2 ( Two ) Manufactured Homes LIVE Bid Public Auction

An Opportunity to Live in Your Own Home!!

Combined Auction for both homes located at either  Michigan City, IN ( Weatherstone Village Manufactured Home Community ) & Portage ( Ingram Manor MHC )

Auction takes place at one central Auction Site location:

Portage, Indiana inside its heated Ingram Manor Office & Sales Center

3801 County Line Rd., Portage, IN.  46368

Auction - Thursday, January 28, 2021 -- 1 PM CST - Mask Required

Viewing & Inspection 12 Noon - 12:55 pm

Or sooner by private appointment

Can't Make the Auction ??

* Absentee Bids * Telephone Bids Welcome *

Must Notify Auctioneer by 5 pm CST Tuesday, January 26, 2021

No Buyer's Premium!  Live Bidding Public Auction

These 2  ( Two  ) - Manufactured Homes described below and its contents** and appurtenances** are being sold at Public Auction Thursday, January 28, 2021, authorized by Ingram Manor Manufactured Home Community ( for Michigan City homes authorized by Weatherstone Village Manufactured Home Community ) - Lienholder and Innkeeper's Lien for unpaid rent and lien for storage charges. Quantity of contents is a mixture - some homes, garages and sheds may be practically empty, while other homes, garages or sheds may have furniture and personal property belongings. All properties are abandoned, no one currently lives in the home(s).

Michigan City, IN Homes - (Live Auction happens in Portage)

1)   2001 Skyline, 16 x 76, Serial number # 9P420476N;

                  address - Weatherstone Village - 10107 Westmoreland Dr., Michigan City, Indiana 46360

Minimum Opening Bid:  $4,631.00   + 2021 Estimated Taxes + BMV Title Transfer Fee

(  Four Thousand Six Hundred Thirty One Dollars and Zero Cents)*

Portage, Indiana Home - Live Auction Happens in Portage Ingram Manor

3)  1993 Lincoln Park, 24 x 66, Serial number # LPP4228AB - MUST REMOVE

               address - Ingram Manor - 3793 Wexham St., Portage, Indiana  46368

Minimum Opening Bid:   $5,000.00   + 2021 Estimated Taxes + BMV Title Transfer Fee

( Five Thousand Dollars and Zero Cents)* + 2021 Estimated Taxes +Back Taxes $17,000.00 + BMV Title Transfer Fee  Update Posted 1/20/2021

Winning bidder of 1993 Lincoln Park MUST REMOVE home off Ingram Manor grounds within 30 days, OR, fix up this home so it meets or exceeds Ingram Manor community home standards. Fix up time period is limited with a deadline. This deadline time frame will be announced on auction day. For details and specifics on Ingram home standards requirement, call Ingram Manor Sales Office during regular open business hours weekdays, M-F.

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          TERMS: CASH w/full photo ID, Cashier's Check, Money order, credit/debit cards w/3% additional process fee. Any check payment or Out-of-state check  must be pre-approved with Auctioneer prior to the Auction by Monday, January 25, 2021, by calling the Auctioneer at 219-763-3741. (Title to Home(s) held until after check clears.)  Full payment on auction day. Manufactured Homes 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 ( for Weatherstone Village homes it's LaPorte County ) assessor and treasurer for the transfer of title permit and estimated property taxes for 2021 plus all unpaid property taxes 2020 and previous years. Also, per Ingram Manor (Weatherstone Village) rules, the winning bidder of the home(s) must either;  1) Be approved by the Ingram Manor Manufactured Home Community (Weatherstone Village) 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 the Ingram Manor Community are available on-site on Auction day and can be completed on Auction day or application can also occur prior to Auction Day on-line at the Ingram Manor (Weatherstone Village) websites;  or  2) Remove the home(s) off of Ingram Manor (Weatherstone Village) grounds.  Moving permit/certificate of insurance to be supplied to the Ingram Manor Management Office (Weatherstone Village Office) prior to removing or tear down beginning on said home. Monthly lot rent for any winning bidder/ buyer starts effective March 1, 2021.

It may be the winning bidder responsibility and requirement to take all paperwork to the Porter County (LaPorte County) Treasurer's 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.

            Winning high bidder has 30 days after the auction to properly remove the home(s) off of Ingram Manor MHC (Weatherstone Village) grounds. This buyer is responsible to pay accruing lot rent starting effective March 1, 2021. Any site fees that become due is to be paid via Cashier's Check or Money Order to Ingram Manor (Weatherstone Village). Should the buyer remove the home(s) off grounds prior to March 1 , 2021, no lot rent will be charged/assessed.

            ** 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.

Mask Required, Quantity of bidders inspecting inside a manufactured home at same time or inside Auction sales office site will be limited & controlled. We follow CDC guidelines and all local/state/federal mandates. Please keep good distance from each other. Even if you are feeling good, but you believe you've possibly been in a Covid or flu exposure setting recently during this past month, don't make any Public Auction a spreader event as an asymptomatic carrier, it's better to stay put at home. You can always call or Email Diana Cook with your buyer interest. We will work with you on your purchases at a telephone distance.

Directions:  From US Hwy 6 & the Porter County/Lake County - County Line Rd., go south 1/2 mile to the entrance for Ingram Manor Community, enter eastbound on Exeter Ave., it's across County Line Road 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.

To inspect the 2 ( Two ) auction homes, by pre-arranged private appointment,  located at Weatherstone Village Manufactured Home Community's address:

1100 W. U.S. 20, Michigan City, Indiana 46360

Located on south side of US Hwy. 20 & 1 mile west of U.S. 421 (Franklin St.)

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