Discount For New Members and Qualified Returning Members

UTA is offering a 25% discount to new members and returning members who have not been a member since 2018. (Offer good only through April 30th) Members receive significant discounts on UTA’s annual conference fees (August 21-23rd in Las Vegas) and regional dinner events, as well as access to online townhall...

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Advertise With UTA in 2022

          UTA members have four products to communicate their services to the membership in 2022. (1) Electronic Advertising, via the UTA eNews and/or the UTA website (2) the UTA Quarterly (3) the 2022 UTA Membership Directory (4) the 2022 Conference Program Book Members who advertise electronically, and in the UTA...

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Seven UTA Members Passed the Certification Exam

Congratulations are in order for the seven UTA members who passed UTA’s California Basic Foreclosure Certification Course and Exam, taken on November 6, 2021. Randy Newman, of Total Lender Solutions was the instructor. – Matt Dayton, Ghidotti Berger – David Dutcher, iMailTracking – Josh Jacoby, Allied Trustee Services – Madeline...

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Member Profile – Elizabeth Knight

Interview with Elizabeth Knight.   Who is Elizabeth Knight, what do you do and for what company? I am the President for the PLM Family of Companies. I am very hands-on on a daily basis and oversee four companies within the PLM family: – PLM Lender Services, Inc. – PLM Loan...

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Member Profile – Steve Hicklin

Interview with Steve Hicklin.   Who is Steve Hicklin, what do you do and for what company? I have been an attorney in California for 34 years, and I am also admitted in Texas and Washington state.  In 2018, I created my own law firm, The Hicklin Firm, with offices in...

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Member Profile – Kayo Manson-Tompkins

Interview with Kayo Manson-Tompkins.   Who is Kayo, what do you do and for what company? I am the managing foreclosure and eviction attorney for The Wolf Firm: – Oversee all aspects of new and pending foreclosures – Oversee all aspects of new and pending evictions – Title claim matters –...

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Member Profile – Edward Treder

Interview with Edward Treder. Who is Ed Treder, what do you do and for what company? I am the managing partner of Barrett Daffin Frappier Treder & Weiss, LLP, part of the BDF Law Group, based in Addison, Texas. We have offices in California, Nevada & Arizona with colleagues and affiliates...

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Member Profile – Susan Pettem

Interview with Susan Pettem.   Who is Susan, what do you do and for what firm? A longtime title industry national sales executive for primarily Fidelity National Financial (FNF)-owned title companies, Susan’s legacy business footprint is focused on residential & commercial mortgage and attorney-driven title and escrow transactional business. Although her...

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The Reviews Are In for UTA’s 46th Annual Conference

    UTA’s 46th Annual Educational Conference held November 7th-9th at the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino in Reno, Nevada received very high reviews by attendees. The Education sessions received positive reviews from members; –  On the ‘Default Servicing Economic Forecast’ session, sponsored by First American Mortgage Solutions with Rick Sharga: “Rick is  a great...

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SB 1079 Changes Enacted

After a tumultuous pandemic year in the Capitol, the California legislature is on fall recess until Monday, January 3, 2022.  As predicted, the 773 new laws enacted by the legislature and signed by Governor Newsom are almost double the number enacted last year, when the legislature was forced to close...

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