NOTICE OF ACCELERATION AND NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Assert and protect your rights as a member of the armed forces of the United States. If you are or your spouse is serving on active military duty, including active military duty as a member of the Texas National Guard or the National Guard of another state or as a member of a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, please send written notice of the active duty military service to the sender of this notice immediately. DEED OF TRUST INFORMATION: Date: September 7, 2005 Grantor(s): Kraig Leith Kunkel, a single man Original Option One Mortgage Corporation Mortgagee: Original Principal: $100,000.00 Recording D205285279 Information: Property County: Tarrant Property: Lot 15, Block D, NORTHRIDGE ITION; SECTION, to the City of Mansfield, in Tarrant County, Tex cording to Plat recorded in Volume 388- 217, Page 37, Plat Records, Tarra Texas. Property Address: 1008 Blue Jay Drive Mansfield, TX 76063 The Mortgage Servicer, if not the Cupfent a Mortgage Servicing Agreement. Current Mortgagee: Mortgage Servicer: Mortgage Servicer Address: September 1, 2026 10:00 AM or within three hours thereafter. Tarrant County Courthouse, 100 West Weatherford Street, Fort Worth, TX 76196 ot, if the preceding area is no longer the designated area, at the area most recently designated by the County Commissioner’s Court. Substitute Auction.com, LLC, and Padgett Law Group, any to act Trustee: Substitute 546 Silicon Dr, Suite 103, Southlake, TX 76092 ; Trustee Address: FILED JUL 30 2026 RTS 3282 COUNTY CLERK, TARRANT CO. TEXAS PLG File Number: 26-008436-1 BY EPUTY 1 P226014161 . Page 2 of 3 . . APPOINTMENT OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: THIS INSTRUMENT APPOINTS THE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE(S) IDENTIFIED TO SELL THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE SECURITY INSTRUMENT IDENTIFIED IN THIS NOTICE OF SALE THE PERSON SIGNING THIS NOTICE IS THE ATTORNEY OR AUTHORIZED AGENT OF THE MORTGAGEE OR MORTGAGE SERVICER. The undersigned is the attorney for the mortgagee and/or mortgage servicer, and in such capacity does hereby remove the original trustee and all successor substitute trustees under the above-described Deed of Trust and appoints in their place, any to act, those substitute trustees identified in the SALE INFORMATION section WHEREAS, a default under the Note and Deed of Trust was decd a WHEREAS, the original Trustee and any previously appointé Trust has been hereby removed and the herein described Substitute Trt Trustees and authorized by the Mortgage Servicer to enforce the WHEREAS, the undersigned law firm has been rea Current Mortgagee, Mortgage Servicer and Substitute Trustees; 2. The herein appointed Sub stees? a the highest bidder for casf Cea) i i the Sale Information sé ig hotice’ The sale will begin within three hours after that time. 2 nent Network (“FinCEN”), a bureau of the U.S. Department of non-financed transfers pfoperty to legal entities and/or trusts, which such information the successful bidgeé ®, expected to provide to the auctioneer at the time of the subject sale. Interested bifidé fy questions regarding the necessary information to be provided are hereby directed, generat inCEN’s website and, more specifically to the FinCEN Real Estate Report located in thaje Wank thereof. i ke subject to any legal impediments to the sale of the Property to any exceptions arranties, express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of antability and fitness for the particular purpose shall be conveyed at the sale, save and except e-Grantor’s warranties specifically authorized by the Grantor in the Deed of Trust. The property shall be sold “AS-IS”, purchaser’s will buy the property “at the purchaser’s own risk” and “at his peril” and no representation is made concerning the quality or nature of title to be acquired. Purchasers will receive whatever interest Grantor and Grantor’s assigns have in the property, subject to any liens or interest of any kind that may survive the sale. Interested persons are encouraged to consult counsel of their choice prior to participating in the sale of the property. 6. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of PLG File Number: 26-008436-1 FILED 2 UL 30 9k COUNTY CLERK, TARRANT CO, TECS BY. P226014161 Page 3 of 3 ec a the funds paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Mortgagee’s Attorney, or the duly appointed Substitute Trustee. Vno- Padgett Law Group, LLC CERTIFICATE OF POSTING My name is Donna Stockman , and my address is c/o Padgett Law G Silicon Dr., Suite 103, Southlake, TX 76092. I declare under penalty of perjury that on 7/30/26 Declarant’s Name: 7/30/26 Date: Padgett Law Group 546 Silicon Dr., Suite 103, Southlake, TX 76092 (850) 422-2520 WITNESS MY HAND this_ 30th day of ___J " 2026 . FILED PLG File Number: 26-008436-1 JUL 30 2026 3 COUNTY CLERK, TARRANT CO, TEXAS ay