United States of America v. Ohnemus
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OPINION re 10 Default Judgment. Entered by Judge Richard Mills on 8/6/2013. (CT, ilcd)
E-FILED
Tuesday, 06 August, 2013 10:25:42 AM
Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
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Plaintiff,
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TINA M. OHNEMUS,
Defendant.
OPINION
Richard Mills, U.S. District Judge:
The Court now considers Plaintiff United States of America's Motion to Enter Judgment
(d/e 6) (hereinafter the "Motion"). Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 55, 28 U.S.C.
§ 2001, and for the reasons stated below, the Motion is ALLOWED. In connection with its
decision, the Court has considered all of the pleadings and evidence submitted to date. Based
thereon, the court makes these FINDINGS:
I. JURISDICTION
The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter and parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
§§ 1345 and 1391, respectively. The defendant,Tina M. Ohnemus, was personally served with
Summons and Complaint by the United States Marshal on May 2, 2013, and did not thereafter
voluntarily appear in these proceedings.
II. EVIDENTIARY FINDINGS
1. Defendant Tina M. Ohnemus executed a mortgage, attached as Exhibit A to the
complaint, dated October 14, 2009, and on the same day she executed a note (attached to the
complaint as Exhibit B), in the amount of $110,444.00 secured by said mortgage. The UNITED
Exhibit E
STATES OF AMERICA, acting through the RURAL DEVELOPMENT, UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, was the mortgagee on said mortgage executed by said
defendant as mortgagor. Said mortgage pertaining to the property described herein was recorded
on October 14, 2009, commencing at Page 12636 of Book 709, as Document No. 200237833, in
the Office of the Adams County, Illinois, Recorder.
2. The material factual allegations stated in the complaint filed herein have not been
denied in any responsive pleading.
3. Plaintiff is the owner of the note and mortgage described in said complaint.
4. Plaintiff moved the court to enter a Default Judgment of Foreclosure in this cause and
has filed with said Motion an Affidavit of Costs by Julie K. Wilson, Acting State Director, Rural
Development. That pleading and Affidavit stated that as of June 27, 2013, Plaintiff was owed
(via a Note and Mortgage hereinafter described) the sum of $137,961.05, plus a daily per diem
accrual of $17.2935 thereafter to date of judgment and no objection being made to said Motion or
Affidavit of said Motion, said motion is allowed and the Affidavit is admitted into evidence in
this cause.
5. Tina M. Ohnemus may have claimed an interest in the above-described property, but is
foreclosed from asserting her claim, if any, because of her default in this action.
6. All of the material allegations contained in the complaint are true and that by virtue of
the mortgage and indebtedness thereby secured, the plaintiff, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
has a valid and subsisting lien arising out of a real estate mortgage on the property described as
follows:
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A part of the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼) of Section Eighteen (18)
in Township One (1) North of the Base Line and in Range Eight(8)
West of the Fourth Principal Meridian, bounded and described as
follows:
Beginning Forty-six (46) rods West of the Northeast corner of the
Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) and running South Sixteen (16) rods,
Nine (9) feet, Four (4) inches, thence West Eight (8) rods, Two and
One-Half feet (2-1/2) feet, thence North Sixteen (16) rods, Nine (9)
feet, Four (4) inches, thence East Eight (8) rods, Two and One-Half
(2-1/2) feet to the place of beginning, situated in the County of
Adams, in the State of Illinois
PIN No. 09-0-1252-000-00
7. That by virtue of the mortgage and the indebtedness thereby secured, as alleged in the
complaint, there is due the plaintiff, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as follows:
a)
For its own use and benefit for the costs of this suit and for:
U.S. Attorney's Docket Fee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $350.00
U.S. Marshals' Costs for Service of Summons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $346.56
Recording Notice of a Suit to Foreclose Mortgage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $35.00
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $731.56
b) Unpaid principal and interest:
Unpaid principal balance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $119,440.47
Accrued interest at $17.2935 per day
due and unpaid as of June 27, 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,667.79
Late charges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $116.00
Fees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,801.39
Interest on fees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $203.84
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Total amount due plaintiff as of June 27, 2013,
exclusive of foreclosure costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $137,229.49
c) In addition, Plaintiff may be compelled to advance various sums of money in
payment of costs, fees, expenses and disbursements incurred in connection with
the foreclosure, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, filing
fees, stenographer's fees, witness fees, costs of publication, costs of procuring and
preparing documentary evidence and costs of procuring abstracts of title,
certificates, foreclosure minutes, a title insurance policy and fees, charges, and
expenses provided by law incurred by or owing to the United States Marshal,
including such fees and expenses relating to conducting of the judicial sale as
required by this judgment of foreclosure.
d) Under the terms of the mortgage, all such advances, costs and other fees,
expenses and disbursements are made a lien upon the mortgaged real estate and
the plaintiff is entitled to recover all such advances, costs, expenses and
disbursements, together with interest on all advances at the rate provided in the
mortgage, or, if no rate, from the date on which such advances are made.
e) In order to protect the lien of the mortgage, Plaintiff may necessarily have to
pay taxes and assessments which have been or may be levied upon the mortgaged
real estate.
f) In order to protect and preserve the mortgaged real estate, Plaintiff may have to
make such repairs to the real estate as may reasonably be deemed necessary for
the proper preservation thereof.
g) Under the terms of the mortgage, any money so paid or expended has or will
become an additional indebtedness secured by the mortgage and will bear interest
from the date such monies are advanced at the rate provided in the mortgage, or, if
no rate is provided, at the statutory judgment rate.
8. The present owner of the above-described real estate is Tina M. Ohnemus.
9. Adams County, Illinois, has a valid lien on the above-described property for taxes for
the years 2012 and 2013, and the property will be sold subject to the interest of Adams County,
resulting from taxes, general or special, which are a valid lien against the above-described
property.
10. The above-described property is abandoned and Plaintiff is entitled to a shortened
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redemption period pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/15-1603.
11. The premises which are the subject of this proceeding are valuable, and unless the
purchaser, as Plaintiff’s assignee, is placed in immediate possession during the 30-day period
following the confirmation of the Report of Sale of Real Estate, the premises would be subject to
vandalism, waste, loss and possible destruction.
12. By reason of the defaults alleged and proved, if the indebtedness had not matured by
its terms, the same became due by the exercise, by the Plaintiff or other persons having such
power, of a right or power to declare immediately due and payable the whole of all indebtedness
secured by the mortgage.
13. Any and all notices of default or election to declare the indebtedness due and payable
or other notices required to be given have been duly and properly given.
14. Any and all periods of grace or other period of time allowed for the performance of
the covenants or conditions claimed to be breached or for the curing of any breaches have
expired.
15. All lien or mortgage claimants defaulted are found and declared to have no interest in
the real estate foreclosed, as they have offered no evidence of said interest.
16. Said real estate is free and clear of all liens and encumbrances except:
a) General real estate taxes for the years 2012 and 2013, and thereafter and
special assessments, if any.
b) Said mortgage given to Plaintiff.
c) Easements and restrictions of record.
17. Plaintiff's mortgage is prior and superior to all other mortgages, claims of interest and
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liens upon the real estate except for real estate taxes and special assessments, if any, and except
for any mortgages or liens found herein to be prior and superior to plaintiff's mortgage or prior
liens of non-parties.
WHEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED:
III. ORDER UPON DEEMED REQUEST FOR FORECLOSURE
1. An accounting has been taken under the direction of the court of the amounts due and
owing to the Plaintiff as declared herein.
2. Defendant is ordered to pay to the Plaintiff before expiration of any redemption period
(or, if no redemption period, within seven days after the date of this judgment) whatever sums
may appear to be due upon the taking of such account, together with fees and costs of the
proceedings (to the extent provided in the mortgage or by law).
3. In default of such payment in accordance with this judgment, the mortgaged real estate
shall be sold as directed by the court, to satisfy the amount due to the Plaintiff as set forth in this
judgment, together with the interest thereon at the statutory judgment rate from the date of the
judgment.
4. In the event the Plaintiff is a purchaser of the mortgaged real estate at such sale, the
Plaintiff may offset against the purchase price of such real estate the amounts due under the
judgment for the foreclosure and order confirming the sale.
5. In the event of such sale and the failure of the person entitled thereto to redeem prior
to such sale pursuant to statutory provisions, the defendant made party to the foreclosure in
accordance with statutory provisions, and all non-record claimants given notice of the foreclosure
in accordance with statutory provisions, and all persons claiming by, through or under them, and
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each and any and all of them, shall be forever barred and foreclosed of any right, title, interest,
claim, lien or right to redeem in and to the mortgaged real estate.
6. If no redemption is made prior to such sale, a deed shall be issued to the purchaser
according to law and such purchaser shall be let into possession of the mortgaged real estate in
accordance with statutory provisions.
IV. ORDER UPON SPECIAL MATTERS
1. Exceptions to which title in the real estate shall be subject at the sale shall include
general real estate taxes for the current year and for the preceding year which have not become
due and payable as of the date of this judgment and any special assessments upon the real estate
and easements and restrictions of record.
2. In the event any party to this foreclosure is a successful bidder at the sale, such party
may offset against the purchase price to be paid for such real estate all amounts due such party
under this judgment of foreclosure or the order confirming the sale.
3. Said property is being sold at this judicial sale “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTIES OF HABITABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED.
V. ORDER FOR JUDICIAL SALE
1. The real estate is ordered sold in accordance with the statutory provision by the U. S.
Marshal or his representative.
2. Upon expiration of the redemption period, the real estate shall be sold by the U. S.
Marshal for the Central District of Illinois at the front door of the Adams County Courthouse in
the City of Quincy, Illinois, at the time announced by the U. S. Marshal subject to easements and
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restrictions of record and taxes, general or special, due and owing to Adams County, Illinois, in
addition to the real estate transfer tax (35 ILCS 200/31-1, et. seq.), shall be paid by buyer(s).
Said property shall be sold to the highest bidder who shall pay ten percent (10%) of the bid
purchase price at the time and place of sale by Cashier's/Official Bank Check or Money Order
made payable to the U. S. Marshals Service, tendered to the U.S. Marshal conducting the sale.
The balance of the bid purchase price shall be paid by Cashier's/Official Bank Check or Money
Order made payable to U.S. Marshals Service, to be received by the United States Marshal at 201
S. Vine, Urbana, Illinois 61802 within thirty (30) days of date of said sale. If the balance is not
received within said time period, the ten percent (10%) payment made at time of sale shall be
forfeited to the United States, the sale shall be void, and a new sale shall be scheduled by the
Court.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the U.S. Marshal for
the Central District of Illinois give public notice of the sale as follows:
a) The notice of sale shall include the following information, but an immaterial
error in the information shall not invalidate the legal effect of the notice:
i) The name, address and telephone number of the person to contact for
information regarding the real estate;
ii) The common address and other common description (other than legal
description), if any, of the real estate;
iii) A legal description of the real estate sufficient to identify it with
reasonable certainty;
iv) A description of the improvements on the real estate;
v) The real estate may be inspected prior to sale upon making reasonable
arrangements with the person identified in paragraph i above;
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vi) The time and place of the sale;
vii) The terms of the sale;
viii) The case title, case number and the court in which the foreclosure
was filed; and
ix) No other information is required.
b) The notice of sale shall be published at least four consecutive calendar weeks
(Sunday through Saturday), once in each week, the first such notice to be
published not more than 45 days prior to the sale, the last such notice to be
published not less than 7 days prior to the sale, by:
i) An advertisement in a newspaper regularly issued and of general
circulation to the general public in the county in which the real estate is
located in the section of that newspaper where legal notices are commonly
placed; and
ii) No other publication shall be required.
c) The party who gives notice of public sale shall also give notice to all other
parties in the action who have not heretofore been found by the court to be in
default for failure to plead. Such notice shall be given in the manner provided in
the applicable rules of court for service of papers other than process and
complaint, not more than 45 days and not less than seven days prior to the day of
sale. After notice is given as required in this section, a copy thereof shall be filed
in the Office of the Clerk of this Court together with a certificate of counsel or
other proof that notice has been served in compliance with this section.
d) The party who gives notice of a public sale shall again give notice of any
adjourned sale; provided, however, that if the adjourned sale is to occur less than
60 days after the last scheduled sale, notice of any adjourned sale need be given
only once, not less than 5 days prior to the day of the adjourned sale.
e) Notice of the sale may be given prior to the expiration of the redemption
period.
f) No other notice by publication or posting shall be necessary.
g) The person named in the notice of sale to be contacted for information about
the real estate shall not be required to provide additional information other than
that set forth in the notice of sale.
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3. Division of Property. If the real estate is susceptible of division, the person
conducting the sale may order it to be sold as necessary to satisfy this judgment. The person
conducting the sale shall determine which real estate shall be sold, and the person conducting the
sale may determine the order in which separate tracts may be sold.
4. Certificate of Sale. Upon the sale of mortgaged real estate, the person conducting the
sale shall give a certificate of sale to the purchaser and cause such certificate of sale to be
recorded. The certificate shall be freely assignable by endorsement thereon.
VI. TRANSFER OF TITLE
1. Upon or after confirmation of sale, the person who conducted the sale or the court
shall execute a deed to the holder of the certificate of sale sufficient to convey title, which deed
shall identify the court and the caption of the case in which judgment was entered authorizing
issuance of the deed. Signature and the recital in the deed of the title or authority of the person
signing the deed as grantor of authority pursuant to this judgment and of the giving of the notices
required by statute shall be sufficient proof of the facts recited and of such authority to execute
the deed, but such deed shall not be construed to contain any covenant on the part of the person
executing it.
2. Delivery of the deed executed on the sale of the real estate, even if the purchaser or
holder of the certificate of sale is a party to the foreclosure, shall be sufficient to pass the title
thereto. Such conveyance shall be an entire bar of (i) all claims of parties to the foreclosure and
(ii) all claims of any non-record claimant who is given notice of the foreclosure as provided by
statute.
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VII. APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS
The proceeds resulting from the sale ordered herein shall be applied in the following
order:
1. The reasonable expenses of sale including but not limited to costs of publication,
notice of said sale, expenses, fees, and commissions incurred by or owing to the U.S. Marshal
pursuant to law;
2. The reasonable expenses of securing possession before sale, holding, maintaining, and
preparing the real estate for sale, including payment of taxes and other governmental charges,
management fees, and to the extent provided for in the mortgage or other recorded agreement and
not prohibited by law, payments made pursuant to Illinois Compiled Statutes, Ch. 735, Section
5/15-1505, and other legal expenses incurred by the mortgagee;
3. Satisfaction of claims in the order of priority adjudicated in this judgment of
foreclosure; and
4. Remittance of any surplus to the mortgagor or as otherwise directed by the court.
VIII. REDEMPTION - RESIDENTIAL
1. Only the owner of redemption may redeem from this foreclosure, and such owner of
redemption may redeem only during the redemption period specified herein.
2. In this foreclosure the above-described property is abandoned and Plaintiff is entitled
to a shortened redemption period pursuant to Chapter 735, Paragraph 5/15-1603(b)(4), Illinois
Compiled Statutes. The redemption period shall end 30 days after the date of entry of this
Judgment.
3. This is a foreclosure of a mortgage of residential real estate.
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4. The amount required to redeem shall consist of the Total Balance Due as declared
above plus interest thereon at the statutory rate hereafter and all additional costs and other
expenses allowed by the court.
5. If the purchaser at the judicial sale of residential real estate is a mortgagee who is a
party to this proceeding or its nominee, and if the sale price is less than the amount required to
redeem specified in 735 ILCS 5/15-1603(d), an owner of redemption has a special right to
redeem for a period ending 30 days after the date the sale is confirmed, by paying the mortgagee
the sale price plus all additional costs and expenses incurred by the mortgagee set forth in the
report of sale and confirmed by this Court.
IX. OTHER MATTERS
1. Possession of Mortgaged Real Estate:
A. Unless the mortgagor’s right to possess this foreclosed residential real estate
is or has been terminated, the mortgagor (homeowner) has the right to possess the foreclosed
premises in accordance with Section 15-1701(c) of the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law.
B. Unless sooner ordered to vacate the premises, the mortgagor and all persons
claiming a possessory right to said mortgaged premises through said mortgagor shall peaceably
remove themselves and all of their possessions from the mortgaged premises in compliance with
735 ILCS 5/15-1701 on the 31st day after the judicial sale of this mortgaged property has been
approved.
C. If any persons referenced in the above subparagraph remain on said premises on or
after the 31st day of the approval of the judicial sale of this mortgaged real estate, the U.S.
Marshal is hereby directed as soon as practicable thereafter to use any and all necessary
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reasonable force to enter the above described mortgaged premises, including any outbuildings
and vehicles located thereon and to remove all occupants located thereon, who are present on the
premises and refuse to vacate immediately and voluntarily at the U.S. Marshal’s direction; in
addition any and all personal property left on the mortgaged premises by the defendant mortgagor
and/or any and all other persons having left said property, is hereby declared forfeited to the
United States. If the U.S. Marshal determines that the above-described personal property is
without value or of di minimus value that would neither exceed nor equal the costs of notice,
storage, and sale, the U.S. Marshal may leave the personal property, at his discretion, on the
premises for the purchaser of this real estate to claim, or dispose of, at will.
Upon taking possession and custody of the premises, and removing all occupants who are
unauthorized to remain on the premises, the U.S. Marshal is then hereby directed to remit
possession and custody of the premises to the purchaser of said property at the sale judicially
approved by this Court.
2. Report of Sale. The person conducting the sale shall file a report of sale with the
Clerk of this Court specifying the amount of proceeds of sale realized and the disposition thereof.
3. The purchaser of the foreclosed property shall be given possession effective
immediately upon approval of the judicial sale of this real estate in compliance with 735 ILCS
5/15-1701(c) (1).
4. Homestead Waiver. Defendant-mortgagor waived her right to homestead or other
exemptions in said real estate in the body of said mortgage, which was duly signed and
acknowledged, and said defendant-mortgagors is therefore barred from claiming any right to
homestead or other exemptions in said real estate.
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5. Deficiency. If the money arising from said sale shall be insufficient to pay the
amounts due to plaintiff with interest and the costs and expenses of sale, the person conducting
the sale shall specify the amount of such deficiency in the report of sale, and a judgment shall be
entered therefore, if appropriate.
AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that there is no just
reason for delaying the enforcement of this judgment, or an appeal therefrom.
August 6, 2013
ENTER: __________________
FOR THE COURT:
s/Richard Mills
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RICHARD MILLS
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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