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PURSUANT TO the terms and provisions of NCGS 160A-269 Yancey County has received an offer to purchase those lands located in Yancey County, North Carolina, more particularly described as follows:

BEING those 2 tracts of land located in the Town of Burnsville, Burnsville Township, Yancey County, North Carolina, more particularly described in a deed dated 17 January, 1978 from the Blue Ridge Hospital System, Inc. to Yancey County, recorded at Yancey County Deed Book 171, Page 167, to which reference is hereby made as if incorporated herein, so as to include, without limitation, those lands commonly known as “The Old Yancey Hospital”.

The Yancey County Board of County Commissioners may accept said offer. Pursuant to the above referenced statute Yancey County is now publishing notice of said offer, which said offer has been accompanied with a deposit in the amount of $2,837.16, which said deposit has been made with Yancey County.

The real property which is subject to the offer is that property more particularly described herein above.

The amount of the offer made for the purchase of the said property is $56,743.22 cash or certified funds, pursuant to the terms of an Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Real Property, a copy of which is on file with, and may be obtained from, the Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners for Yancey County.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that within ten (10) days of the date of this publication any person may raise the bid price by not less than 10% of the first $1,000.00 of the original bid price of $56,743.22 and 5% of the remainder.  If the bid is raised the bidder shall deposit with the Clerk to the Board of the Yancey County Board of County Commissioners 5% of the increased bid and the said Clerk shall re-advertise the offer at the increased bid amount.  This procedure shall be repeated until no further qualifying upset bids are received, at which time the Yancey County Board of County Commissioners may accept the offer and sell the property to the highest bidder, or may at any time reject any and all offers including this offer.

This the 26th  day of June, 2019.

Sonya Morgan /s/
Clerk to the Yancey County Board of County Commissioners