By Michael Belote, Esq., UTA California Lobbyist, California Advocates And so ends the worst collective year of our lives.  With the end of 2020 comes the end of the 2019-2020 two-year session of the California Legislature, and the beginning of the new, 2021-2022 session. With the fervent hope that better...

By Holly Chisa, HPC Advocacy, UTA Washington State Lobbyist As I’ve written about for the last several months, there are significant changes proposed for the Washington Foreclosure Fairness Act.  I want to provide you with an update as we continue with our negotiations on this issue.  The changes include expansion...

UTA’s Board of Directors has voted in the Association’s Officers for 2021. David Dutcher, Ben Levinson, Michelle Mierzwa and Tai Alailima all completed term limits from their positions as President, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. Randy Newman of Total Lender Solutions, based in San Diego, California will serve...

UTA members have four products to communicate their services to the membership in 2021. (1) Electronic Advertising, via the UTA eNews and/or the UTA website (2) the UTA Quarterly (3) the 2021 UTA Membership Directory (4) the 2021 Conference Program Book   Members who advertise electronically, and in the UTA...

Members – if you have a particular topic or speaker that you would like presented at the 46th Annual Education Conference Sessions, to be held November 7-9, 2021 in Reno, Nevada, now is your chance to let us know. UTA’s Conference Committee is asking for suggestions both from potential speakers...

  UTA’s Career Opportunities Page Has a New Listing – Trustee Sale Officer.  Check out the Career Opportunities Page.

If you are tired of the high cost of living in Southern California, a well- established Central Valley trustee firm is seeking a highly motivated, high integrity and dependable Trustee Sale Officer. The ideal candidate must have at least three years of experience in Deed of Trust and/or HOA defaults;...

UTA’s 45th Annual Educational Conference, held October 5th-8th virtually, received high reviews by participants. The Education sessions received positive reviews from members; –  On the ‘Default Servicing Economic Forecast’ session, sponsored by iMailTracking with Rick Sharga: “I loved this session. Rick was a terrific speaker – kept me entertained and provided a bunch of...

By Michael Belote, Esq., UTA California Lobbyist, California Advocates To residents of the world: this will get better. Infection rates ultimately will decline.  A vaccine will be developed and distributed. Herd immunity will be created.  Economies will bounce back. Until then, 2020 has been a year like no other, for...

By Holly Chisa, UTA Washington State Lobbyist, HPC Advocacy Discussions are ongoing about the future of the Foreclosure Fairness Act (FFA) as the number of NODs and NOTS fall and homeowners are not relying on the program to work out issues with their financial institution. No one argues that when...