LIVE Bidding Public Auction

1 Home - Ingram Manor

3801 County Line Rd., Portage, IN  46368

Wed. March 23, 2022, 1 pm Auction CST, 12 Noon - 12:55 pm,  Viewing & Inspection or sooner by private personal appointment

1)  1985 Empire, 14 x 70, 2 bed 1 bath Ser# 11227895- MUST REMOVE, address  3778 Helix St., Portage, IN 46368 - Minimum Opening Bid:  $3,100. [ Three-Thousand, One-Hundred Dollars ] + $506. monthly lot rent payable on Auction Day, +Buyer is responsible to pay back property taxes & prorated 2022 taxes. It's buyer's responsibility to research with Porter County Assessor/Treasurer's offices as to what amounts may be outstanding. The garage stays and remains on Ingram Manor property.

No Buyer's Premium!  Absentee Bids Welcome! Must contact Auctioneer by Sunday, March March 20, 2022, 5 PM CST, Call 219-763-3741

Public Auction Guidelines -

Be advised that the listed home(s) is being sold through a public auction managed through Diana Cook, Indiana licensed Auctioneer. At no time does Ingram Manor assume responsibility for processing any Titling Paperwork for the home(s) listed as this home(s) is titled and owned by another individual. Any and all interested parties will take FULL responsibility of this home(s) at the time of purchase on Auction Day, if he/she is the high winning bidder/purchaser.

Ingram Manor will relinquish all original paperwork required in which to conduct this public auction of the noted listed home(s).

·        Title Search indicating titleholder and/or lienholders

·        Certified letters mailed to titleholder and all lienholder(s) listed on the title search

·        Publisher's Affidavit of Publication

·        Affidavit of Sale or Disposal - Abandoned Manufactured home (Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles - State Form 50635) with signed Auctioneer information.

Winning purchaser/high bidder accepts and agrees to all responsibility of the listed home(s) effective on Auction Date in processing paperwork in which to obtain title in their name. Furthermore, all monthly fees on the site where home(s) is located become the responsibility of the purchaser beginning on Auction Day. Purchaser accepts and agrees to pay Ingram Manor ongoing monthly site fee ( $506.00 ) beginning on the date of public auction until this home has either been resold to a qualified buyer who has signed a new lease with Ingram Manor or the listed home(s) has been removed from Ingram Manor property. If the home(s) has not been sold to a qualified buyer with sixty ( 60 ) days from the date of public auction, the purchaser must complete a community application (which has a fee for this process), obtain community approval for the site, sign the community lease and pay all required fees OR remove the home(s) from the Ingram Manor community immediately.

Note: Ingram Manor in Portage is a 55 and older resident community. For information and details about how to apply for Ingram Manor residency and Community standards, call Ingram Manor Sales Office M-F during normal business hours, 219-942-6993.

Manufactured Home(s) described above and its contents** and appurtenances** are being sold at Public Auction Wednesday, March 23, 2022, authorized by Ingram Manor Manufactured Home Community, Portage, IN. 46368- Lienholder and Innkeeper's Lien for unpaid rent and lien for storage charges.  Contents and appurtenances may include (if any) all fixtures, appliances, furniture, TV's, curtains, drapes, mini blinds, and all other window treatments, and all other personal property located within said mobile home, all blocking, tie-downs, and set up materials, awnings, porches, skirting, steps, antennas, sheds, and all clothing, personal property and belongings therein or upon said lot. Quantity of contents is a mixture - a home, may or may not have a garage and shed may be practically empty, while other homes, and/or home, garage and shed may have furniture and personal property belongings.  All properties are abandoned, no one currently lives in the home.

            TERMS: Cashier's Check, Money order, w/Full Photo ID,  Full payment on auction day plus other so noted other expenses. Manufactured Home(s) Sold "As Is, Where Is" no warranties or guarantees, you must rely on your own personal inspection. Not responsible for accidents, injury or items after "SOLD." You, the bidder, are responsible to secure your items you have bid on and won. Announcements made on Auction day take priority over previous publications or electronic communications.

Dress for Weather. Don't flip cigarette butts on street, driveway or ground, only in proper receptacle. Please respect neighbors and not block driveways, mailboxes or pull off street onto their grass-allow wide street access for potential passage of any emergency vehicles.

            * Other expenses to be absorbed by the high bidder, buyer - is the cost with  Porter County assessor and treasurer for the transfer of title permit and estimated property taxes for 2022 plus all unpaid property taxes for previous years. Also, per Ingram Manor  MHC rules, the winning bidder of the home(s) must either; 1) Be approved by the Ingram Manor MHC for residency/occupancy within 72 hours from time of purchase for homes which meet Community standards. Applications for the approval consideration process to live in Ingram Manor are available on-site on Auction day and can be completed on Auction day or recommended that application can also occur prior to Auction Day on-line at the Ingram Manor   website;  or  2) Remove the home(s) off of  Ingram Manor grounds.  Moving permit/certificate of insurance to be supplied to the Ingram Manor.  Office prior to removing or tear down beginning on said home. Monthly lot rent for any winning bidder/ buyer starts effective Auction Day.

It is the winning bidder responsibility and requirement to take all paperwork to the Porter County Treasurer's office to pay outstanding taxes on home(s) and to search for title and then  obtain transfer of title permit. He/she/they will then take all issued paperwork to the Indiana BMV (Bureau of Motor Vehicles) to have title transferred into their (he/she or corporation) name. BMV title transfer cost absorbed by the high winning bidder is approximately $40.

Dress for Weather, Restroom facility

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