PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE
THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:
DATE OF MORTGAGE: January 20, 2017
MORTGAGOR: A. Gordon Goude III, a single person
MORTGAGEE: Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union, a credit union organized under the laws of the United States of America
DATE AND PLACE OF RECORDING: Recorded February 8, 2017, in the office of the County Recorder, as Document No. A-525879, Freeborn County, Minnesota.
MORTGAGED PROPERTY ADDRESS: 10845 Main St, Gordonville, MN 56036
TAX PARCEL I.D. NOS. 020400190 and 020320180
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
Parcel 1:
Lots 5 and 10, Block 3, Gordonsville, Village, Shell Rock Township, excepting and reserving to the State of Minnesota, in trust for taxing districts concerned, all minerals and mineral rights, said real estate also being described as Lots 5 and 10, Block 3, in the village of Gordonsville, Minnesota, as the same is platted and recorded in the office of the County Recorder, Freeborn County, Minnesota.
Parcel 2:
Beginning at the Southwest Corner of the Village of Gordonsville, In Freeborn County, Minnesota, as the same is platted and recorded in the office of the Registered of Deeds in and for said County, thence East 18 rods thence South 9 rods thence West 18 rods, thence North 9 rods to place of beginning, being situated in the Northeast Quarter of Section Thirty-two (32), in Township One Hundred One (101) North, of Range Twenty (20), West of the 5th P.M., and lying and being in Freeborn County, Minnesota, as shown by instrument Recorded in Book 168 of Deeds, page 91, in the office of the County Recorder of Freeborn County, Minnesota.
COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Freeborn
ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $10,
800.00AMOUNT DUE AND CLAIMED TO BE DUE AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, PAID BY MORTGAGEE: $13,
997.21 INTEREST RATE AND PER DIEM: Current interest rate is 7.5%, with a daily per diem of $
2.50.
The person holding the Mortgage is not a transaction agent, as defined by Minn. Stat.
58.02, Subd. 30. The name of the residential mortgage servicer and lender or broker, as defined in Minn. Stat.
58.02 is: Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union.
That prior to commencement of this mortgage foreclosure proceeding Mortgagee complied with all notice requirements by statute; That no action or proceeding has been instituted at law or otherwise to recover the debt secured by said mortgage or any part thereof;
PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of said county as follows:
DATE AND TIME OF SALE: April 2, 2026, at 10:00 am.
PLACE OF SALE: Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office, Law Enforcement Center, 411 South Broadway, Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007, to pay the debt then secured by said Mortgage, taxes, if any, on said premises, and the costs and disbursements, including attorneys’ fees allowed by law subject to redemption within six (6) months from the date of said sale by the mortgagor(s), their personal representatives or assigns.
DATE AND TIME MORTGAGOR MUST VACATE THE PREMISES: October 2, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
“THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE (5) WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION
582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.”
Dated: February 2, 2026
AVISEN LEGAL P.A.
By: /s/ Creig Andreasen
Creig Andreasen (#334832)
901 Marquette Avenue South, Suite 1675
Minneapolis, MN 55402
612-416-2199
Attorney in Fact for
Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union
IMPORTANT NOTICE
This communication is from a debt collector and is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.
Albert Lea Tribune: Feb. 11, 18, 25, Mar. 4, 11 and 18, 2026
FC/GOUDE III