@Hailey Padgett Short answer: No. At least not legally.
Long answer, read the law for yourself from: https://plb.iowa.gov/real-esta...
543B.3 Broker — definition.
As used in this chapter, “real estate broker” means a person acting for another for a fee,
commission, or other compensation or promise, whether it be for all or part of a person’s
time, and who engages directly or indirectly in any of the following acts:
1. Sells, exchanges, purchases, rents, or leases real estate.
2. Lists, offers, attempts, or agrees to list real estate for sale, exchange, purchase, rent, or
lease.
3. Advertises or holds oneself out as being engaged in the business of selling, exchanging,
purchasing, renting, leasing, or managing real estate.
4. Negotiates, or offers, attempts, or agrees to negotiate, the sale, exchange, purchase,
rental, or lease of real estate.
5. Buys, sells, offers to buy or sell, or otherwise deals in options on real estate or
improvements on real estate.
6. Collects, or offers, attempts, or agrees to collect, rent for the use of real estate.
7. Assists or directs in the procuring of prospects, intended to result in the sale, exchange,
purchase, rental, or leasing of real estate.
8. Assists or directs in the negotiation of any transaction intended to result in the sale,
exchange, purchase, rental, or leasing of real estate.
9. Prepares offers to purchase or purchase agreements, listing contracts, agency
disclosures, real property residential and agricultural rental agreements, real property
commercial rental agreements of one year or less, and groundwater hazard statements,
including any modifications, amendments, or addendums to these specific documents.
[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §117.3]
C93, §543B.3
95 Acts, ch 170, §2; 2002 Acts, ch 1031, §1
Referred to in §543B.5, 543B.6, 543B.7, 543B.43
Tue Nov 24 19:08:08 2020 Iowa Code 2021, Chapter 543B (25, 0)
3 REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS, §543B.5
543B.4 Real estate — definition.
As used in this chapter, “real estate” means real property wherever situated, and includes
any and all leaseholds or any other interest or estate in land, and business opportunities which
involve any interest in real property.
Then there's this: 543B.6 Acts constituting dealing in real estate.
A person who, for another, in consideration of compensation, by fee, commission, salary,
or otherwise, or with the intention or in the expectation or upon the promise of receiving or
collecting a fee, does, offers or attempts or agrees to do, engages in or offers or attempts or
agrees to engage in, either directly or indirectly, any single act or transaction contained in the
definition of a real estate broker as set out in section 543B.3, whether the act be an incidental
part of a transaction or the entire transaction is a real estate broker or real estate salesperson
within the meaning of this chapter.
From page 15, 3. If an investigation pursuant to this section reveals that an unlicensed person has
assumed to act in the capacity of a real estate broker or real estate salesperson, the
commission shall issue a cease and desist order, and shall impose a civil penalty of up to the
greater of ten thousand dollars or ten percent of the real estate sale price.
PS - this took me 30 seconds with a Google search.
PPS - this is nearly identical to most, if not all, other states. To market a property that you don't already own is a license-required activity. Real estate agents are heavily regulated in order to protect the public from unscrupulous operators, like wholesalers.
Maybe concentrate of fix & flip? Add value instead of stealing it. Or get your real estate license.