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Copyright © Montgomery Bar Association 2012 1/12/2012 MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAW REPORTER Vol 1/12/2012 MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAW REPORTER Vol. 149, No. 2 SHERIFF’S SALES By virtue of various writs issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Pa. to me directed will be sold at public sale on January 25, 2012 at 1:00 o’clock P.M. prevailing time, in Court Room “A”, Court House, Swede and Airy Streets, in the Borough of Norristown, said County, the following described Real Estate. To all parties in interest and claimants: Notice is hereby given the schedules of distribution by the Sheriff on February 29, 2012 and distribution will be made in accordance with the schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter. All properties to be sold by EILEEN WHALON BEHR, SHERIFF. Third and Final Publication 06-20699 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of land and East end of a double brick house, situate upon the Northwesterly side of Washington Street, in Royersford Borough, County of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described, as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a stake in the center line of said street, a corner of lands now or late of David H. Root and being one hundred and thirty-one and one-half feet Northeasterly from the center line of Third Avenue, formerly Winter Street; thence by other lands of now or late David H. Root, North forty-one degrees, West two hundred feet to a stake; thence by lands now or late of J.M. Shade, North forty-nine degrees, East thirty feet to a stake; thence by lands of the Estate of Daniel Latshaw, deceased, South forty-one degrees, East two hundred feet to a stake in the center line of the aforesaid Washington Street; thence on said center line South forty-nine degrees, West thirty feet to the place of beginning. BEING the same premises which J. Ronald Cauffman and Elizabeth Cauffman, husband and wife, by Deed dated April 19, 1999 and recorded on May 4, 1999, in Montgomery County Record Book 5270, at Page 0053, granted and conveyed to Joseph P. Stednitz and Pamela J. Romano, as Joint Tenants With Right of Survivorship. AND the said Joseph P. Stednitz departed this life on June 29, 2008, whereby operation of law title became vested in Pamela J. Romano by Right of Survivorship. Parcel Number: 19-00-05280-00-2. Location of property: 311 Washington Street, Royersford, PA 19468. The improvements thereon are: Twin style single family residential dwelling. Seized and taken in execution as the property of Joseph P. Stednitz and Pamela J. Romano a/k/a Pamela Stednitz at the suit of HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee, on Behalf of the Holders of the Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2005-HE1. Debt: $159,111.47. Barbara A. Fein, Attorney. ID. #53002 Above Property to be sold by EILEEN WHALON BEHR, SHERIFF. DOWN MONEY: A deposit of ten (10%) percent of the Price Bid or $3,000. dollars whichever amount is greater, shall be required to be paid in cash or by certified check to the Sheriff as down money on each property purchased. 07-16887 ALL THAT CERTAIN parcel of land, located in Norristown Borough, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, as shown on the plan entitled Preliminary/Final Site Plan of Chestnut Ridge II, prepared by ProTract, Engineering, Inc., Pottstown, Pennsylvania, dated May 4, 2004, last revised on August 26, 2004 and being more fully described, as follows: BEGINNING at a point in line of lands of n/l Carl D. and Rose M. DiCicco, said point also a corner of lands of proposed Lot 1, said point being measured the following two courses and distances from the intersection of the Northerly right-of-way of East Marshall Street (50 feet ultimate width) and the Westerly right-of-way of Violet Street (50 feet ultimate width): (1) North 73 degrees, 43 minutes West, 263.90 feet; (2) North 21 degrees, 34 minutes, 35 seconds East, 56.63 feet as shown on said plan; thence from said point of beginning, along lands of said n/l DiCicco, North 21 degrees, 34 minutes, 35 seconds East, 20 feet to a point, a corner of lands of proposed Lot 3; thence leaving lands of said n/l DiCicco and along lands of said proposed Lot 3 South 68 degrees, 25 minutes, 25 seconds East, 100.00 feet to a point in line of lands of proposed Lot 6, said point also on the Westerly edge of a proposed private road; thence along Lot 6 and said private road South 21 degrees, 34 minutes, 35 seconds West, 20.00 feet to a point, a corner of lands of proposed Lot 1; thence along lands of said Lot 1 North 68 degrees, 25 minutes, 25 seconds West, 100.00 feet to the point and place of beginning. BEING Lot No. 2 as being set forth and recorded in Plan Book 24, Page 151 and Plan Book 24, Page 227. BEING Block 128, Unit 51. AND Whereas the above mentioned private road is now known as Swift Street. BEING the same premises which Edward Reese, Jr. by Deed dated 12/30/05 and recorded 1/05/2006 in Montgomery County in Deed Book 05585, Page 1857, Instrument #2006001509, granted and conveyed unto Keisha Gresham. Parcel Number: 13-00-24804-09-5. Location of property: 603 Swift Street, Norristown, PA 19401. The improvements thereon are: A single family residential dwelling. Seized and taken in execution as the property of Keisha Gresham a/k/a Keishia Y. Gresham at the suit of The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Benefit of the Certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-BC3. Debt: $210,257.58. Jill P. Jenkins, Attorney I.D. #306588 Above Property to be sold by EILEEN WHALON BEHR, SHERIFF. DOWN MONEY: A deposit of ten (10%) percent of the Price Bid or $3,000. dollars whichever amount is greater, shall be required to be paid in cash or by certified check to the Sheriff as down money on each property purchased. — 22 — Copyright © Montgomery Bar Association 2012 1/12/2012 MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAW REPORTER Vol. 149, No. 2 07-23959 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground, situate in Lower Merion Township, County of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described according to a topographical map prepared for Shipley School by Milton R. Yerkes, Civil Engineers, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1932 and last revised as to this piece August 28, 1950, as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point in the middle line of Waverly Road (forty feet wide) said point is at the distance of one thousand one hundred twenty-one feet and seventy-six one-hundredths feet measured Northeastwardly along the middle line of said Waverly Road from its intersection with the middle line of Youngsford Road (thirty-three feet wide); thence extending along the middle line of Waverly Road, North forty degrees, thirty-nine minutes East, one hundred eighty-four feet and sixty-seven one-hundredths feet to a point; thence leaving Waverly Road by land now or late of Francis J. Loughran, Jr., South thirty-three degrees, twenty-two minutes East, two hundred thirty-eight feet and seventy-eight one-hundredths feet to an iron pin; thence extending South forty-nine degrees, six minutes West, one hundred seventy-three feet and forty-six one-hundredths feet to a point; thence extending North thirty-four degrees, fifty-two minutes, forty-five seconds West, two hundred ten feet and seventy-six one-hundredths feet to the first mentioned point and place of beginning. CONTAINING nine hundred and four one-thousandths of an acre. TITLE TO SAID PREMISES IS VESTED IN David J. Simpson, III and Michael R. Meehan, Sr., as Tenants in Common by Deed from Katharine Brinton Brown Grala, Co-Executrix of the Estate of Katharine Livingston Brown (a/k/a Katharine Livingston Brown, Jr.) by her Agent, Michael W. Mills by a Power of Attorney dated 10-20-2003 to be recorded and Emma C. Brown, Co-Executrix of the Estate of Katharine Livingston Brown (a/k/a Katharine Livingston Brown, Jr.) by her Agent, Michael W. Mills by a Power of Attorney dated 8-29-2003, dated 10-31-2003, recorded 11-17-2003 in Book 05481, Page 1817. Parcel Number: 40-00-64700-00-6. Location of property: 1347 Waverly Road, Gladwyne, PA 19035-1222. The improvements thereon are: Residential property. Seized and taken in execution as the property of David J. Simpson, III and Michael R. Meehan, Sr. at the suit of U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Holders of CSAB 2006-3. Debt: $1,276,086.04. Allison F. Wells, Attorney. I.D. #309519 Above Property to be sold by EILEEN WHALON BEHR, SHERIFF. DOWN MONEY: A deposit of ten (10%) percent of the Price Bid or $3,000. dollars whichever amount is greater, shall be required to be paid in cash or by certified check to the Sheriff as down money on each property purchased. 08-11356 ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or piece of ground, situate in Abington Township, being Lot Number 642 in a certain plan of lots known as the Plan of Willow Grove Heights, which said plan is recorded at Norristown in the Office for the Recording of Deeds in and for said County of Montgomery, in Deed Book 380, Page 500, and bounded and described, as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the Southwest side of Lammot (now known as Lamott) Avenue at the distance of one hundred eighty-nine and twenty-nine one-hundredths feet East from the Easterly side of Oak Avenue, having in front on said Lammot (now known as Lamott) Avenue fifty feet, and extending in a Southwestwardly direction seventy-seven and eighty-seven one-hundredths feet West side and ninety-one and thirty-seven and one-hundredths feet on the East side, and containing in the rear fifty-one and seventy-nine one-hundredths feet.
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