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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 1028

SOUTHPOINTE FINANCIAL GROUP

PLAINTIFF,

VS.

ALEX SZALAY, ET AL.,

DEFENDANTS.

Alex Szalay and Jane Doe, Real Name Unknown, The Unknown Spouse, if any, of Alex Szalay, whose exact address cannot be ascertained with reasonable diligence shall take notice that on the 29th day of September, 2005, Plaintiff, American Tax Funding, LLC filed its Amended Answer with Counterclaim and Cross-claim in Case No. 05CV 1028 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 situated in the City of Youngstown, County of Mahoning and State of Ohio, and:

Known as being Lot No. 37372 according to the latest enumeration of lots in said City, also known as Plat Lot No. 682 in the plat of lots known as Plat No. 8 of Cochran Park, which plat is recorded in Volume 19 of Plats, Page 55, Mahoning County Records to which reference is here made for metes and bounds.

Said Lot has a frontage of 45 feet on the North side of Hilton Avenue and extends back therefrom of even width to a depth of 138.4 feet.

PROPERTY LOCATION: 160 Hilton, Youngstown, Ohio 44507

PERMANENT PARCEL NO. 53-118-0-375.00-0

In its Amended Answer with Counterclaim and Cross-claim, American Tax Funding, LLC seeks an order directing that the above-described property be sold at public auction, that the proceeds therefrom be used to satisfy its liens, and for such other relief as the Court may deem just, equitable and necessary. American Tax Funding, LLC further prays that above-named Defendants be required to reply and set up their interest in said premises or be forever barred from asserting the same, that its liens be found to be good and valid first liens on said premises, and at equity of redemptions of said premises be foreclosed.

The above-named Defendants are required to reply to the Amended Answer with Counterclaim and Cross-claim of American Tax Funding, LLC 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 8th day of March, 2006. If said Defendants fail to timely respond, the Court may enter a default judgment against them for the relief requested in the Amended Answer with Counterclaim and Cross-claim.

ROTH, BLAIR, ROBERTS,

  STRASFELD & LODGE

BY: JOHN N. ZOMOIDA, JR.

Attorney for American Tax Funding, LLC.

Jan 25; Feb 1,8, 2006  06-00088