Agreement to Bid

I, the undersigned, in consideration of the United States Government offering for public sale the property described below, agree to bid at least the amount of $335,000.00 for the property if offered for sale within 120 days from the date of this agreement.  

Property Description:  See Exhibit A

Street Address:  146 Second Street, Sugar Land, Texas  77479

I authorize the enclosed deposit of $67,000.00 to be applied against the sale price if I am the successful bidder.

I further understand and agree that if I do not bid at least the amount specified in this agreement to bid and the property is not sold within the time specified above for at least such amount, my deposit will be retained pending final determination of the damages sustained by the Government because of the default.  If damages exceed the amount of the deposit, I will be liable for the excess damages.

  

I understand that the Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, and to withdraw the property from sale.

     

Name (print)__________________________________

 

Address _____________________________________

 

City, State, Zip ________________________________

 

Telephone No._________________________________

 

Date_________________________________________

 

Signature_____________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

Tract 1:

 

0.145 acres of land out of the Imperial Sugar Company’s Sugar Land Townsite Tract in S. N. Williams League, Abstract No. 97, Fort Bend County, Texas, and being the same land described in a deed from Imperial Sugar Company to Arthur Rushing and wife, Emma L. Rushing recorded in Volume 394, Page 556 of the Deed Records of Fort Bend County, Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:

 

For Connection Begin at an iron pipe that is a Southerly Northwest corner of the Sugar Land School Property and is South 11 deg. 45’ East 25.0 feet from the centerline of Second Street and being the Northeast corner of and PLACE OF BEGINNING for this tract, said pipe is South 12,858.33 feet and West 2,787.27 feet from the Northwest corner of the Brown & Belknap League, Abstract 15, Fort Bend County, Texas.

 

THENCE:  South 11 deg. 45’ East, with the West line of Sugar Land School Tract, at 108.65 feet pass the North line of a 10 foot easement, in all 118.65 feet to an iron pipe for the Southeast corner;

 

THENCE:  South 78 deg. 14’ 10” West, with the South line of said easement, at 5 feet pass the West line of a 5 foot easement, in all 53.3 feet to an iron pipe for the Southwest corner;

 

THENCE:  North 11 deg. 45’ 50” West, at 10 feet pass the North line of said easement, in all 118.65 feet to an iron pipe for the Northwest corner, said corner being in the South right-of-way line of Second Street and being 25.0 feet distant from its centerline;

THENCE:  North 78 deg. 14’ 10” East, with the South right-of-way line of said street, at 48.4 feet pass the West line of a 5 foot easement, in all 53.4 feet to the PLACE OF BEGINNING.

 

TRACT 2:

 

A 3,092.05 square foot (0.071 acres) tract out of the Sugarland Independent School District 4.68 acre tract (Volume 83, Page 88 of the Deed Records), in the S. M. Williams League, Abstract 97 in the City of Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas:

 

BEGIN at an iron pipe set marking the Southerly Northwest corner of said 4.68 acre tract, said corner being the North corner of the Arthur Rushing 0.145 acre tract (Volume 394, Page 556 of the Deed Records) and being the Northwest corner of and PLACE OF BEGINNING for the 0.071 acre tract;

 

THENCE North 78 deg. 15’ East 61.72 feet along the South line of Second Street (50 feet wide) to an iron pipe set for the Northeast corner of this tract;

 

THENCE South 33 deg. 14’ 10” West 6.27 feet along the West line of a proposed street to an iron pipe set for the point of a curve;

 

THENCE Southerly along a curve to the left marking the West line of said street with the following data:  Delta = 45 deg. 00’, Radius = 161.49 feet, Length = 126.83 feet, Tangent = 66.89 deg., Chord = South 10 deg. 45’ West, 123.60 feet to an iron pipe set for the Southeast corner of this tract;

 

THENCE South 78 deg. 14’ 10” West 10.0 feet along said street to an iron pipe set for the Southwest corner of this tract; said corner being the Southeast corner of said Arthur Rushing Tract;

THENCE North 11 deg. 45’ West 118.65 feet along the East line of said Rushing tract and East line of a 5 foot utility easement and along the West line of a 15 foot utility easement to the PLACE OF BEGINNING and containing 0.071 acre tract of land.  More or less.