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LEGAL NOTICE

ROTH, BLAIR, ROBERTS,

STRASFELD & LODGE

Attorneys At Law

100 Federal Plaza East, Suite 600

Youngstown, OH 44503-1893

Telephone: 330-744-5211

IN THE COURT OF

COMMON PLEAS,

MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO

120 Market Street

Youngstown, Ohio 44503-1751

Case No. 05CV 1706

AMERICAN TAX FUNDING, LLC

PLAINTIFF,

VS.

ELLA BROWN, ET AL.,

DEFENDANTS.

Ella Brown, Estate of Ella Brown, Unknown Spouse of Ella Brown, Unknown Tenant or Land Contract Vendee, and Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Grantees, or Assigns of Ella Brown, whose exact address cannot be ascertained with reasonable diligence shall take notice that on the 12th day of May, 2005, Plaintiff, American Tax Funding, LLC filed its Complaint in Foreclosure Case No. 05CV 1706 in the Court of Common Pleas, Mahoning County, Ohio, to foreclose the liens held by it for delinquent real estate taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, charges, and costs with respect to the real property located at:

Situated in the Township of Austintown, County of Mahoning and State of Ohio, and known as being Lot No. Nine Hundred Eight (908) of a Subdivision of Austintown Township, plat of which is recorded in Volume 19, Page 58, Mahoning County Records of Deeds.

PROPERTY LOCATION: 131 Carnegie Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio 44515

PERMANENT PARCEL NO. 48-025-0-598.00-0

The prayer of the Complaint is for an order directing that the above-described property be sold at public auction, that the proceeds therefrom be used to satisfy Plaintiff's liens, and for such other relief as the Court may deem just, equitable, and necessary. Plaintiff further prays that the above-named Defendants be required to answer and set up their interest in said premises or be forever barred from asserting the same, that Plaintiff's liens be found to be good and valid first liens on said premises.

Said Defendants are required to answer Plaintiff's Complaint within twenty-eight (28) days after the last date of publication of this notice, which notice shall be made once per week for three consecutive weeks, said answer day being the 3rd day of February, 2006. If said Defendants fail to timely respond, the Court may enter a default judgment against them for the relief requested in the Complaint.

ROTH, BLAIR, ROBERTS,

  STRASFELD & LODGE

BY: JOHN N. ZOMOIDA, JR.

Attorney for American Tax Funding, LLC.

Dec 23,30, 2005; Jan 6, 2006  05-02308