This practice incentivized mortgage brokerages to originate as many mortgages as possible, then sell them off to Wall Street.

A brokerage may have limitations on you conducting Real Estate activity without the involvement of the brokerage, while you are licensed and active.  

Working for a top 10 Orlando, fl brokerage with thousands of investment properties sold.

If you need assistance with finding a great brokerage once you have your license, please let me know. 

I also took the RE Salesperson class (Dec) and passed the NYS exam, but not currently hooked up with a brokerage yet.  

Almost any real estate brokerage will "let" you work for them one year or longer.  

A Corp (S vs C) can be a pass-thru, but doesn't have to be.As you have a professional license already, I would put the brokerage activity into a Corp and run the rei personally and keep the passive status.1) check with your CPA on the correctness of this approach2) create the entity3) figure out how to regress the IRS status of your personal SSN out of Broker Dealer.

Previously for over twenty years in management in the financial services industry. i have in the real estate industry as an investor, agent and brokerage for for over fifteen years and have completed numerous projects through out the Philadelphia area.

I imagine their real long term goal is to sell the website platform to a top national brokerage, as I think the website is worth more than their actual valuation. 

I mentor new agents with my brokerage and some (or every!)