Membership Level Descriptions

• Professional Member: Professional members are the managers, owners, or brokers of record of their companies, whose primary business is loan origination, who hold licenses issued by the California Bureau of Real Estate or Department of Corporations, and whose licenses are in good standing. Professional members have voting privileges and may serve on the State Board of Directors. This is an individual membership. 
• Associate Member: Loan originators, loan officers, or loan consultants whose primary business is mortgage loan origination and who is not the owner, manager, or broker of record. Associate members have voting privileges, but may not serve on the State Board of Directors. Individual membership.  
• Associate Member (New MLO's Only): Only first-time members are eligible. Loan originators, loan officers, or loan consultants whose primary business is mortgage loan origination and who is not the owner, manager, or broker of record and who acquired their CA MLO license within the past 12 months of membership start date. Associate members have voting privileges, but may not serve on the State Board of Directors. Membership will be approved once verified at: http://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. Individual membership.
• Affiliate Member: An Affiliate member is an individual whose business is other than that of loan origination (e.g. wholesale, appraiser, bank, title officer, lender, attorney, vendor, etc.), but who has an interest in supporting mortgage brokers in general, and the Association, in particular. Affiliate members have voting privileges, may serve on committees and may serve as an Advisory Director on the State Board of Directors. Individual membership. 
• Support Staff Member - Members are non-licensed individuals that perform administrative, processing, clerical type duties for a Professional, Associate or Affiliate Member. Support staff members do not have voting privileges and may not serve on the State Board of Directors, but may serve on CAMP committees. Individual membership.