STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE   STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF GREENVILLE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2026-CP-23-02399   Finance of America Reverse LLC, Plaintiff, v. Any heirs-at-law or devisees of Cecil S. Skidgel a/k/a C. Steven Skidgel, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe; The United States of America, acting by and through its Agency, The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Defendant(s).   SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE    TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:  YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 1400 Browning Road, Suite 160, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.  TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:  YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.  YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.  YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto. LIS PENDENS    NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Cecil S. Skidgel and Karen J. Curtis to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee, as nominee for American Financial Network, Inc. dated June 14, 2018 and recorded on June 21, 2018 in Book 5441 at Page 411, in the Greenville County Registry (hereinafter, “Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment and/or corporate merger.  The premises covered and affected by the said Mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particularly described in the said Mortgage and are more commonly described as:   INCORRECT: All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the City of Greenville, County of Greenville, State of South Carolina on the southwestern side of Hindman Drive and being shown and designated as Lot No. 5 on plat entitled Subdivision for C. C. Hindman, Jr., Dorothy H. Davenport, Hilda H. Carver & Henry L. Hindman, prepared by Pickell and Pickell, dated November 1950, recorded in the RMC Office for Greenville County, S. C., in Plat Book "DD", Page 77 and having, according to said plat the following metes and bounds, to-wit:   Beginning at an iron pin on the southwestern side of Hindman Drive at the joint front corner of Lots Nos. 4 and 5 and running thence with the common line of said lots S 18-48 W 185 feet to a fifteen (15) foot alley; thence with line of said alley N 71-37 W 20.8 feet; thence continuing with said alley N 76-37 W 79.4 feet to an iron pin at the joint rear corner of Lots Nos. 5 and 6; thence with the common line of said Lots K 18-48 E 193.2 feet to an iron pin on the southwestern side of Hindman Drive; thence with the southwestern side of said drive S 71-10 E 100 feet to the point of Beginning.   CORRECT: All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the City of Greenville, County of Greenville, State of South Carolina, on the Southwestern side of Hindman Drive and being shown and designated as Lot No. 5 on a plat entitled, "Subdivision for C. C. Hindman, Jr., Dorothy H. Davenport, Hilda H. Carver & Henry L. Hindman," prepared by Pickell and Pickell, dated November 1950, recorded in the RMC Office for Greenville County in Plat Book DD at Page 77, said plat being incorporated herein by this reference for a more complete and accurate description.   This being the same property conveyed to Karen J. Curtis and C. Steven Skidgel by deed of Kent Lantaff and Lynn G. Lantaff dated October 12, 1979, and recorded October 15, 1979, in Book 1113 at Page 531 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Greenville County, South Carolina. Thereafter, Karen J. Curtis and Cecil S. Skidgel a/k/a C. Steven Skidgel conveyed the property to Cecil S. Skidgel and Karen J. Curtis, as joint tenants with right of survivorship, by quitclaim deed dated June 14, 2018, and recorded June 21, 2018, in Book 2541 at Page 2108 in said Records. Thereafter, Karen J. Curtis died on September 6, 2024 and the subject property passed to Cecil S. Skidgel a/k/a C. Steven Skidgel by operation of law. Thereafter, Cecil S. Skidgel a/k/a C. Steven Skidgel died on or about July 18, 2025, leaving the subject property to his heirs/devisees.   TMS No. 0176.00-03-144.00   Property Address: 19 Hindman Drive, Greenville, SC 29609   NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT   TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:    YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above-entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Greenville County on April 14, 2026. A Notice of Foreclosure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court's Office.   ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI   It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem Nisi for unknown minors, and persons who may be under a legal disability, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to said appointment, it is  ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a legal disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 19 Hindman Drive, Greenville, SC 29609; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in The Greenville News, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Greenville, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons and Notice of Filing of Complaint in the above-entitled action.  AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire shall become Absolute 30 days after the completion of service of this Order without further motion by Plaintiff or Order of this Court unless said Defendants, or persons acting on their behalf, shall, within thirty (30) days after service, procure the appointment of their own Guardian Ad Litem. Brock & Scott, PLLC 1400 Browning Road, Suite 160 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541 Attorneys for Plaintiff