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.
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