Opinion No. (1979)

Dear Honorable Taliaferro,

The Attorney General is in receipt of your request for an opinion wherein you ask, in effect, the following question:

Would a person whose service is limited to finding rental homes forindividuals be required to be licensed as a real estate broker?

Title 59 O.S. 858-301 (1974), provides in pertinent part:

"It shall be unlawful for any person to act as a real estate broker or real estate sales associate, or to hold himself out as such, unless he shall have been licensed to do so under this code."

Title 69 O.S. 858-102(2) (1974) provides:

"The term `real estate broker,…