Avon real estate agent involved in dozens of lawsuits faces loss of license

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is seeking to revoke the real estate license of Jeremy Tucker of Avon, who has been sued by investors, lenders and contractors dozens of times over the last few years.

In an administrative complaint, Rokita alleges that Tucker “has engaged in a multi-state loan fraud scheme and forgery of loan documents, actions that undermine the integrity of the real estate profession and poses a significant risk to the public.”

In the complaint, filed May 21, Rokita asks the Indiana Real Estate Commission to permanently revoke Tucker’s real estate license, to assess $29,000 in civil penalties against Tucker and to require him to pay court costs plus an unspecified amount of restitution to those harmed by the actions described in the complaint.

According to online records, Tucker currently has an unassigned real estate broker’s license that is set to expire on June 30, 2026. An unassigned status means the broker is not associated with a brokerage and is not actively working as a real estate broker.

Tucker is not associated with Indianapolis-based F.C. Tucker Co.

Tucker’s legal counsel, Indianapolis attorney Aaron Freeman, did not respond to a voicemail message and an email from IBJ. IBJ called Tucker at a number believed to be his, but a recording at that number said the voicemail box was full and could not accept new messages.

Rokita’s complaint centers on a consumer complaint his office received in February from Carmel resident Rodney Gaard. Gaard, a former business associate of Tucker’s, alleges that Tucker forged Gaard’s signature on multiple documents in order to obtain false mortgages under Gaard’s name, the complaint says.

Because of the forgeries, Gaard has been named as a co-defendant in more than a dozen foreclosure cases that allege Gaard defaulted on promissory notes and mortgages, Rokita’s complaint says.

In the complaint, Rokita also references a March 14 IBJ story that details the numerous lawsuits involving Tucker and other defendants.

That story describes the variety of complaints outlined in the various lawsuits. Some complaints were from individuals who invested money in what they understood to be home-flipping projects. In at least two of those lawsuits, the investors accused Tucker and his co-defendants of engaging in a series of property transfers between themselves for the purpose of inflating the homes’ value so the co-defendants could obtain financing from the plaintiffs for far more than the homes were actually worth.

Many of those cases also name other co-defendants, including Tucker’s brother Joshua Tucker and other individuals and limited liability corporations connected to one of the individual defendants. Jeremy Tucker is the only defendant named in Rokita’s complaint.

Tucker “developed business relationships with Hoosier and out-of-state investors, gained their trust and confidence in his abilities, and exploited these relationships in pursuit of his scheme for ill-gotten gains,” Rokita’s complaint alleges.

As of March, Tucker was a defendant or co-defendant in more than 25 pending cases in Hamilton, Hendricks, Marion and Shelby counties. All of those disputes involved real estate, and more than 200 residential properties were identified in at least one of those lawsuits.

Since then, some of those cases have been resolved and a few new ones have been filed.

Tucker was also a defendant or a co-defendant in many other cases within the past few years that have since been resolved.

Tucker is the registered agent for nearly 200 different nonprofit corporations and LLCs, 27 of which are currently active and most of which were incorporated by Tucker, Rokita’s complaint alleges.

According to the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency’s online litigation search, the final hearing in this case had originally been scheduled for June 18, but Tucker’s attorney has asked that it be rescheduled for Aug. 13.