The agent doesn't always tell you when their license goes inactive. In fact, they rarely if ever do.
Sometimes they truly don't know yet. Sometimes they're handling it and assume everything will be fine. Sometimes they just don't think to call. Sometimes it's on purpose. Meanwhile, they still have MLS access. They're still showing homes. They are still, as far as your AMS is concerned, an active member in good standing. Someone who can legally practice real estate. But they are not.
That gap between what your records say and what the state knows is where the risk lives.
Every real estate license in the country is tracked by a state regulatory body. The state knows whether a license is active, inactive, suspended, or expired. That information is public and it updates continuously. What it doesn't do is automatically find its way into your association's member database. Not unless someone builds that connection.
Programmatic Access To State License Data
Tangilla pulls license data from state rosters daily and reconciles it against your member records. When a license goes inactive, the system flags it. Services suspend. A notification goes out. No one has to catch it manually because the system is already watching.
The inverse is equally important. When a license comes back active, services restore automatically. The member doesn't have to call. Staff doesn't have to intervene. The database reflects reality because it's connected to the source of record, not dependent on someone remembering to update a spreadsheet.
The associations carrying the most risk right now aren't the ones with bad intentions. They're the ones running on data that was accurate six months ago. In a membership that turns over constantly, that's a different thing entirely from data that's accurate today.
Automatic license validation isn't a nice-to-have.
It's the difference between an association that knows who its active members are and one that thinks it does.
