HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-1155IN RE: UPSET TAX SALE HELD
DECEMBER 12, 2011
BY THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY
TAX CLAIM BUREAU
PROPERTY OF:
ROLLACE E. HEUSTESS
BARBARA A. HEUSTESS
TAX PARCEL NO.:
18-23-0565-049
28 & 30 N. Market Street
Mechanicsburg Boro.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA
NO. 2012 -
PETITION FOR RULE FOR JUDICIAL SALE
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AND NOW, comes the Cumberland County Tax Claim Bureau, by its attorney,
Stephen D. Tiley, Esquire, Assistant Cumberland County Solicitor, and files this Petition
for Rule for Judicial Sale, of which the following is a statement:
1. Your Petitioner is the County of Cumberland through its Tax Claim
Bureau, a Bureau created by the Real Estate Tax Sale Law. 72 P.S.
§5860.101, et sic.
2. Pursuant to 72 P.S. §5860.610, your Petitioner respectfully represents
as follows:
a. Tax claim upon which the property was exposed for sale: 2009 and
2010 Cumberland County, Library and Mechanicsburg Borough real
estate taxes. 2009-10 and 2010-11 Mechanicsburg Area School
District real estate taxes. Total amount of claim, including penalty,
interest, and cost as of date of tax sale: $12,174.89.
b. Neither the owner, his, her, their, or its heirs, successors, assigns, or
legal representatives, or any lien creditor, or his, her, their or its
heirs, successors or legal representatives, or any other person
interested, has caused stay of sale, discharge of tax claim or
removal from tax sale.
c. The property was exposed to public sale pursuant to 72 P.S.
§5860.601 on: December 12, 2011.
Petition for Judicial Sale (Parcel No. 18-23-0565-049) Page 1
d. Before exposing the property to public sale the Bureau fixed
the upset sale price, pursuant to 27 P.S. §5860.605, which upset
price was $20,966.69.
e. Your Petitioner, the Bureau, was unable to obtain a bid at the public
sale sufficient to pay the said upset price.
3. Attached hereto, marked Exhibit "A," and incorporated herein by
reference as is fully set forth herein, is a copy of a title report received
from a title searcher retained by the Bureau together with a reduced
copy of the most recent deed for the subject premises, as of the date of
the search. The tax parcel number of the property is 18-23-0565-049.
The property is situate in the Borough of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania and is known as, 28 & 30 N. Market Street.
4. The names and addresses of known parties holding tax and municipal
claims, liens, mortgages, ground rents, charges and estates against the
property are as follows:
a. Cumberland County Tax Claim Bureau
One Courthouse Square
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
Delinquent taxes payable through February 29, 2012: $18,337.73
(Includes 2009, 2010 and 2011 county/municipal real estate taxes
and 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 School real estate taxes).
b. Mechanicsburg Borough, Tax Collector
Barry Heckard
605 Somerset Drive
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
2012 County and Municipal estimated real estate taxes at discount
in the amount of $1,454.93.
c. Mechanicsburg Borough
36 W Allen Street
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Mechanicsburg Borough is the taxing authority of all delinquent
municipal real estate taxes collected by the Tax Claim Bureau and
current taxes collected by Barry Heckard.
Petition for Judicial Sale (Parcel No. 18-23-0565-049) Page 2
d. Mechanicsburg Area School District
100 E. Elmwood Ave
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Mechanicsburg Area School District is the taxing authority of all
delinquent school real estate taxes collected by the Tax Claim
Bureau and current taxes collected by Barry Heckard.
e. Members 1St Federal Credit Union
5000 Louise Drive
Mechanicsburg PA 17055
Mortgage recorded May 10, 2006 in Mortgage Book 1950, Page
649, in the amount of $200,000.00.
Assignment of Rents re above Mortgage recorded May 10, 2006 in
Misc Book 726, Page 4607.
f. Mechanicsburg Borough
36 W. Allen Street
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Water and Sewer amounts due- $986.02, $892.63, and $1,374.14.
Judgment 2010-01941 filed March 19, 2010 in the amount
$1,221.07
Judgment 2010-07672 filed December 14, 2010 in the amount of
$740.30
Judgment 2011-06789 filed August 29, 2011 in the amount of
$830.50
g. Jonestown Bank & Trust
2 W Market Street
Jonestown, PA 17038
Attn: Susan Reiner
Judgment 2011-01476 filed February 8, 2011 in the amount of
$3,720.10
Petition for Judicial Sale (Parcel No. 18-23-0565-049) Page 3
5. The last known address of the owner of the property as set forth in the
assessment records of Cumberland County is: Rollace E Heustess &
Barbara A Heustess, 237 Ridge Hill Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050.
Certified correspondence sent to said address has been returned as
"unclaimed" but regular U.S. mail was not returned.
WHEREFORE, Your Petitioner prays your Honorable Court to grant a rule upon
all interested parties, including those listed at paragraphs four and five of the within
Petition, to show cause why a decree should not be made that the property be sold,
freed and cleared of tax and municipal claims, liens, mortgages, charges and estates,
except separately taxed ground rents, pursuant to Section 612 of the Real Estate Tax
Sale Law. 72 P.S. §5860.612(a).
Respectfully submitted,
Date: i;2
Stephen D. Tiley, Esquire
Assistant Cumberland County Solicitor
5 South Hanover Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
(717) 243-5838
Attorney I.D. # 32318
Petition for Judicial Sale (Parcel No. 18-23-0565-049) Page 4
VERIFICATION
I, Melissa F. Mixell, Tax Claim Bureau Director, depose and say that the facts set
forth in the foregoing Petition for Rule for Judicial Sale are true and correct based partly
upon personal knowledge and the remainder upon information and belief; I understand
that this Verification is made subject to the penalties of 18 Pa. C.S. §4904, relating to
unsworn falsification to authorities.
Dated: Z012
Melia F. Mixell, D?rector
Cumberland County Tax Claim Bureau
One Courthouse Square
Carlisle, PA 1701
(717) 240-6366
Petition for Judicial Sale (Parcel No. 18-23-0565-049) Page 5
HARVEY P. MURRAY, JR., P.O. BOX 11, SELINSGROVE, PA 17870
HOME FAX: 570-374-4761 HOME PHONE: 570-374-5400
CUMBERLAND, PERRY, JUNIATA, SNYDER, UNION & NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTIES
PERRY COUNTY COURT HOUSE (usually there about 12:30 p.m. until 4 p.m.)
PHONE: 717-582-3504 FAX: FAX TO HOME FAX: 570-374-4761
CAN LEAVE BRIEF MESSAGES WITH SEARCHERS AT PERRY COURT HOUSE.
PREFER THAT ALL APPLICATIONS BE FAXED. SEARCHING SINCE 1965
AFFILIATED WITH CORNERSTONE LAND TRANSFER, INC., MECHANICSBURG, PA - TITLE INS.
FOR:
CUMBERLAND COUNTY TAX CLAIM BUREAU
ORDER #: MelissaMixell
OWNER TO
BE SEARCHED: Rollace E. Heustess and Barbara A. Heustess,h/w
PREMISES: Cumberland County, Borough of Mechanicsburg
28 & 30 North Market Street
GRANTOR (S):
Danny A. Cooper and Linda K.Cooper, his wife
GRANTEE (S):
Rollace E. Heustess and Barbara A. 1eustess, his wife
DATE OF DEED: May 9, 2006
RECORDED: May 10, 2006
DEED BOOK: Deed Book 274,Page 2313
CONSIDERATION: $254,000.00
COVER DATE: /Z
January *, 2012
PURPOSE: PRESENT OWNER LIEN SEARCH (from actual consideration)
MORTGAGE (S):
$200,000.00; Rollace E. Heustess and Barbara A. Heustess
TO:Members 1st Federal Credit Union; dated May 8,2006;
recorded May 10, 2006 in Mortgage Book 1950,Page 649.
closed-ended; not assigned.
Assignemnt of Rents re above recorded May 10,2006 in
Misc. Book 726, Page 4607.
JUDGMENT-(S): 2"993
2010-1941
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FEDERAL TAX LIEN
10-7672
TAX CLAIM BUREAU: NO FEDERAL TAX LIENS
TAX CLAIM:
SECURED TRANSACMIDKSAIM: 2009: 6,336.16
(Recorder's Office - Liens):
None
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2010: 5,941.89
ASSESSMENT: TAX PARCEL # 18-23-0565-049 land: 60,000
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DATE: Januaray JF, 2012
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Tax Parcel Number: 19-s 3-0566-OAAq
THIS INDENTURE
MADE THE ?94t day of in the year of our Lord two
thousand and six (2006).
BETWEEN
DANNY A. COOPER and LINDA IC COOPER, his wife, of Mechanicsburg,
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Grantor,
and
ROLLACE E. HEUSTESS and BARBARA A. HEUSTESS, his wife, of Silver Spring
Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Grantees.
WITNESSETH, that in consideration of the sum of TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR
THOUSAND and N01100 (S2S4,000.00) DOLLARS, in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged, the said Grantors do hereby grant and convey to the said Grantees, their heirs and assigns:
ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land situate on the East side of North Market Street, in the Third
Ward of the Borough of Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, more particularly bounded
and described as follows:
BEGINNING at the northeast comer of Market Street and Strawberry Alley; thence North along
the eastern line of Market Street, sixty-seven and one-tenth (67.1) feet to a point at comer of lands now or
formerly owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; thence along the same, North 70 degrees 20
minutes East, one hundred fifty-three (153) feet to a post at the corner of lands now or formerly of the
said Pennsylvania Railroad Company and lands now or formerly of John S. Davis; thence along lands
now or formerly of the said John S Davis, South 19 degrees 36 minutes East, thirty and one-tenth (30.1)
feet to a point on the line of property now or formerly of Harold Stone; thence along the same, South 70
degrees 20 minutes West, twenty-nine and one-tenth (29.1) feet to a point marked by a nail on the line of
property now or formerly of Harold Stone; thence by the same in a southwardly direction, thirty-seven
(37) feet to an iron pin in the northern line of Strawberry Alley; thence along said northern line of
Strawberry Alley in a westwardly direction, one hundred twenty-three and nine-tenths (123.9) feet to a
point, the place of BEGINNING.
HAVING thereon erected building known and numbered as 28 and 30 North Market Street,
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, with the adjacent parking areas to the North and East thereof.
TOGETHER with and subject to easements and restrictions of record.
BEING the same premises which William G. Magaro and Gayle A. Magaro, his wife, by their
deed dated December 31, 1986 and recorded in the Recorder's Office in and for Cumberland County in
Deed Book K Volume 32, Page 1051, granted and conveyed to Danny A. Cooper and Linda K. Cooper,
his wife, the Grantors herein.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said messuage or tenement and tract of land, hereditaments and
premises hereby granted and released, or mentioned and intended so to be, with the appurtenances, unto
the said Grantees, their heirs and assigns, to and for the only proper use and behoof of the said Grantees,
their heirs and assigns, forever.
THIS CONVEYANCE IS PART OF A DEFERRED TAX-FREE EXCHANGE OF LIKE-KIND
PROPERTY BY THE GRANTEES UNDER SECTION 1031 OF THE U.S. INTERNAL
REVENUE CODE OF 1986.
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AND, the said Grantors hereby covenant and agree that they will warrant specially the property
hereby conveyed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Grantors have hereunto set their hands and seals
the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered
in the presence ?of:
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Cumberland Carat: Recorder of Deeds
Instrument Filing
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Remarks: TRIOCOUNTT ABSTRACT
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DEED 11.50
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DEED - RTT STATE 7540.00
NEDMICSBUR6 1270.00
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA )
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND
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On this, the 144 _ day of A.D. 2006, before me a notary
public, in and for the Commonwealth of Penns ania, personally appeared DANNY A.
COOPER and LINDA K. COOPER, known to me (or satisfactorily proven) to be the persons
whose names are subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged that they executed the
same for the purposes therein contained.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand an official seal.
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IN RE: UPSET TAX SALE HELD
DECEMBER 12, 2011
BY THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY
TAX CLAIM BUREAU
PROPERTY OF:
ROLLACE E. HEUSTESS
BARBARA A. HEUSTESS
TAX PARCEL NO.:
18-23-0565-049
28 & 30 N. Market Street
Mechanicsburg Boro.
RULE TO SHOW CAUSE
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AND NOW, this /,?,t day of /"?? 2012 upon consideration of the within
Petition, a Rule to Show Cause is issued upon all interested parties to appear and show
cause why a decree should not be made that the property which is the subject of the
within Petition be sold freed and cleared of all tax and municipal claims, liens,
mortgages, charges and estates, except separately taxed ground rents. Service of this
Rule shall be made to all parties listed at paragraphs four and five of the within Petition
in the manner provided by Section 611 of the Real Estate Tax Sale Law 72 P.S.
§5860.611.
This is not a summons, you are not required to appear before the court, however
you must appear if you desire to preserve your right to any interest or value in the real
estate which is the subject of this proceeding. If you do not appear you may lose any
ownership interest in the property or any right to any lien or other security interest in the
property.
Rule returnable 2012 at L3 A.M. I P44. in Courtroom
Number at Cumberland County Courthouse, One Courthouse Square, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA
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SHERIFF'S OFFICE OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY
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Sheriff
Jody S Smith ., ,
Chief Deputy; _
Richard W Stewart
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Cumberland County 'Tax Claim Bureau
vs. Case Number
Rollace E Heustess (et al.) 2012-1155
SHERIFF'S RETURN OF SERVICE
03/06/2012 Ronny R. Anderson, Sheriff, being duly sworn according to law, states he made diligent search and
inquiry for the within named Lien holder to wit: Jonestown Bank & Trust, but was unable to locate it in his
bailiwick. The Sheriff therefore deputizes the Sheriff of Lancaster, Pennsylvania to serve the within Rule to
Show Cause according to law.
03/07/2012 01:45 PM - Jason Vioral, Deputy Sheriff, who being duly sworn according to law, states that on March 7,
2012 at 1.345 hours, he served a true copy of the within Rule to Show Cause In Re: Upset Tax Sale Held
December 12, 2011 by the Cumberland County Tax Claim Bureau upon the within named lien holder, to
wit: Cumberland County Tax Claim Bureau, by making known unto Jennifer Cease, Adult in Charge, at 1
Courthouse Square, Room 106, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 17013 its contents and at the
same time handing to her personally the said true and correct copy of the same.
03/14/2012 12:20 PM - Deputy Tim Black, being duly sworn according to law, served the requested Rule to Show
Cause by handing a true copy to a person representing themselves to be Christina M Bender, Secretary,
who accepted as "Adult Person in Charge" for Members 1 st FCU at 5000 Louise Drive, Lower Allen
Township, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055.
03/14/2012 11:09 AM - Deputy Tim Black, being duly sworn according to law, served the requested Rule to Show
Cause by handing a true copy to a person representing themselves to be Ashely Warzynski, Secretary,
who accepted as "Adult Person in Charge" for Mechanicsburg Area School District at 100 E Elmwood
Avenue, Mechanicsburg Borough, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055.
03/14/2012 10:40 AM - Deputy Tim Black, being duly sworn according to law, served the requested Rule to Show
Cause by handing a true copy to a person representing themselves to be Leslie Hocker, Secretary, who
accepted as "Adult Person in Charge" for Mechanicsburg Borough at 36 W Allen Street, Mechanicsburg
Borough, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055.
03/14/2012 11:18 AM - Tim Black, Deputy, who being duly sworn according to law, states that on March 14, 2012 at
11:18 AM hours, he served a true copy of the within Rule to Show Cause upon the within named lien
holder, to wit: Barry L. Heckard, by making known unto Barry L. Heckard, Tax Collector, Mechanicsburg
Borough, 605 Somerset Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania its contents
and at the same time handing to him personally the said true and correct copy of the same.
03/23/2012 Service Withdrawn by Attorney and Returned by the Sheriffs Offic
03/23/2012 Service Withdrawn by Attorney and Returned by the Sheriffs Offi?
03/23/2012 Service Withdrawn by Attorney and Returned by the Sheriffs Office (Jonestown Bank & Trust Company).
SHERIFF COST: $209.00
March 23, 2012
SO ANSWERS,
RON R ANDERSON, SHERIFF
(c) CountySuite Sheriff. Ieleosoft Inc.
t ' SHERIFF'S OFFICE OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Ronny R Anderson
Sheriff
Jody S Smith
Chief Deputy
Richard W Stewart
Solicitor
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OFFICE OF THE SRERIFF
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Cumberland County Tax Claim Bureau Case Number
vs.
Rollace E Heustess (et al.) 2012-1155
SHERIFF'S RETURN OF SERVICE
Jasop/Viokal, Deputy
Ti B ack, Deputy
IN RE: UPSET TAX SALE HELD IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
DECEMBER 12, 2011 OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
BY THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA --, 1
TAX CLAIM BUREAU -
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PROPERTY OF: NO. 2012 -1155 civil' -? -?`
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28 & 30 N. Market Street
Mechanicsburg Boro.
ORDER OF COURT
AND NOW, this 16th, day of May, 2012, upon representation by Stephen D. Tiley,
Esq., counsel for the Cumberland County Tax Claim Bureau, that the delinquent taxes
which were the subject of the Petition for Judicial Sale have been paid, the Petition in
the above captioned matter is DISMISSED and the Rule to Show Cause dated March 1,
2012 is VACATED.
By the Court,
Christylee L. Peck, J.