RICHARD H FLEMING (CLAYTON) – By Consent, the Commission reprimanded Fleming effective June 30, 2025. The Commission found that Fleming listed a vacant lot for sale. Fleming failed to take adequate steps to verify the identity of the seller of the vacant lot, resulting in the loss of the $5,000 due diligence fee paid on behalf of the buyer.
ALLISON M LONG (MINT HILL) – By Consent, the Commission reprimanded Long effective June 30, 2025. The Commission found that Long was the listing agent of the subject property. Prior to the listing, Long was contacted by a woman claiming to be the owner of the subject property. Long failed to take adequate steps to verify the identity of the seller of the subject property, resulting in the loss of the $5,000 due diligence fee paid on behalf of the buyer.
JILL JORDAN (RALEIGH) – By Consent, the Commission suspended the broker license of Jordan for a period of 12 months, effective June 16, 2025. The Commission then stayed the suspension in its entirety upon certain conditions. The Commission found that Jordan listed her personally owned real property but failed to fully disclose material facts regarding structural repairs to a buyer. The buyer terminated the contract after the parties could not agree on a due diligence request and Jordan refunded the buyer’s due diligence fees and paid their inspection costs. Jordan performed additional repairs, revised the RPOADS, and disclosed a structural engineer’s report to a second buyer but failed to fully disclose defects from the first inspection that had not been repaired.
LATASHIA S MCDONALD (RALEIGH) – By Consent, the Commission suspended the broker license of McDonald for a period of 30 days, effective June 18, 2025. The Commission found that McDonald’s buyer-clients went under contract with a property and McDonald scheduled a showing appointment for the buyer-clients to visit the occupied property. The seller vacated the property to accommodate the scheduled showing. McDonald provided the buyers with the lock-box code to the property and allowed the buyers to enter the property without McDonald being present.
RACHEL A WITHERS (RALEIGH) – By Consent, the Commission reprimanded Withers effective June 13, 2025. The Commission found that Withers represented a buyer in a residential transaction and failed to visit the property with the buyer, but had another agent on her team attend on her behalf. Withers failed to identify that the lot size was actually 0.25 acres, and not 0.8 acres as advertised in the listing. An empty lot was located next to the subject property.