EXHIBIT
31.1 CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY
ACT
  Certification
for Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act
 
 I, Stuart
Ducote, certify that:
 
 1. I have
reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of United Mortgage
Trust;
 
 2. Based
on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in
light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading
with respect to the period covered by this report;
 
 3. Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial
condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and
for, the periods presented in this report;
 
 4. I am
responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures
(as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) and internal control
over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and
15d-15(f))) for the registrant and have:
 
 (a)
Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated
subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly
during the period in which this report is being prepared;
 
 (b)
Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the liability of financial reporting and the
preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles.
 
 (c)
Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and
procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness
of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered
by this report based on such  evaluation; and
 
 (d)
Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal
quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially
affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting;
and
 
 5. I have
disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors:
 
 (a) All
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of
internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to
adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and
report financial information; and
 
 (b) Any
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who
have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial
reporting.
 UNITED
      MORTGAGE TRUSTDate: November
      13, 2009
              By
              /s/ Stuart
      DucotePresident
      and Chief Financial Officer