BOROUGH of EMSWORTH
ORDINANCE NO. 1018
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOROUGH OF EMSWORTH, COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 933 ADOPTED ON FEBRUARY 12, 2003, TO PROVIDE FOR PAYMENT OF SALARIES FOR THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL BASED ON MEETING ATTENDANCE.
The complete text of this Ordinance may be viewed at the Office of the Borough Secretary, Emsworth Municipal Building, 171 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202, Monday-Friday 9 am-3 pm. Public discussion of this proposed ordinance is invited and if no changes are made, the ordinance will be considered for adoption at the business meeting of Emsworth Borough Council to be held February 12, 2025, 6:30 p.m., prevailing time, at 171 Center Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202.
All persons having an interest in this ordinance should be present at the above time and place and you will have an opportunity to be heard.
CATHY JONES
Borough Secretary
NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, on February 07, 2008, a certain mortgage was executed by AARON L. SEATE, as mortgagor in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County in Mortgage Book M VL-35009 Page 164 Instrument # 2008-11912 (“Mortgage”); and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 1391 Laketon Road Pittsburgh, PA 15221, parcel number 0232L00126000000(“Property”); and
WHEREAS, Record Owner AARON L. SEATE is deceased. By operation of law, title vested solely in ALMETTA SEATE.
ALMETTA SEATE died on 03/23/22 and Letters Testamentary were granted to Minette M. Seate on 06/01/22 by the Register of Wills of Allegheny County, File No.: 02-22-03580. ALMETTA SEATE is hereby released of liability pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 1144.
;and
WHEREAS, the Property was owned by AARON L. SEATE by virtue of deed dated 12/2/1963 and recorded 12/7/1963 in Book:4115 Page:288 ;and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on 12/13/2018 in Book M VL-50062 Page 184 Instrument # 2018-83882, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as ALMETTA SEATE died on 03/23/2022 and that upon the death the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and
WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of 9/3/2024 is $63,469.52 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and
WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable;
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on 06/28/2012 in Misc. Bk-DE, Vl-14933, Pg-17, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on 02/05/2025; at 10:00 AM at at the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 all real property and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises will be sold at public action to the highest bidder:
ALL that certain lot or piece of ground situate in the Borough of Wilkinsburg, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point on the northerly side of Laketon Road, distant North 65 degrees 40 minutes East, 41.41 feet from the easterly line of property
conveyed by Mary M. Herr to Frank H. Davis by deed dated August 23, 1927 and recorded in Deed Book Volume 2340, Page 218; thence from said point of beginning, North 65 degrees 40 minutes East, along the northerly side of Laketon Road, a distance of 41.41 feet to a point on the line of property conveyed by Belva D. Swope, widow, to Ernest J. Kight, et ux, by deed recorded in Deed Book Volume 3234, Page 363; thence North 39 degrees 20 minutes West, along said Kight line, a distance of 239.73 feet to a point; thence South 50 degrees 40 minutes West, a distance of 40 feet to a point; thence South 39 degrees 20 minutes East, a distance of 229.02 feet to the northerly side of Laketon Road aforesaid, the place of beginning.
The sale will be held 02/05/2025; at 10:00 AM at at the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $63,469.52 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale.
The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $63,469.52 as of 09/03/2024, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.
There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.
When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.
The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day
extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.
If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.
There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.
KML LAW GROUP, P.C.
Foreclosure Commissioners
(215-825-6305)
NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, on February 16, 2011, a certain mortgage was executed by DOROTHY M. DAYTON, as mortgagor in favor of WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County in Mortgage Book M VL-39197, Page 298 or Document 2011-18213 (“Mortgage”); and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 1616 Concordia Street Pittsburgh, PA 15210, parcel number 60-G-219(“Property”); and WHEREAS, Mortgagor/Record Owner DOROTHY M. DAYTON died on 02/03/20 intestate and is survived by no known heirs. ;and
WHEREAS, the Property was owned by DOROTHY M. DAYTON by virtue of deed dated 6/27/1993 and recorded 6/28/1993 in Book:8994 Page:376 ;and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on 9/21/2018 in Book M VL-49771, Page 466 or Document 2018-64480, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as DOROTHY M. DAYTON died on 02/03/2020 and that upon the death the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and
WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of 9/10/2024 is $90,351.90 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and
WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable;
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family
Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’ s designation of me as Foreclosure
Commissioner, recorded on 06/28/2012 in Misc. Bk-DE, Vl-14933 Page-17, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on 02/05/2025; at 10:00 AM at at the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 all real property and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises will be sold at public action to the highest bidder:
File No. LRC702-490
All those certain lots or pieces of ground situate in the 29th Ward of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, being Lots Nos. 19, 20 and 21 in the Plan Book Volume 19, page 8.
Having erected thereon a building.
60-G-219
The sale will be held 02/05/2025; at 10:00 AM at at the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $90,351.90 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale.
The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $90,351.90 as of 09/10/2024, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.
There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.
When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.
The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.
If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.
There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.
KML LAW GROUP, P.C.
Foreclosure Commissioners
(215-825-6305)
NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE
WHEREAS, on December 21, 2012, a certain mortgage was executed by ORASTIO SCOUMIS and MARTHA MARIE SCOUMIS, as mortgagor in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS MORTGAGEE, AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD MORTGAGE ACCEPTANCE CO LLC DBA ANNIE MAC HOME MORTAGE, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS as mortgagee and was recorded in Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County in Mortgage Book M VL 41951 Page 330 Instrument # 2013-259 (“Mortgage”); and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage encumbers property located at 810 Jackman Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15202, parcel number 0159-H-00099-0000-00(“Property”); and
WHEREAS, Mortgagor/Record Owner MARTHA MARIE SCOUMIS died on 05/08/14. By operation of law title vests solely in ORASTIO SCOUMIS and MARTHA MARIE SCOUMIS is hereby released of liability pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 1144. ORASTIO SCOUMIS died on 12/17/21 intestate and is survived by his heir(s)-at-law, Kathy Lansittel and Connie Scoumis Bulgarelli aka Constantina Bulgarelli ;and
WHEREAS, the Property was owned by ORASTIO SCOUMIS & MARTHA MARIE SCOUMIS by virtue of deed dated 11/21/1977 and recorded 12/20/1977 in Book 5882 Page 204 and Instrument #93209 ;and
WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“Secretary”), pursuant to an assignment recorded on 8/28/2018 in Book M VL 49686 Page 394 Instrument # 2018-59027, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; and
WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage (paragraph 9 (a)(i)), as ORASTIO SCOUMIS died on 12/17/2021 and that upon the death the entire principal balance becomes due and owing, and that no payment was made, and remains wholly unpaid as of the date of this Notice; and
WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of 9/3/2024 is $143,885.09 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date; and
WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Mortgage to be immediately due and payable;
NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, l2 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 29, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on 06/28/2012 in Misc. Bk-DE, Vl-14933 PG 17, in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, notice is hereby given that on 2/5/2025 at 10:00 AM at the Main Entrance of the Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 all real property and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises will be sold at public action to the highest bidder:
ALL THAT CERTAIN property in the Avalon Borough, County of Allegheny and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Parcel ID # 0159-H-00099, being more fully described in Deed dated November 21, 1977, and recorded December 20, 1977, in the land records of the County and State set forth above, in Deed Book 5882, page 204.
BEING the same premises which Orastio Scoumis and Martha Marie Scoumis, his wife, by Deed dated November 21, 1977, and recorded
December 20, 1977, in the Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds Office, in Deed Book 5882, page 204, granted and conveyed unto Orastio Scoumis and Martha Marie Scoumis, his wife, in fee simple.
The sale will be held 2/5/2024 at 10:00 AM at the Main Entrance of the
Allegheny County Courthouse located at 436 Grant St, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $143,885.09 plus interest, costs and other charges through the sale date. Ten percent (10%) of the highest bid is the deposit required at the sale.
The amount that must be paid to HUD by the mortgagors or someone acting on their behalf so that the sale may be stayed is the total delinquent amount of $143,885.09 as of 09/03/2024, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the mortgage
had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting
notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-of-pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner for recording documents, a commission for the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.
There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.
When making their bid, all bidders, except the Secretary, must submit a deposit totaling ten percent 10% of the Secretary’s bid as set forth above in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. Each oral bid need not be accompanied by a deposit. If the successful
bid is oral, a deposit of ten (10%) percent must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within thirty (30) days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the high bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveyance fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.
The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for fifteen (15) days, and a fee will be charged in the amount of $150.00 for each fifteen (15) day extension requested. The extension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.
If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder’s deposit will be forfeited, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Representative, offer the Property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.
There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein.
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Foreclosure Commissioners
(215-825-6305)
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