A Message from the President

Dear Friends;

The final days of 2011 are fast approaching and the dawn of 2012 is speeding toward us.  PLTA wishes you a Happy and Healthy New Year.  2012 will ring in some new and challenging changes to our industry.  We will see the effects of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the development of new Hud-1 forms, an expanding or contracting housing market, an expanding or contracting overall economy, a federal election and the continuation of the challenges we face as an industry on a daily basis.

Without a doubt, your membership and support of the Pennsylvania Land Title Association is greatly appreciated.  It is through your membership and support that the PLTA is able to engage on local, state and national issues that affect all of us on a daily basis.  Let me take this opportunity to thank all of our members for your membership and also let me thank our members who give of their time and talent to serve in their various capacities as Chapter Officers, Committee Chairs and Committee Members, Executive Officers and Executive Committee Members, all of whom keep this association in motion.

PLTA is your voice of the Title Industry in Pennsylvania.  We are committed to working diligently on your behalf to enhance your industry and your career.  We look forward to your continued support and we look forward to facing 2012 and the challenges it may bring, not as problems, but as unresolved opportunities.  We welcome those challenges and will use them so as to afford us the opportunity to explain what we do, the value we have and the vital role we play in the Real Estate Settlement process.

Hope to see you in June at the 2012 PLTA Annual Convention at Bedford Springs Resort!

Warm Regards,
                        
Philip S. Janny, CLTP
President

Effective February 20, 2012 the Philadelphia Records Department will institute a new Fee Schedule.   Records Commissioner Joan Decker has shared that fee schedule with PLTA and asks that we especially note to our members the fact that the new fees do not become effective until February 20, 2011.   

Download the new Fee Schdule here:  PHL rec Dept fee sch eff 2-20-12.pdf

On Friday, June 24, 2011 Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Corbett signed into law House Bill 442, which will ban the practice of Private Transfer Fees (PTFs) throughout the Commonwealth.

Read more about PLTA's latest legislative victory on PLTA Common Ground Online.