{"id":122756,"date":"2026-01-06T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122756\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:00:07","slug":"california-real-estate-trainer-fined-banned-for-exam-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/122756\/","title":{"rendered":"California real estate trainer fined, banned for exam violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe subversion of real estate license examination content is something DRE takes very seriously,\u201d Jeff Oboyski, the CDRE\u2019s assistant commissioner, said in a statement. \u201cEnsuring that those who attempt to compromise the integrity of our real estate license exams are held accountable for their actions underscores DRE\u2019s commitment to consumer protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the settlement, McHarg and RETI will be required to pay $60,000 in monetary penalties, damages and the costs incurred by the CDRE\u2019s investigation and litigation. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, McHarg has been barred from applying for or having any type of participation in an examination for a California real estate license. He is also barred from holding a real estate license, or holding any position of \u201cemployment, instructor, management, control or ownership in a real estate business or a business that offers pre-license, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/real-estate-continuing-education\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continuing education<\/a> or any type of real estate license exam preparation courses\u201d for three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>McHarg\u2019s former firm \u2014 as well as all of its officers, directors, instructors and any other affiliated persons \u2014 is also barred from applying for or participating in any examination for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/tag\/california\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> real estate license.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it may not offer any type of real estate license exam preparation course or pre-license courses that use questions copied or subverted from DRE license exams for three years. RETI must also remove McHarg as an instructor, officer, director agent, associate, independent contractor, employee or affiliate of the company.<\/p>\n<p>RETI and McHarg did not immediately return HousingWire\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe subversion of real estate license examination content is something DRE takes very seriously,\u201d Jeff Oboyski, the CDRE\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,64328,9,8,27257,64329,45151],"class_list":["post-122756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-department-of-real-estate","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-hwmember","tag-real-estate-licensing","tag-regulatory-compliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}