Please be professional there is no need  for name calling or bad mouthing anyone regardless of political affiliation. 

You need to get you some kind of catchy T-shirt...so people easily know what you do.Please note I am not affiliated in any way with any of the groups other than that I have attended some of their meetings/presentations.NTAREI- https://ntarei.com/ Normally meets about 2x a month in North Dallas at the Holiday Inn at Preston and LBJ NE corner.

BP has no financial affiliation with these guys; I just recommend you search there because it is a network of exactly what you are looking for. 

We are getting slammed with online guest cards through AppFolio (not an employee or affiliate of AF, just a super fan-boy and love the software).Here are our numbers in a trailing 30 days:454 Guest Cards trailing 30 days68 new leads overnight350 guest card leads for the 2 BR trailing 30So we are pretty happy.

I’m not affiliated with either company, just reporting companies that have come through for me with great rates and competent staff to handle multiple simultaneous loans.  

Are there affiliate companies we can house our license (s) under while running an  essentially independent brokerage?

Some banks offer an affiliated brokerage or wealth management service.

I'm not affiliated with allure lol.

Some free sites include:www.trulia.comwww.realtor.comwww.homes.comwww.century21.comwww.remax.comwww.mls.comSince you already found your way to www.BiggerPockets.com you might as well start here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12-starting-outI'm not affiliated with any of these

I was quite impressed and decided to affiliate myself with the LuxHomePro group at the Diamond level.