Opinion No. (2009)

Dear Senator Ellis:

This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:

Must a person who is not an employee of a cabin owner and who, for a fee, rents out an owner's cabin in Oklahoma to tourists based on a daily rate, or negotiates or attempts to negotiate any such activity, or solicits listings of cabins for rent, or advertises or holds himself or herself out as engaged in such activities, possess a real estate broker's license?

Any person who performs any act within the definition of a real estate broker as set…