Respondent is charged with engaging in practices harmful or detrimental to the public in violation of Iowa Code sections 543B.56(1)(a) and 543B.56(1)(b) by:
(a) Soliciting a listing or brokerage agreement with an owner if the licensee knows or has reason to know that the owner has a written unexpired exclusive agency or exclusive right to sell listing agreement to the property with another broker. See 193E Iowa Administrative Code §11.1(1).
(b) Negotiating directly with the owner knowing that the property was listed with another broker. See 193E Iowa Administrative Code §11.3(8).
(c) Solicitation of brokerage agreements. A licensee shall not advise, counsel, or solicit a brokerage agreement from a seller or buyer, or landlord or tenant, if the licensee knows, or acting in a reasonable manner should have known, that the seller or buyer, or landlord or tenant, has contracted with another broker for the same brokerage services on an exclusive basis. See 193E Iowa Administrative Code §11.3(7).
