Speed Networking Session Added to Conference Program

Speed Networking has been added to the UTA Conference Agenda. The session will be held from 8:15 am – 9:00 am in the exhibit hall during breakfast on Monday morning, November 7th. Groups of four will meet for six minutes and then quickly be re-assigned to a new ‘hi-top’. It’s...

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UTA’s California Basic Trustee Certification Class Offered

UTA’s California Basic Trustee Certification Class is Offered Sunday, November 7th at the 46th Annual Conference in Reno. The Basic Foreclosure Certification Course Syllabus includes: Outline of state foreclosure procedures; Monetary and non-monetary defaults; Judicial v. nonjudicial foreclosures; What a Lender provides to the Trustee; What a Trustee does; Notice...

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UTA Silent Auction Prizes Load Up

Bring your checkbooks and credit cards to the UTA Conference and start your holiday shopping early. We’ll have amazing items for bid – including the latest electronic products, jewelry, purses, and sports tickets – with values ranging from $100 to $300 per item. Most items are sold for half of...

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Ten New Members Join UTA

Please welcome the following ten new members to UTA: – Greg DeCastro, Auction.com, Irvine, CA – Elli Djamas, Beacon Default Management, Agoura Hills, CA – Arlene Fontes, Chicago Title Company, Fresno, CA – Arminda Gomez-Reza, Independent Foreclosure Services, South Pasadena, CA – Helen Hinkle, All Points Property Services, Inc., Apple...

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UTA’s Amendments to SB 1079 Signed Into Law

As highlighted in the recently distributed UTA Quarterly and this issue of the UTA eNews, thanks to our hard-working California lobbyist Michael Belote, Esq. – with bill language support from Andrew Boylan and Michelle Mierzwa – we were able to get some clean-up language added to address some of the...

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SB 1079 Clean-Up On Horizon

By Michael Belote, Esq., California Advocates, UTA California Lobbyist To call 2021 an unusual year in the Sacramento Capitol is like calling World War II the recent unpleasantness in Europe.  As this column is written, only a week remains before voting closes in the Gavin Newsom recall election.  That means...

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Prepping for the 2022 Legislative Session in 2021

By Holly Chisa, HPC Advocacy, UTA Washington State Lobbyist For many of us that work in Washington, I’m sure there was hope that we wouldn’t see the likes of the 2021 Washington legislative session again.  Major policy decisions were made without in-person access.  Only Zoom meetings with lawmakers to explain...

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Twelve Members on Ballot For Board of Directors

UTA President Randy Newman and UTA Nomination Committee Chair Tai Alailima have announced that twelve members will appear on the ballot for the five seats that are up for election to the UTA Board of Directors.  Only “Regular” members have voting privileges. Terms for each of the Directorships are for...

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