UTA will be offering members two exciting social networking opportunities at the 42nd Annual Education Conference, held November 5-7th in Reno. On Sunday, November 5th, members may participate in a fun Bowling Tournament and/or a Poker Tournament. The Bowling Tournament, sponsored by Foreclosure Solutions, iMail Tracking, and ProVest will be held...
Daren Blomquist, Vice President at RealtyTrac, will provide provide data, macro trends and information coupled with analysis and forecast of the distressed market in the opening session of UTA’s 42nd Annual Conference. Mr. Blomquist will explain what it all means going forward for the nonjudicial foreclosure industry. The opening session...
Casper Rankin (Aldridge Pite), Glenn Wechsler (Law Offices of Glenn H. Wechsler), and Robert Forster III, Esq., (Barrett Daffin Frappier Turner & Engel), will lead a session entitled ‘Whose Money Is It Anyway? Navigating Through The Surplus Funds Maze’. With home values surging across the west, foreclosure auctions are resulting...
Dale Dykema, who started and ran TD Service Financial Corporation for over 50 years, passed on July 4, 2017, at age 87. He was a long-time member and supporter of California Trustee’s Association, which became United Trustee’s Association. First American Financial Corp. acquired TD Service Financial Corporation in October 2017. ...
By Martin T. McGuinn, Esq., Kirby & McGuinn, UTA Corporate Counsel Raymond A. Schep v Capital One, N.A. (Second District 6-26-17):This breaking news the trustee and lender have at least a qualified privilege to record foreclosure documents. The Court of Appeal framed the question on appeal as follows: Are a...
UTA requested that the California Court of Appeal order the publication of the court’s decision in R.E.F.S. Inc. v. G Gregory Williams, et al case. That request was denied. The R.E.F.S. Inc. decision provided clarity for trustees to make the distribution of surplus funds without incurring liability to the purchaser. ...
Forty-Five attendees learned some of the details – and some of the unresolved issues – of the new Nevada Foreclosure Mediation Program, in an informative and efficient presentation in San Diego from UTA’s Nevada Representatives, Michael R. Brooks and Ramir (‘Rami’) M. Hernandez, of Brooks Hubley. The event was sponsored...
UTA is offering a great way to get your conference registration comped. “For every two new voting members (who were NOT members in 2016) recruited between now and August 1st, the recruiting member’s 2017 Annual Educational Conference fees will be COMPED by the United Trustees Association” said Susan Pettem, UTA’s...
By Ramir Hernandez, Esq., Brooks Hubley On June 12, 2017, Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada signed SB 490, a bill that resurrects the previously scheduled to sunset Nevada foreclosure mediation program. The state’s original foreclosure mediation program was established in 2009 and administered by the Nevada Supreme Court. The new...
By Michael Belote, Esq., California Advocates, UTA California Representative For those even casually following California politics, the November 2016 general elections moved an already blue California to electric blue, neon blue, pretty much the bluest blue you can imagine. Both the California Senate and Assembly are now constituted with two-thirds...