$500 Civil Penalty, 6 hour Contract and Law Course
Respondent is charged with engaging in a practice harmful or detrimental to the public and/or failing to diligently exercise reasonable skill and care in providing brokerage services to all parties to a transaction by failing to properly effectuate the terms of executed purchase agreements and failing to deposit earnest payments received by the broker in an Iowa real estate trust account in violation of Iowa Code sections 543B.29(1)(d), 543B.29(1)(k), 543B.34(1), 543B.46 543B.56(1)(b) (2022). See 193E Iowa Administrative Code sections 12.3(1)(a), 12.3(1)(b), 13.1, 13.1(1), 18.14(5)(f)(10).