ALL AMERICAN REALTY OF THE TREASURE COAST LLC (HAYESVILLE) – The Commission accepted the permanent voluntary surrender of the real estate firm license of All American Realty of the Treasure Coast LLC, effective May 21, 2025. The Commission dismissed without prejudice allegations that the Firm violated provisions of the Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules. The Firm neither admitted nor denied misconduct.
DAVID HUNT CHURCH (CHARLOTTE) – Following a hearing, the Commission suspended the broker license of Church for a period of six months, effective April 30, 2025. The Commission found that Church was the builder, seller, and listing agent on a newly-constructed home. Church advertised the property contained 1,200 square feet of heated living area. An appraiser for a potential buyer measured the property and found it contained only 1,093 square feet. Church maintained that he personally measured the property and that he did not err in his square footage calculation, even though three independent appraisers’ measurements indicated the square footage to be more than 9% less than what Church advertised. The Commission found Church misrepresented the heated square footage for the property in advertising and failed to update the MLS to reflect the correct square footage.
JOY L COTTO (MOORESVILLE) – The Commission accepted the voluntary surrender of the real estate license of Cotto, effective May 21, 2025, with no right to reapply for two years. The Commission dismissed without prejudice allegations that Cotto violated provisions of the Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules. Cotto neither admitted nor denied misconduct.
RACHEL A DUNNAVANT (CHARLOTTE) – By Consent, the Commission reprimanded Dunnavant effective May 21, 2025. The Commission found that as listing agent for a seller of residential property, Dunnavant hired a vendor to measure the property’s heated square footage. Dunnavant misrepresented the heated square footage in her advertisement by mistakenly using the vendor’s combined above-grade number as the measurement of one floor in the three-floor property. The bank’s 2020 appraisal valued the property at above the purchase price but noted a lower heated square footage than the advertisement. The buyer discovered the error in 2024 when a new measurement was taken when they were selling the property.
NANCY J JOHNSON (HAYESVILLE) – The Commission accepted the permanent voluntary surrender of the real estate license of Johnson, effective May 21, 2025. The Commission dismissed without prejudice allegations that Johnson violated provisions of the Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules. Johnson neither admitted nor denied misconduct.
DALE E LOFTIS (ROCK HILL) – By Consent, the Commission suspended the broker license of Loftis for a period of 12 months, effective May 1, 2025. The Commission then stayed the suspension in its entirety upon certain conditions. The Commission found that a provisional broker under Loftis’s supervision failed to remind her buyer-client on the day of closing to call the closing attorney for wiring instruction, as previously conveyed to the buyer-client by the provisional broker and as indicated in the attorney’s initial instructions. Instead, the provisional broker advised her client to pay closing costs based upon instructions in an email to the buyer-client allegedly from the closing attorney. The email was in fact fraudulent. Loftis failed to properly supervise the provisional broker in a manner to ensure the provisional broker performed services in compliance with License Law and Commission rules.
SARAH KATHERINE LOFTIS (ROCK HILL) – By Consent, the Commission suspended the broker license of Loftis for a period of 12 months, effective May 1, 2025. The Commission then stayed the suspension in its entirety upon certain conditions. The Commission found that Loftis, acting as buyer-agent, failed to advise her buyer-client on the day of closing to call the closing attorney for wiring instruction as previously conveyed to buyer-client by Loftis and as indicated in the attorney’s initial instructions. Instead, Loftis advised her client to pay closing costs based upon instructions the buyer-client received in an email allegedly from the closing attorney. The email was in fact fraudulent.
NEAL J MORTENSEN II (WILMINGTON) – The Commission accepted the permanent voluntary surrender of the real estate license of Mortensen, effective May 21, 2025. The Commission dismissed without prejudice allegations that Mortensen violated provisions of the Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules. Mortensen neither admitted nor denied misconduct.
MATTHEW JAMES SARVER (CORNELIUS) – Following a hearing, the Commission reprimanded Sarver effective April 24, 2025. The Commission found that Sarver was the listing agent of a home and received a text from a prospective buyer’s agent stating “radon came back at 14.8. At least the seller got free money to fix it.” Sarver communicated this message back to his seller-clients and they planned to install a radon mitigation system. Sarver relisted the property and failed to disclose the potential high levels of radon to prospective buyers, including another buyer who went under contract to purchase the property prior to the installation of a radon mitigation system.