NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE is hereby given pursuant to and by virtue of the authority vested in the Substitute Trustee, WV Trustee Services, LLC, by that certain Deed of Trust dated September 23, 2022, executed by Borrower(s), Bradley Garrett Tupper, to Andrew C. Skinner, the Trustee of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Mercer County, West Virginia, in Book 1447, at Page 589. At the time of the execution of the Deed of Trust, this property was reported to have a mailing address of 1152 Twelvemile Rd, Princeton, WV 24739. WV Trustee Services, LLC were appointed as Substitute Trustees by APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE dated June 4, 2026, of record in the Clerk's Office. The borrower(s) defaulted under the Note and Deed of Trust and the Substitute Trustees have been instructed to foreclose under the Deed of Trust. Accordingly, the Substitute Trustees will sell the following described property to the highest bidder at the front door of the Courthouse of Mercer County, in Princeton, West Virginia, on the following date:
16th day of July, 2026
at 12:10 p.m.
All that certain tract or parcel of land situate and being on the waters of Board Camp Branch, Beaver Pond District, Mercer County, West Virginia, as shown on a map, "showing lands of C.N. Kirby and Grace Carter on the Ingleside Road near Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia, May 11, 1962," and further bounded and described as follows:
"BEGINNING at a stake in the westerly right-of-way line of the Princeton-Ingleside Road, S. 75° 30' W. 236.0 ft. to a stake; thence S. 63° 00' W. 453.0 ft. to a stake; thence S. 10° E. 102.0 feet; thence S. 63' 00 min. W. 16.0 ft.; thence N. 10° W. 102.0 ft.; thence S. 63° 00" W. 1,030.0 ft. to a stake; thence N. 20° W. 437.0 ft. to a white oak; thence S. 46° 00' W. 1,369.25 feet to a stake in a fence; thence S. 64° 17' E. 184.42 ft. to a stake; thence, N. 66° 22' E. 148.33 ft. to a point in the westerly right-of-way line of the Princeton-Ingleside Road, at or near the present location of A.E.P. Co. Pole No. 35C-6, 5510; thence along and with the westerly right-of-way line of the Princeton-Ingleside Road, S. 26° E. 251.0 ft. more or less to a point in said right-of-way line; thence S. 50° E. 132.0 ft. to a point in said right-of-way line; S. 44° E. 66.0 ft. to a point in said right-of-way line; thence S. 35° 30' E. 172.0 ft. to a stake in said right-of-way line; thence S. 28° 00. E. min. 137.02 ft. to the point of BEGINNING, and containing 30.13/100 acres more or less,
There is excepted from the above conveyance the following parcel of property: BEGINNING at a 1/2 inch iron pipe set in the right of way line of Princeton-Ingleside Road, from which the southeast corner of the property described in Deed Book No. 390, at page 579 is S. 28° 12' E. 154.6 feet thence, through the property of Ethel M. Pennington and Parker P. Cline S. 65° 14' W. 145.95 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe, thence S. 82° 29' W. 259.67 feet to a fence post and 1/2 inch iron pipe; thence continuing through said property N. 1° 36' W. 129 feet to a fence post and 1/2 inch iron pipe; thence continuing through said property N. 75° 46' W. 247.1 feet to a fence post and 1/2 inch iron pipe; thence continuing through said property S. 59° 19' W. 1145.53 feet to a fence post and 1/2 inch iron pipe in the Bodell line; thence with the Bodell line N. 17° 12' W. 218.29 feet to a white oak stump and 2 white oak saplings where a white oak was called for; thence, N. 48° 36' E. 1366.53 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe; thence S. 65° 54' E. 182.67 feet to a 1/2 inch iron pipe; thence N. 61° 05' E. 148.78 feet to a Appalachian Power Company power pole # 35C-6, 551810 which said power pole was called for in Deed Book No. 390 at page 579; thence with the right of way of the Princeton-Ingleside Road S. 17° 08' E. 272.58 feet to a point in said right of way; thence S. 28° 25' E. 205.69 feet to a point In said right of way; thence S. 49° 25' E. 176.99 feet to a point in the right of way of said Princeton-Ingleside Road right of way; thence S. 38° 12' E. 79.8 feet to the BEGINNING, and containing 15.15 acres, more or less.
TERMS OF SALE:
1)The property will be conveyed in an "AS IS" physical condition by Deed containing no warranty, express or implied, subject to the Internal Revenue Service right of redemption, all property taxes, prior Deeds, liens, reservations, encumbrances, restrictions, rights-of-ways, easements, covenants, conveyances and conditions of record in the Clerk's office or affecting the subject property.
2)The Purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the transfer taxes imposed by the West Virginia Code § 11-22-1.
3)The Beneficiary and/or the Servicer of the Deed of Trust and Note reserve the right to submit a bid for the property at sale.
4)The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the subject property from time to time by written or oral proclamation, which continuance shall be in the sole discretion of the Trustee.
5)The Trustee shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the property to vacate said property, and any personal property and/or belongings remaining at the property after the foreclosure sale will be deemed to constitute ABANDONED PROPERTY AND WILL BE DISPOSED OF ACCORDINGLY.
6)The total purchase price is payable to the Trustee within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, with ten (10%) of the total purchase price payable to the Trustee at sale.
WV Trustee Services, LLC,
Substitute Trustee
BY: /s/Jim Ashley
Jim Ashley, Limited Signing Officer
WV Trustee Services, LLC
McGuire Office Center
618 Tenth Street, Suite 108
Huntington, WV 25701
(304) 853-3336
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