Name of Entity or Individual Who
Purchased Property at a Tax Sale
Address of Purchaser of Property at Tax Sale
Anytown, Georgia 30303
 

Certified Mailing Date: ___________ xx, 20__.

[Insert Name of Former Owner of the Tax Sale Property]
Address of Former Owner at Tax Sale
Anytown, GA 30303

Occupant
Address of the Property purchased at Tax Sale
Anytown, GA 30303

Re: Notice of Foreclosure of the Right of Redemption of the Below Described Property Purchased at Tax Sale

Dear [Name of Former Owner at Tax Sale];

[Occupant]; and,

[Any Person who may have an Interest in the Property]:

To all of the above Individuals and Entities, please take notice that:

The Right to Redeem the following described property, to wit:

[Insert full Legal Description here. Or, if unavailable, insert the best Legal Description available, including, if applicable the mailing address and zip code of the Tax Sale Property.]

____________ will expire and be forever foreclosed and barred on and after the ________ day of ________, 20____.

The tax deed to which this notice relates is dated the ________ day of ________, 20____, and is recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of ________ County, Georgia, in Deed Book ________ at page ________.

The property may be redeemed at any time before the ________ day of ________, 20____, by payment of the redemption price as fixed and provided by law to the undersigned at the following address:

[Insert Here the Redemption Address that the Purchaser of a Tax Deed at Tax Sale wishes the Redeemer at which to contact him]

Please be governed accordingly.

Sincerely yours,

Individual or Entity Who Purchased at Tax Sale

* * * *

Instructions to Sheriff:

To the Sheriff of _______________ County, Georgia.

Greetings: Pursuant to OCGA § 48-4-46, please serve this Notice on the Entities and/or Individual(s), who lost their land at the Tax Sale listed above within 15 days of the delivery of this Notice to your office.

Please Notify us when service has been accomplished, by mailing copies of the Return of Service to us at the following address:

[Insert Here the Redemption Address that the Purchaser of a Tax Deed at Tax Sale wishes the Redeemer at which to contact him]

____________________________________

(a) The notice provided for in Code Section 48-4-45 shall be written or printed, or written in part and printed in part, and shall be in substantially the following form: ____________ (b) The purchaser at the tax sale or his heirs, successors, or assigns, as the case may be, shall make out an original notice in substantially the form prescribed in subsection (a) of this Code section and one copy of the notice for each person to be served with the notice. The purchaser shall deliver the notice and the copies together with a list of the persons to be served to the sheriff of the county in which the land is located not less than 45 days before the date set in each notice for the expiration of the right to redeem. Within 15 days after delivery to him, the sheriff shall serve a copy of the notice personally or by deputy upon each of the persons included on the list furnished him who reside in the county. The sheriff shall make an entry of the service on the original copy of the notice. Leaving a copy of the notice at the residence of any person required to be served with the notice shall be a sufficient service of the notice. (c) If the sheriff personally or by deputy makes an entry that he is unable for any reason to effect service upon any person required to be served, the person who requested that the service be made shall forthwith cause a copy of the notice to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in the newspaper in which the sheriff's advertisements for the county are published, unless that notice is being published as provided in paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of Code Section 48-4-45. Either publication shall operate as and for all purposes shall be treated as service upon all persons as to whom the sheriff has made an entry that he has been unable to effect service. (d) Each original notice together with the entry of the sheriff on the notice shall be returned to the person by whom the service was requested upon the payment of the sheriff's costs as provided by law. Any original notice together with the entries on the notice may be filed and recorded on the deed records in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county in which the land is located. (e) Service of notices as provided in this Code section may be waived in writing by any person required or entitled to be served with the notice.