FORECLOSURE NOTICE Attention homeowner: If you are a military service member on active duty, if your period of active duty has concluded less than 90 days ago, or if you have been ordered to active duty, please contact the attorney for the party foreclosing the mortgage at the telephone number stated in this notice. Notice of foreclosure by advertisement. Notice is given under section 3212 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.3212, that the following mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of the mortgaged premises, or some part of them, at a public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash or cashier's check at the place of holding the circuit court in Ionia County, starting promptly at 10:00 AM, March 19, 2026. The amount due on the mortgage may be greater on the day of the sale. Placing the highest bid at the sale does not automatically entitle the purchaser to free and clear ownership of the property. A potential purchaser is encouraged to contact the county register of deeds office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge a fee for this information. Default has been made in the conditions of a certain mortgage made by Bernard Rooker, A Single Man to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Mortgagee, as Nominee for Success Mortgage Partners, Inc., its successors and assigns, Mortgagee, dated August 29, 2016, and recorded on September 12, 2016, in Liber 643, Page 1736, Ionia County Records, said mortgage was assigned to Fifth Third Bank N.A. by an Assignment of Mortgage dated July 31, 2025 and recorded August 01, 2025 in Liber 683, Page 4883, on which mortgage there is claimed to be due at the date hereof the sum of Forty-Two Thousand Thirty-Four and 99/100 ($42,034.99) including interest at the rate of 3.75000% per annum. Said premises are situated in the Township of Easton, Ionia County, Michigan, and are described as: Parcel A: Commencing 264 feet West of the Northeast Corner of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 Section 15, Town 7 North, Range 7 West, Easton Township, Ionia County, Michigan; Thence West 66 feet; Thence South 264 feet; Thence East 100 feet; Thence North 75 feet; Thence West 35 feet; Thence North 189 feet to point of beginning. Section 15, Town 7 North, Range 7 West. Parcel B: Commencing 330 feet West of the Northeast Corner of the Northwest 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 15, Easton Township, Ionia County, Michigan; Thence West 32 feet; Thence South 264 feet; Thence East 32 feet; Thence North to the point of beginning. Except: Beginning at the Northwest 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 15, Town 7 North, Range 7 West, Easton Township, Ionia County, Michigan: Commencing at the North 1/4 post Section 15, Thence along the North line of said Section, South 88 degrees 34 minutes East 1071.83 feet; Thence South 00 degrees 35 minutes 17 seconds West 189.00 feet to point of beginning of this description; Thence South 00 degrees 35 minutes 17 seconds West 75.00 feet parallel with East line of Northwest 1/4 of Northeast 1/4 of Section; Thence South 88 degrees 38 minutes 34 seconds East 34 feet parallel with North line of section, Thence North 00 degrees 35 minutes 17 seconds East 75 feet parallel with East line of Northwest 1/4 of Northeast 1/4 if section, Thence North 88 degrees 34 minutes 34 seconds West 34 feet point of beginning. Commonly known as: 2299 LYLE RD, IONIA, MI 48846 If the property is eventually sold at foreclosure sale, the redemption period will be 6.00 months from the date of sale unless the property is abandoned or used for agricultural purposes. If the property is determined abandoned in accordance with MCL 600.3241 and/or 600.3241a, the redemption period will be 30 days from the date of sale, or 15 days after statutory notice, whichever is later. If the property is presumed to be used for agricultural purposes prior to the date of the foreclosure sale pursuant to MCL 600.3240, the redemption period is 1 year. Pursuant to MCL 600.3278, if the property is sold at a foreclosure sale, the borrower(s) will be held responsible to the person who buys the property at the mortgage foreclosure sale or to the mortgage holder for damaging the property during the redemption period. TO ALL PURCHASERS: The foreclosing mortgagee can rescind the sale. In that event, your damages are, if any, limited solely to the return of the bid amount tendered at sale, plus interest. Dated: February 13, 2026 Randall S. Miller & Associates, P.C. Attorneys for Fifth Third Bank N.A. 43252 Woodward Avenue, Suite 180, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302, (248) 335-9200 Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Case No. 25MI00963-1   1584729 (02-13)(03-06) Invoice Date: 03/06/2026