Ohio Real Estate Commission v. Aqua Sun Investments, Inc.

Wolff, Judge.

The Ohio Real Estate Commission (“commission”) appeals from the judgment of the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court which modified the commission’s order suspending Aqua Sun Investments, Inc.’s real estate dealer’s license for one hundred eighty days.

The following is a statement of the facts based on the common pleas court’s characterization of the administrative record.

In March 1993, an investigator for the Ohio Division of Real Estate (“division”), Ted Williams, began investigating Aqua Sun. His investigation led him to believe that Luke Byrne was selling real estate for Aqua…