LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Joy Cotto was nowhere to be found inside the large second-floor conference room of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission office. Her name was on a list of settlement deals of real estate agents under investigation by the state.
The commission received its first complaint against Cotto back in May 2023 from a fellow real estate broker in Gaston County.
“Joy is selling lots and new construction homes with her husband acting as the GC (general contractor), but he is not a general contractor,” Frankie Gonzalez, Jr. wrote in a complaint dated May 8, 2023.
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“The new construction homes do not progress, her communication is terrible, and Mario Cotto, her husband, is non-communicative,” Gonzalez alleged.
Turns out, as the old saying goes, Gonzalez was a canary in the coal mine…