Online Correspondence: California Management and Supervision

Brokers (sole practitioners or corporate broker-officers) who employ salespeople have a duty to supervise their 
licensed activities. As an agent of his or her employing broker, a salesperson has a duty to perform real estate 
activities in compliance the Real Estate Law and the Commissioner’s Regulations. The Department of Real Estate’s 
Enforcement Section receives a large number of complaints each year. Most (if not all) of these complaints could 
have been avoided simply by brokers properly supervising the licensed activities of their sales associates.