Section 48-10-11 - Notice of trustee's sale. - New Mexico Statutes

48-10-11. Notice of trustee's sale.

A.     The trustee shall give written notice of the time and place of sale, legally describing the trust real estate to be sold, by each of the following methods: 

(1)     publication of the notice as provided by law for foreclosure of mortgages on real estate; 

(2)     recording of the notice in the office of the clerk of each county in which the trust real estate is situated; and 

(3)     giving notice as provided in  Section 48-10-12 NMSA 1978 to the extent applicable.  

B.     The sale shall be held at the time and place designated in the notice of sale on a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday and at the time provided by law for the foreclosure sale of real estate under real estate mortgages on the front steps of the courthouse of the county in which the trust real estate is located.  If the trust real estate is located in more than one county, the sale may be held in any county in which part of the trust real estate is located.  

C.     The notice of sale shall contain the street address, if any, or identifiable location as well as the legal description of the trust real estate.  Failure to accurately describe within the notice either the street address or the identifiable location of the trust real estate to be sold shall not be grounds for invalidating the sale if the correct legal description of the trust real estate to be sold was contained in the notice of sale.  The notice of sale shall be sufficient if made in substantially the following form: 

   "NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE  

 

     The following legally described trust real estate 

     will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale as 

     provided in the deed of trust recorded in book 

     _______________ at page _______, 

     ___________________ County, New Mexico, records, at 

     public auction to the highest bidder on the front 

     steps of the county courthouse in 

     _____________________ County, New Mexico, in or 

     near _____________________________, New Mexico, on 

     _________________, 20____, at ______________ 

     o'clock ___m. of that day:                                    

     (street address, if any, or identifiable location                                    

     of trust real estate and legal description of                                    

     trust real estate)  

 

     Dated this ____________ day of 

     ____________________, 20_____. 

     _________________________     ________________________           

     (Name of Trustor)      (Name of Trustee)

     ________________________________ 

     Signature  

     (Here add Acknowledgment).".