(SEAL) Commonwealth of Massachusetts Land Court Department Trial Court SUFFOLK, SS. CASE NO. 26 MISC 000573 (MDV) Cindy Chen v. Defendant Neighborhood Housing Services of America, Inc., et al. TO: any former stockholders, officers, creditors, and any other persons claiming any interest in Neighborhood Housing Services of America, Inc., a defunct California corporation with a former principal place of business in Oakland, California, or their heirs, devises, legal representatives, successors or assigns: The Plaintiff(s) has/have filed a Complaint with the Land Court in which you are named as an interested party. This Complaint may be examined at said Court in Boston, Massachusetts or online at www.masscourts.org. The Complaint concerns certain real property in East Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, being known as and numbered 3 Emmons Street. Plaintiff contends that title to the Property is clouded by a satisfied but improperly discharged mortgage of record. This action seeks to confirm the discharge of a prior-owner mortgage in Plaintiff's chain of title granted to Fleet Mortgage Corp., dated November 5, 1999, recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at Book 24385, Page 308 and later re- recorded as a Confirmatory Mortgage at Book 24585, Page 78. If you intend to make any defense, you are required to file an answer with the Land Court on or before the return day, December 7, 2026, and serve a copy upon the plaintiff's attorney, Lacey Brantley, Esq., First American Law Group, 250 First Avenue, Suite 104, Needham, MA 02494. If you fail to do so, judgment by default may be taken against you for relief demanded in the complaint. It is ORDERED that notice be given by publishing a copy of this notice once in The San Francisco Chronicle, a newspaper of general circulation in Oakland, California, at least thirty days before the return day, December 7, 2026. Witness, Gordon H. Piper, Chief Justice of the Land Court, the 22nd day of October 2026. Attest: /s/ Deborah J. Patterson Deborah J. Patterson Recorder