WHEREAS, default in the payment of principal and interest has occurred under the terms of a promissory note (the “Note”) dated April 04, 2019, executed and delivered by Erika Merling to Quicken Loans Inc. and a real estate mortgage (the “Mortgage”) of the same date securing the Note, which Mortgage was executed and delivered by Erika Merling, a single woman (the “Mortgagors”), to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., and which Mortgage was recorded on April 05, 2019, as Instrument No. 668031 Book - 524 Page - 616 in the records of the office of the County Clerk and ex-officio Register of Deeds in and for Platte County, State of Wyoming; and
WHEREAS, the mortgage was assigned for value as follows:
Assignee: Rocket Mortgage, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans Inc.
Assignment dated: 09/13/2022
Assignment recorded: 09/15/2022
Assignment recording information: Instrument No. 702577, Book - 559, Page - 792
All in the records of the County clerk and ex-officio Register of Deeds in and for Platte County, Wyoming.
WHEREAS, the Mortgage contains a power of sale which by reason of said default, the Mortgagee declares to have become operative, and no suit or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt secured by the Mortgage, or any part there-of, nor has any such suit or proceeding been instituted and the same discontinued; and
WHEREAS, written notice of intent to foreclose the Mortgage by advertisement and sale has been served upon the record owner and the party in possession of the mortgaged premises at least ten (10) days prior to the commencement of this publication, and the amount due upon the Mortgage on the date of first publication of this notice of sale being the total sum of $335,966.40 which sum consists of the unpaid principal balance of $307,835.69 plus Interest accrued to the date of the first publication of this notice in the amount of $18,007.06, plus attorneys’ fees, costs expended, and accruing interest and late charges after the date of first publication of this notice of sale;
WHEREAS, the property being foreclosed upon may be subject to other liens and encumbrances that will not be extinguished at the sale. Any prospective purchaser should research the status of title before submitting a bid;
NOW, THEREFORE Rocket Mortgage, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans Inc., as the Mortgagee, will have the Mortgage foreclosed as by law provided by causing the mortgaged property to be sold at public venue by the Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff in and for Platte County, Wyoming to the highest bidder for cash at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon on July 27, 2023, at Platte County Courthouse, 800 9th St, Wheatland, WY 82201, for application on the above-described amounts secured by the Mortgage, said mortgaged property being described as follows, to-wit:
Tracts 5 and 6, Oregon Trail Ranch Survey - Phase 1, situated in portions of the SE1/4, SW1/4 Section 2, SE1/4, SW1/4 Section 3, NE1/4, NW1/4, Section 10, NE1/4SW1/4, NW1/4 Section 11 and SW1/4, NW1/4 Section 12, all in Township 27 North, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., Platte County, Wyoming, as shown by the Record of Survey recorded August 5, 1997 in Plat Cabinet 1, Page 163, and as amended by Amendment to Record of Survey recorded December 9, 1998 in Plat Cabinet 1, Page 167, Platte County, Wyoming records.
With an address of: 19 Wilderness Rd, Wheatland, WY 82201
Together with all improvements thereon situate and all fixtures and appurtenances thereto.
Date: 5/30/2023
C. Morgan Lasley
Brian G. Sayer
C. Morgan Lasley
Marcello G. Rojas
THE SAYER LAW GROUP, P.C.
925 E. 4th St.
Waterloo, Iowa 50703
319-234-2530
319-232-6341
Public Notice No. 11443. To be published in the Platte County Record-Times - June 14, 21, 28 and July 5, 2023.
