Tina Suihkonen, currently serving as President of Beacon Default Management, has been appointed by UTA President Joyce Copeland to the Board of Directors.

Long-time UTA Member John Babigian has died. UTA will honor John’s memory with an award presentation at the 39th Annual Conference in La Quinta, California. John served as Vice President of Metropolitan News Company from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Prior to that, he worked for 27 years with...

UTA’s Dallas Dinner will be held July 30th at the Embassy Suites Dallas – DFW International Airport North. California, Nevada and Texas HOA lien foreclosures will be discussed.Register Now.

Members – Don’t forget that UTA has a Job Board where members can post available jobs. The UTA job board currently has a new position posted for a Trustee Sales Officer.

The 2014 Utah legislative session resulted in five bills of interest to the default mortgage industry. Two of the bills, Senate Bill 20 and Senate Bill 130, have a direct impact on default mortgage servicers.

The five-year saga of changes to Michigan’s foreclosure by advertisement statute may be finally ending. As this update is being written, enrolled house bill 5277 is sitting on Governor Synder’s desk awaiting his signature. Read more

The California State Bar has approved three hours of MCLE (Minimum Continuing Legal Education) Credit Hours for attendees of UTA classes held on CFPB’s rules.

Becoming higher profile has benefited trustees, as people are more aware of the profession, your professionalism, and the complexities of changing the laws repeatedly year-after-year. With this higher profile, however, comes some rocks and arrows...

Just as foreclosures move from a series of deadlines to deadlines, so also the legislative process has a distinctive rhythm. In general, the legislative session progresses from slow, largely ceremonial meetings early in the year, to absolutely manic hearings in the spring, to a big finish in late summer.