Do they charge an annual "worldwide fee" which supports their name brand?

Even the brand new house had issues.  

All brand new.

I am starting to build out a site to help with an agent's lead collection and online brand.

Home is brand new.

Now if there is a specific brand you want at your property, especially if they are a larger or national credit type tenant, they have real estate brokers and criteria readily available on their website or through Costar that you can reach out to and market your vacancies to.

Those small teams are still out there, many with DBA paperwork to continue branding themselves as "ABC Small Time Local Mortgage Brokerage" that's been around for 30 years that everyone knows, but really behind the scenes they are all employees of "XYZ Lending" along with 5,000 other employees.

My husband and I are brand new investors. 

Use BNBCalc to look at the different scenarios from a revenue stand-point and see how that affects your bottom line and to create brand-able share reports you can send others to get feedback on your analysis (or to create partnership opportunities).

After a several years building his team, systems, network and brand, his US businesses are very successful.