Washington House Bill 1349 was signed by the Governor on May 1, 2023. As previously reported, the Bill contains several provisions aimed at providing greater protections for borrowers and successors in interest in the non-judicial foreclosure process. Some of these provisions became effective immediately as of May 1, 2023. A...
UTA’s Dinner on Surplus Funds Fraud and Best Practices dinner event had 22 in-person attendees and 28 online registered attendees who participated via Zoom. The panel was Jonathan Fink, Esq., Wright Finlay & Zak; Edward A. Treder, Esq., Barrett Daffin Frappier Treder & Weiss, LLP; and John Steele, Esq., Steele,...
UTA will be holding a webinar in conjunction with NADP (formerly REOMAC). This one-hour webinar will begin with a fifteen-minute ‘state of the foreclosure market’, followed by a summary of the new ‘First Look Law’ in California on REO properties and the impact on the post-auction process. Topics covered will...
Members – Have you downloaded the 2023 Membership Directory? The directory references all members alphabetically by last name and alphabetically by company. Members’ states serviced are noted with their contact information. The directory also includes UTA members who are certified Trustee Sale Officers in California, Nevada, Washington, and Arizona. If...
Members: If you have an article on a topic of relevance that you’d like your UTA colleagues to see, please send them rmeyers@unitedtrustees.com The provided articles should be approved for publication in UTA Quarterly by the author and should be relevant to the practice of nonjudicial foreclosures – not articles...
Please welcome the following members to UTA! – Shannon Baker, Trustee Corps, Irvine, CA – Rosenda Cardenas, Trustee Corps, Irvine, CA – Krys Delk, Steele, LLP – Christina Khil, Esq., Malcolm Cisneros, Irvine, CA – Shannon Williams, Esq., Ghidotti Berger, Santa Ana, CA
UTA’s Job Board has a new position available. If you want to post a job, just send us the employment description and the contact for prospective applicants, and we’ll post it on our jobs board and remind members that new job openings are available. Email your information to rmeyers@unitedtrustees.com.
By Michael Belote, Esq., California Advocates, UTA California Lobbyist In the last issue of UTA News, we talked about the major changes taking place in the California Legislature, including 31 new faces coming out of the November elections, new committee chairs, a new Speaker of the Assembly coming in a...
By Holly Chisa, HPC Advocacy, UTA Washington State Lobbyist March 8 represents an important cut off date for the Washington Legislature. Bills must move from the House to the Senate or the Senate to the House by March 8 to be considered further – unless they impact the budget or...
73 UTA members attended a webinar held last month on ‘Changes To The Post-Auction Upset Bid Process: Implementing AB 1837’. The webinar was led by UTA’s Legislative Committee Co-Chairs, Michelle Mierzwa, Esq., Wright Finlay & Zak and Andrew Boylan, Esq., McCarthy& Holthus, LLP. The webinar addressed what trustees should red...