R162-2f-401g. Use of Personal Assistants

In order to employ an unlicensed individual to provide assistance in connection with real estate transactions, an individual licensee shall:

(1) obtain the permission of the licensee's principal broker before employing the individual;

(2) supervise the assistant to ensure that the duties of an unlicensed assistant are limited to those that do not require a real estate license, including the following:

(a) performing clerical duties, including making appointments for prospects to meet with real estate licensees, but only if the contact is initiated by the prospect and not by the unlicensed assistant;

(b) at an open house, distributing preprinted literature written by a licensee, where a licensee is present and the unlicensed person provides no additional information concerning the property or financing, and does not become involved in negotiating, offering, selling or completing contracts;

(c) acting only as a courier service in delivering documents, picking up keys, or similar services, so long as the courier does not engage in any discussion or completion of forms or documents;

(d) placing brokerage signs on listed properties;

(e) having keys made for listed properties; and

(f) securing public records from a county recorder's office, zoning office, sewer district, water district, or similar entity;

(3) compensate a personal assistant at a predetermined rate that is not:

(a) contingent upon the occurrence of real estate transactions; or

(b) determined through commission sharing or fee splitting; and

(4) prohibit the assistant from engaging in telephone solicitation or other activity calculated to result in securing prospects for real estate transactions, except as provided in this Subsection (2)(a).