockey Tax Parcel ID No.: P081-0335 Property Address: 2514 Montpelier Avenue, Macon, GA Record Title vested in: Blaise Blay-Mockey Tax Payer: Blaise Blay-Mockey Tax Years being foreclosed: 2018-2023 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (2023): $9,559.42 (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, Godfrey District, Bibb County, Georgia, and more particularly described as follows: COMMENCING at the corner of the property now or formerly owned by F.T. Abel, Jr. and running northeast along the south side of Montpelier Avenue, formerly Columbus Road, toward Madden Avenue a distance of 56 feet; thence at right angles or nearly so and extending back in a southerly direction an even width a distance of 200 feet; thence in a westerly direction a distance of 56 feet along a line parallel with Montpelier Avenue to property now or formerly owned by F.T. Abel, Jr., thence in a northerly direction along the property line of said Abel property a distance of 200 feet to Montpelier Avenue and the POINT OF BEGINNING; said lot fronting 56 feet on Montpelier Avenue and being known under the present system of numbering as 2514 Montpelier Avenue, Macon, Georgia. ALSO conveyed hereby, but without warranty of title, is a tract of land adjoining the rear line of the above-described property and measuring 51 feet in width and 42 feet in depth, and shown on a plat prepared by Robert W. Hurley, III. This is the same property conveyed to Blaise Blay-Mockey in deed dated April 21, 2003, filed for record April 29, 2003, in Deed Book 5735, Page 141, Superior Court Clerk's Office, Bibb County, Georgia deed records. IPL0295769 Dec 17,24 2025