Port Coquitlam real estate agent gets licence pulled after failing to pay $20k late fee
An experienced real estate agent with a pattern of missing deadlines had his licence suspended, following a recent decision by the B.C. Financial Services Authority.
Gordon Thomas Tietjen, the managing broker for Home and Garden Realty Gordon Tietjen Ltd., was fined $20,000 and ordered to pay another $3,000 in enforcement expenses after BCFSA found he committed “professional misconduct”
That misconduct stemmed from repeatedly failing to file his brokerage’s financial statements.
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At the end of each fiscal year, the brokerage has 120 days to submit its financial statement and other data.
In 2023, the brokerage filed that information 33 days late.
The financial authority subsequently informed Tietjen by email the filing was “deficient.”
“BCFSA did not receive a response to this e-mail,” according to a previously published consent order.
The agency issued a $20,000 fine in July 2024. Tietjen failed to pay the fee within 90 days, prompting BCFSA to suspend Tietjen’s licence on May 28, 2025.
Superintendent of Real Estate delegate Jonathan Vandall noted the penalty still hadn’t been paid.
Tietjen has been a licensed trading representative since 1989 and his brokerage has been licensed since 2008.
Between 2009 and 2022, he missed 11 deadlines for filing financial information. During that 14-year span, Tietjen was late a total of 291 days, with those delays ranging from 5 to 81 days.
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