Gasio v. Tran et al. ยท Case File for Counsel Review
OC Superior Court · No. 30-2024-01410991-CL-UD-CJC · Dept. C61

Why this page. A real estate licensee operates under the supervision of a corporate broker. The corporate broker is held by a designated officer of record. The discipline history of the corporate license attaches to the supervisory environment in which the licensee acts. This page assembles the documented organizational record around the brokerages on the Gasio v. Tran instruments so a reviewing attorney can trace each licensee back to the corporate license and the officer of record.

Every fact on this page is anchored to a primary public record — California DRE consumer-license lookup, OAH/DRE disciplinary decisions, OC Clerk-Recorder document numbers, FINRA BrokerCheck, and Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC’s November 10, 2025 acquisition announcement. No legal conclusion is asserted.

1. The corporate broker on the executed lease (April 26, 2024)

DRE Corp Lic. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties — rebranded November 10, 2025 to Coldwell Banker Envision

The April 26, 2024 lease (DocuSign Envelope 46CC8725-F790-DF11-96F5-604580068161, C.A.R. Form RLMM) routes rent to a Wells Fargo account in Hanson Le’s personal name. Mr. Le acted under the BHHS California Properties corporate license at the time of the lease.

On November 10, 2025, BHHS California Properties was acquired by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC and rebranded to Coldwell Banker Envision. Mr. Le carries forward as a licensee under the new corporate identity.

The corporate license under which Mr. Le’s affiliation operates is held by a designated officer of record whose own DRE personal license carries no public discipline finding, but whose corporate-license history reaches back four decades and includes three separate DRE disciplinary proceedings against an affiliated corporate broker (Mulhearn Realtors Inc) of which the same individual was Designated Officer of Record at the time of the most recent stipulation.

2. The designated officer of record

DRE Broker #00602101 Dennis Allen Rosas — CEO Coldwell Banker Envision (former CEO BHHS California Properties)

License issued March 7, 1986 (40+ years). Mailing/residence: 15330 Janine Drive, Whittier 90603 (562-902-3403). Principal office: 16404 Colima Road, Hacienda Heights 91745 (562-860-2625). Past governance: President Whittier District Board of REALTORS (now Pacific West), Regional Vice President California Association of REALTORS, Director CAR + NAR, member The Realty Alliance.

Personal license (#00602101) carries no public DRE discipline finding. The corporate-license footprint set out in Section 4 below sits on top of that personal-license clean record.

Cross-reference: actor-rosas.html.

3. The six DRE-affiliated corporations on the Rosas record

California DRE consumer-license lookup discloses six corporate broker licenses on which Dennis Allen Rosas is or has been affiliated as a licensed officer or designated officer of record:

DRE Corp #CorporationStatusNote
00808075S J Heritage IncActiveExpires 3/16/2029
01208606Springdale Marina IncActiveExpires 5/2/2028
02211662Stratton-LFCA IncActiveExpires 3/5/2027
00262360Home Brokers IncExpired 11/15/2015
00338699Mulhearn Realtors IncExpired 9/26/2024Subject of three DRE disciplinary proceedings — see Section 4
00533217All Properties IncExpired 5/7/2023

4. Mulhearn Realtors Inc — three-decade DRE disciplinary record

Three separate DRE adjudications across three decades, each implicating the same statutory provisions: Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 10145 (broker handling of trust funds) and § 10177(g) (negligence in the supervision or operation of the corporate broker). Documents in agency files; secondary indexing at OAH (Office of Administrative Hearings) decision archive.

DRE H-24243 LA · effective August 6, 1991 First disciplinary proceeding

30-day suspension on all licenses, stayed on terms and conditions including a $2,500 monetary penalty. Stipulated decision — Bruce Mulhearn (DRE Broker #00270292) and Mulhearn Realtors. Conduct involved a former employee’s collection of trust-funds interest in property management activities and an issue concerning the use of a fictitious name. Per the stipulation, the public was not harmed.

Anchor citation: subsequent 2000 decision (H-28384 LA, paragraph III of the Accusation) recites the 1991 prior discipline by reference.

DRE H-28384 LA / OAH L-2000030327 · effective October 4, 2000 Second disciplinary proceeding

Hearing July 13, 2000 before ALJ Joseph D. Montoya, Office of Administrative Hearings, Los Angeles. Proposed Decision August 14, 2000; adopted by Real Estate Commissioner Paula Reddish Zinnemann September 12, 2000. 45-day suspension on all licenses, stayed on payment of $4,500 monetary penalty plus DRE audit costs (initial audit + follow-up audit).

Five specific violations on the audit period January 1 through August 31, 1999:

  • § 10145(a) and § 10176(e); Reg. 2835 — $45,390.92 overage in Trust Account #1 (Pacific Business Bank #41-032928, El Monte) from deposit of fire-insurance proceeds payable to Mulhearn Realtors into the trust account
  • § 10145(a); Reg. 2832.1 — $740.91 shortage in Trust Account #2 (#41-031913)
  • Reg. 2831 — columnar record on Trust Account #1 missing the date funds received and from whom
  • Reg. 2831.2 — failure to maintain monthly trust account reconciliations
  • Reg. 2834 — non-licensee allowed to be a signatory on the trust accounts; other signatories without written authorization

Both Mulhearn Realtors and Bruce Mulhearn personally found in violation of § 10177(d) and § 10177(g).

Patrick Rayney — Mulhearn Realtors’ non-licensee Controller and Chief Financial Officer, employed by the firm 20+ years and serving as a trust-account signatory for 19 years before the audit identified him as an unauthorized signatory under Reg. 2834. Following the audit, the firm obtained a $300,000 fidelity bond on Mr. Rayney; the corporate broker’s average trust-account balance at the time was approximately $55,000.

Firm scale at the time: 10 branch offices, approximately 475 sales agents (approximately 20 of whom were brokers working as agents), approximately 2,000 sales closed in the eight-month audit period, and four escrow units handling approximately 300 escrows.

DRE H-41672 LA · effective March 4, 2021 Third disciplinary proceeding — Public Reproval — Rosas signed as Designated Officer of Record

Stipulation signed by Dennis Allen Rosas as Designated Officer of Record on January 5, 2021. Approved by the Real Estate Commissioner January 28, 2021. Effective March 4, 2021. Public Reproval, Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 10177(g) (negligence). Costs $2,518.71 plus monetary penalty $2,500.

This is the proceeding in which Mr. Rosas, by his own signature on the Stipulation as the corporate broker’s designated officer of record, accepted DRE’s finding of negligence under the same statutory section that had governed the 1991 and 2000 proceedings against the same corporation.

5. The recorded-instrument footprint at the Orange County Clerk-Recorder

Public-record search of the OC Clerk-Recorder index discloses a recurring lender on the Le and Tran loan chain. The overlap is documentary, not inferential. No legal conclusion is asserted.

Doc #DateInstrumentPartyLender / Counterparty
201700055224112/21/2017Grant DeedMangione/Do → Le Hanson Tri + Le Quynh Tran$642,000 purchase — transfer tax $706.20 — Lot 52 Tract 7771 HB
201700055224212/21/2017Trust Deed (18 pp.)Le Hanson TriMega Capital Funding Inc / MERS
202000028594406/19/2020Trust Deed (19 pp.)Le Hanson Tri (refi)Mega Capital Funding Inc / MERS
202300008765104/18/2023Trust Deed (12 pp.)Le Hanson TriBank of West / BMO
202500010392004/08/2025Trust Deed (16 pp.)Le Hanson TriBMO
201200044772008/06/2012Asgt of Trust Deed(Tran chain)Wells Fargo → Bayview Loan Servicing
202200015270604/21/2022Asgt of Trust Deed(Tran chain)Mega Capital Funding Inc / MERS → Quicken / Rocket Mortgage — one day before the Gasio tenancy commenced
20240000275862024Asgt of Trust Deed(Tran chain)FDIC / First Republic → JPMorgan

6. Mega Capital Funding Inc — common originator overlap

Mega Capital Funding Inc / MERS appears as the lender of record on Hanson Le’s December 21, 2017 purchase Trust Deed (#2017000552242), on Le’s June 19, 2020 refinance Trust Deed (#2020000285944), and on a Phat L.K. Tran assignment chain dated April 21, 2022 (#2022000152706). The Phat Tran assignment recorded one calendar day before the Gasio tenancy commenced on May 1, 2022.

Mega Capital Funding is a wholesale-only lender; every loan it funds runs through a mortgage broker. The mortgage-broker entity on the Le 2017 loan is identified in the body of the 18-page Trust Deed (#2017000552242), pulled from the OC Clerk-Recorder by mail order on April 24, 2026 and pending arrival.

The overlap on the recorded-document record is the underlying documentary fact. The reviewing attorney is invited to evaluate the significance of the overlap on the available record.

7. Le name spelling variants in the OC Clerk-Recorder index

Hanson Le filings at the OC Clerk-Recorder index are searchable under: Le Hanson Tri, Le Hanson T, Le Huy. Phat L.K. Tran filings are searchable under twelve confirmed name spelling variants in the OC index, including Phat Tran, Tran Phat, Tran Phat L, Tran Phat L K, Tran Phat Luu Ky, Tran Phat Luu Ky DDS, Phat Ky Tran. Comprehensive index searches require all variants.

8. Cross-references

Scope and methodology. The DRE consumer-license lookup, the OAH/DRE disciplinary decisions, and the OC Clerk-Recorder document index are public records open to any reader. This page assembles those records around the brokerages named on the operative instruments in Gasio v. Tran. No statement on this page asserts that any individual or entity has committed a crime, violated a statute, or breached a professional duty. Personal license #00602101 carries no public DRE discipline finding; the corporate-license history set out in Sections 3 and 4 is the public DRE record of the affiliated corporations.

Notice to reader · scope and disclaimers

This page is part of the Gasio v. Tran et al. case file. The plaintiff is not an attorney. Nothing on this page constitutes legal advice. All factual assertions are anchored to public records: California DRE consumer-license lookup, OAH/DRE disciplinary decisions, OC Clerk-Recorder document index, FINRA BrokerCheck, and Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC’s November 10, 2025 acquisition announcement.

No statement on this page should be read as a determination that any named person or entity has committed a crime, violated a statute, or breached a professional duty. Those determinations are reserved to qualified counsel, regulatory agencies, and the courts.