Clarke is new chairwoman of Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors
The Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors (GMAR) has installed Julie Clarke of Realty Executives Integrity as chairwoman of the 4,000-member real estate organization.
Clarke took the oath of office at the GMAR’s annual Chairwoman’s Holiday Party, held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Wauwatosa.
Clarke was elected to the GMAR Board in 2006, and served as the association’s treasurer in 2008 and chair-elect in 2009. She has been a Realtor since 1997 and has been recognized as a top sales agent each year in her career.
Other members of the GMAR’s leadership team include: Steven Wiedenfeld of RE/MAX Integrity, the GMAR’s chair-elect; Robert Herget of Century 21 Herget & Plavsic, treasurer; Barb McGill, First Weber Group, corporate secretary; and Kathy Domagalski, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, past chairwoman.
Also honored that evening was Beth Savas from the Stefaniak Group as the GMAR’s Realtor of the Year. Other award recipients included: Jean Land, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, the GMAR’s Dedicated Service Award; Diane Dahlke, Two Men and a Truck, Affiliate Member of the Year; and Jeff Benson, RE/MAX Realty 100, the GMAR’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
License revoked for Kenosha realtor
The state Department of Regulation and Licensing announced that the state Real Estate Board has revoked the real estate salesperson license of Michael Granger of Kenosha. The board’s final decision and order said that Granger: forged the signatures of the sellers of a property and kept the proceeds of the sale, in the amount of $46,220, for himself; took checks from a party interested in buying a property on a land contract and kept the money instead of giving it to the property owner or their lender; and caused a $12,000 commission in connection with the sale of a home to his sister to be paid to a real estate firm Granger had no connection with. Granger then endorsed the check and made the entire commission payable to himself. The action circumvented an agreement Granger had with a real estate firm that employed him under which it would receive 20 percent of any commissions he earned. Granger had a default judgment entered against him and was ordered to pay all recoverable costs associated with the disciplinary proceeding against him.
