Disciplinary actions: Real estate brokers and managing brokers
For details about many of these disciplinary actions, please see Search business and professional licenses.
October 2011
Robert Clawson — Ridgefield
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Misrepresentation, conversion of money, and incompetence.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license revoked for 5 years.
September 2011
Paul Gebhardt — Tacoma
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Convicted by jury of Assault 2 and 3 in Pierce County in 2010, and failed to report the conviction to us.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license revoked for 5 years.
Christy M. Rice — Bellevue
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — False advertising, and misrepresentation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license suspended for 6 months, with all 6 months stayed (not imposed) for 1 year, and fined $1,000.
August 2011
Tisha Boursia — Seattle
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Engaged in unlicensed activity while her license was expired, and failed to cooperate with us during an investigation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license revoked for 3 years.
Armand E. Giovannotto — Maple Falls
- Finding:
- Engaged in unprofessional conduct.
- Used advertising that is false, deceptive, or misleading.
- Failed to report a civil court order to us.
- Failed to cooperate with us during an investigation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license revoked for 10 years.
Michael Hellickson, Tara Hellickson, and Hellickson.com, Inc. — Sumner
- Finding:
- Engaged in unprofessional conduct.
- False advertising.
- Negligent, dilatory communication with homeowners, potential buyers, and lenders.
- Drafted addenda that specified a specific lender, indicating the seller wanted that lender when they didn’t.
- Listed homes at artificially low prices.
- Finding: Real estate managing broker license (Michael Hellickson), Real estate broker license (Tara Hellickson), and Hellickson.Com, Inc. license all revoked for 10 years.
Dominic T. Parker — Redmond
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Misrepresentation, and falsified purchase and sale documents.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license suspended for 3 years, with all 3 years stayed (not imposed) for 5 years.
David Skinner — Seattle
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Failed to cooperate with us during an investigation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license revoked for 5 years.
Justin Teegarden — Vancouver
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Engaged in unlicensed activity, and failed to cooperate with us during an investigation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license suspended for 1 year.
Joseph G. Ward — Spokane
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Had multiple felony counts entered into Spokane Superior Court in 2010, and failed to timely report the charges to us.
- Action: Surrendered his real estate broker’s license, and can’t reapply for 10 years.
Lawrence W. Whitfield — Monroe
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Falsified an endorsement on a commission check, and misrepresentation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license suspended for 1 year, with all but 30 days stayed (not imposed) for 3 years, and ordered to complete an ethics course within 3 months.
July 2011
Harry J. Horan — Federal Way
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Failed to report to us an Order of Default and a Default Judgment entered in Pierce County Superior Court in 2008, and failed to cooperate with us during an investigation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license revoked for 10 years, and fined $5,000.
Chang Y. Kim — Federal Way
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Engaged in unlicensed activity, and failed to cooperate with us during an investigation.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license suspended for 1 year, stayed (not imposed) for 3 years, and fined $1,500.
Kurt C. Kominski — Puyallup
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Forged a home inspection report.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license suspended for 1 year, with all but 90 days stayed (not imposed) for 3 years.
June 2011
Robert J. Sluys — Bellevue
- Finding: Unprofessional conduct — Convicted of Insurance Fraud in Nevada in 2009, and failed to report the conviction and plea agreement to us.
- Action: Real estate broker’s license revoked for 3 years from the date of conviction.