2  (Two)  Manufactured Mobile Homes- LIVE BID Auction

Wed.,  July 26, 2023,  1 PM  CST

Combined Auction Site for Both Michigan City & Portage Homes - inside Ingram Manor Office & Sales Center - 3801 County Line Rd., Portage, IN.  46368 - at Exeter Ave entrance circle around drive

Telephone Bidding Welcome - MUST Inform & Pre-Arrange with

Auctioneer by 5 PM CST, Monday, July 24, call 219-763-3741 (No Text)

Opportunity to Live in Your Own Home!!

* 10 AM - 12 Noon 7/26 CST  - Viewing & Inspection Michigan City home  - check-in  1st at Weatherstone Village Sales Office, 1100 W US 20, Michigan City, Indiana 46360, on south side of US 20, 1 mile west of US 421/Franklin St.,  Or sooner by personal private appointment

* 12 Noon - 12:55 PM 7/26 CST - Viewing & Inspection Portage home -

 check-in  1st at Ingram Manor Office & Sales Center, 3801 County Line Rd., Portage

Home #1 - Year 1975, Located:  Weatherstone Village,  Michigan City (LaPorte County)  -  

 High Bidder immediately also pays + $520. Monthly Lot Rent + $40 Monthly water/sewer fee, + current year property taxes, + back property taxes (if any), + $40 approx. BMV title transfer fee

Home #2 - Located:  Ingram Manor, Portage, IN (Porter County)  - 

5252 Seaford Ave. Portage, IN. 46368

16 x 68 2/2, Year 2000, North Pointe Model, Serial# PAT239121N,  Minimum Opening Bid:  $3,800. [Three Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ]

High Bidder immediately also pays  + $542. Monthly Lot Rent + current year property taxes, + back property taxes (if any), + $40 approx. BMV title transfer fee. This home may remain on Ingram Manor grounds and become your owner occupied residence, or High Winning Bidder may choose to remove it within 60 days.

Bidder(s) must be thoroughly knowledgeable of Terms, residency requirements, home moving requirements, Weatherstone Village/Ingram Manor community standards BEFORE placing a bid. All Bidders must READ and sign off on day of Auction  4 paragraphs detailed below "Public Auction Guidelines."  

For specifics on Weatherstone Village Manufactured Home Community (MHC) standards requirements, call Sales Office, during  regular weekday business hours,  M-F, 219-874-5465.

For specifics on Portage Ingram Manor MHC - Manufactured Home Community, an age 55 & older community,  call M-F, 219-942-6993.

Manufactured Home(s) described above and its contents** and appurtenances** are being sold at a Public LIVE Bid Auction, authorized by the respective MHC management company  - Lienholder and Innkeeper's Lien for unpaid rent and lien for storage charges. Contents and appurtenances may include (if any) all fixtures, appliances, furniture, mattresses, TV's, curtains, drapes, mini blinds, and all other window treatments, and all other personal property located within said manufactured 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 garage and shed may have larger quantity of furniture and personal property belongings. IF there is a garage on the lot, its structure is to remain on-site and NOT be removed. However, garage contents must be removed. All properties are abandoned, no one currently lives in the home.

Public Auction Guidelines:

Please be advised that the listed home(s) is/are being sold through a public auction sale managed through Diana Cook licensed Indiana Auctioneer. At no time does Weatherstone Village/Ingram Manor assume responsibility for processing any Titling Paperwork for the home(s) listed as this home(s) is title and owned by another individual.  Any and all parties will take FULL  responsibility of this home(s) at the time of purchase date of Auction Day, if they are the winning purchaser.

Weatherstone Village/Ingram Manor will relinquish all original paperwork required in which to conduct this public auction sale on the 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 accepts and agrees to all responsibility of the listed home(s) from 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 at the time of close of Auction will become responsibility of the purchaser beginning on Auction Day. Purchaser accepts and agrees to pay Weatherstone Village/Ingram Manor or  the ongoing monthly site fee beginning the date of public auction sale until this home(s) has either been resold to a qualified buyer who has signed a new lease with Weatherstone Village/Ingram Manor or listed home(s) has been removed from Weatherstone Village/Ingram Manor property.  If the home has not been sold to a qualified buyer within sixty (60) days from the date of public auction sale, the purchaser must complete a community application, obtain community approval for the site, sign the community lease and pay all required fees OR remove the home from the community immediately.

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       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.

In summary,  it is high winning bidder responsibility and requirement to take all paperwork to the County Treasurer's/Assessor office to pay outstanding taxes on home(s) and 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 approximately $40 expense.

IF  home(s) a "Must Remove, " high Winning bidder has 30 days after the auction to properly remove the home(s) off of community  grounds.  Moving permit/certificate of insurance to be supplied to the respective MHC management company  office prior to removing or tear down beginning on said home.

Other questions commonly asked by bidders - NO, you cannot purchase a home and then use it for rental income & rent it out with you as owner/landlord.  Homes in either community must be owner occupied - who lives here MUST be listed on the Title. You can purchase to re-sell it to an approved community resident within a 60 day time period after Auction Date purchase. 

Directions:  From US Hwy 6 & the Porter County/Lake County - County Line Rd. traffic light, go south 1/2 mile to the entrance for Ingram Manor Community, enter eastbound on Exeter Ave., it's across from Calumet Park Funeral Home. Go to the circle around area for Ingram Manor Office & Sales Center building, a parking lot is on its north side. Note - 3 different & separately managed manufactured housing communities are sandwiched next to each other on the east side on County Line Road, starting with Camelot Estates, then Camelot Manor & the 3rd & furthest south is Ingram Manor - Ingram is the one you want to enter for this Public Auction.

Dress for Weather. Always Watch your step & head when inspecting these homes.  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.

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