Unlicensed individuals can do this all day every day with no issues.

One of the biggest discoveries I had as an Investing Realtor® was that there were significant differences in what needed to be said than those who were unlicensed.  

You can file with DPOR but if they are unlicensed there is not much they can do as they deal with licensed contractors.Your only recourse is small claims court

An Investor with a real estate licenses has inherent advantages that the unlicensed does not.

Electrical work without a license is risky - your insurance may not cover a fire if its known that unlicensed work was performed; and YES, they do investigate that because its a way to reject your claim. 

That is the difference between operating honestly or being an unlicensed broker screwing over unsuspecting sellers.

For the time being, it would be most prudent to not obtain a license (if you are unlicensed and want to do wholesale), refrain from wholesale work, or create a strategic alliance with a wholesaler in which everyone's interests are served and all parties win together.

To your initial post, no, an agent can not split his/her commission with any unlicensed person or entity.

so i just lost another contractor. as someone on here stated a few weeks ago, they are like a loaf of bread. they all have a shelf life. i tend to work with lots of insured, unlicensed contractors that of course can not comprehend that sticking with me would prevent them from having to bid future jobs.is being too nice a bad thing?

If all matches the company that you are signing with, then you could go ahead, otherwise, minimum recourse for hiring unlicensed contractor (IE signed contract with ABC Co then using CDE Handyman Services).