Atwood v. Real Estate Commissioner

Petitioner, a real estate broker, petitions for review of respondent Commissioner’s order that suspended his license for eight months. We affirm.

Petitioner was the president and one of two shareholders of Atka Construction, Inc. (Atka), which constructed and sold residential housing. It is not a real estate licensee. In 1980, petitioner negotiated an $83,500 land sale for Atka. The purchasers knew that petitioner was a real estate broker, as well as a shareholder and president of Atka. Petitioner drafted the contract and signed all of the papers involved in the transaction for Atka as its…