Joffrey Long: Mortgage Expert Witness
On Thursday, January 30, Joffrey Long will be moderating, "Title Insurance, 2014," a comprehensive look at title insurance for hard money lenders.
Presenters will be John Hosack and Jason Goldstein, attorneys from Buchalter. Among the many topics covered will be:- Different types of title policies and endorsements
- Selection of service providers and ordering title insurance
- Title insurers, title "agencies," and the importance of escrow holders
- The broker/lender and their role in the title insurance process
- Title insurance claims, the handling of claims and possible challenges to coverage
- Practices for brokers, lenders and other participants in the title insurance process to consider
A comprehensive set of written materials will be provided. The session is ONLY open to CMA Members.
Universal Hilton Los Angeles at Universal City, CA
Registration: www.CaliforniaMortgageAssociation.com
The full educational conference runs for two full days, including Thursday, January 30 and Friday January 31, and includes numerous other sessions relative to hard money direct lenders, hard money brokers and other participants in the arranging or making of trust deed investments. Other sessions include:
- Legal and regulatory update
- 2014 real estate market forecast with Bruce Norris
- Accepting third party originations from loan brokers and other originators
- Underwriting single purpose commercial property loans
- Legislative update
- Detecting and avoiding false identification
- 60th Anniversary Celebration
Over 250 people have registered. CMA Conferences attract some of the most knowledgeable participants in hard money lending, or "private money lending." These include:
- Real estate brokers who make or arrange loans with funds from private trust deed investors, which may be originated as whole loans or as fractionalized trust deeds
- Direct hard money lenders, who make loans, sometimes selling those loans to trust deed investors
- Fund managers, who organize and operate mortgage funds, commonly referred to as mortgage pools
- Hard money wholesale lenders, who rely on hard money loan brokers or other hard money originators to bring them loans
- Loan servicing companies and foreclosure trustees
- Attorneys, some who specialize in private money lending or hard money lending issues
- Non-licensed individuals, seeking sources of trust deed investments
- Hard money lending compliance consultants
- Mortgage practitioners who provide services as a mortgage expert witness, hard money lending expert witness, or loan servicing expert witness
- Service providers, who provide other goods and services to the hard money lending industry
Joffrey Long is a hard money direct lender and president of Southwest Bancorp. He also provides litigation consultation, and at times, testimony as a mortgage expert witness. More information is available at www.MortgageExpertWitness.net or at www.JoffreyLong.com
