Keep your name. Borrow ours when it helps.

Yes. Roebling Collective is designed to sit beside a personal brand rather than replace it. You choose, listing by listing, whether a piece carries your identity, the Roebling identity, or both. Your name stays on your signs, your marketing, and your sphere.

Active listings belong to the brokerage, not the agent, so they do not automatically move with you. In practice most brokerages will release a listing if the seller asks to follow you, but the seller has to make that request and the current brokerage has to agree. Plan the timing of a move around your active inventory, and read your existing agreement before you give notice.

It depends on what you signed. Many team agreements claim ownership of leads the team provided, and some claim the whole database. Contacts you sourced yourself are usually yours, but the agreement controls. Pull your own contacts and your transaction history before you resign, and have someone read your team agreement first. At Roebling Collective your database is yours, and that is written into the agreement.

A brokerage holds your license and takes a split. A team sits inside a brokerage and typically provides leads, coaching, and administrative support in exchange for a further share of your commission. For an agent who wants people around them and volume coming to them, that is a good trade at any level of production, and plenty of long tenured top producers choose it for their whole career. Roebling Collective is a different shape rather than a further step. It is a brand and an operations layer inside eXp Realty for agents who generate their own business and want to build under their own name.

Derek Caldwell runs The Caldwell Group, and it is a team in the ordinary sense: shared leads, a shared brand, and splits that pay for both. Team agents run 50/50 on team-provided leads and 60/40 on their own, with full white-glove service behind them, and it does not cap. It is a good business, and some of its agents have been there eight years and close thirty or more deals a year. The collective is a different structure. There is no lead split, because it hands you no leads. Instead of a split that never caps, you have a $16,000 cap and then you are at one hundred percent. You market under your own name rather than ours. Your database is yours on the way in and on the way out. The two are separate on purpose, and neither is a step toward the other.

Twenty thousand dollars a year at most. You split into a $16,000 cap with the collective and a $4,000 cap with eXp Realty, and once both are met for the year you are at one hundred percent. There is no desk fee and nothing is billed monthly. For comparison, the standard eXp cap on its own is $16,000, and an agent on a 60/40 split with no cap doing $300,000 in gross commission pays $120,000 in a year.

Access to Fast Forward Movement and UPGRADE comes through the partnership, so it ends when the partnership does. That is true of every sponsored community at eXp and it is worth knowing before you join rather than after. What you keep either way is your name, your database and your own book of business.

The Caldwell Group's white-glove service is gated to The Caldwell Group and is not part of the collective. That means the collective does not produce and pay for your marketing, signage, print, postage, listing management or social media, and it does not hand you leads. You get the Roebling brand files and templates, and you order and pay for your own production. Transaction management is available as an add-on rather than bundled into the cap. The line between a Caldwell Group agent and a Roebling Collective agent is deliberate, and we would rather draw it plainly than let you find it later.

No, but you do have to be producing. Roebling Collective is built for agents who already generate their own business and want a brand that reads at a higher price point. If what you actually want is leads and people around you, a good team is the better answer, and we will say so.

Kentucky and Ohio both enforce reasonable restrictive covenants, so whether one binds you depends on what you signed and how broadly it is written. Non-solicitation clauses are more common in real estate than true non-competes. If you leave Roebling Collective you take your name and your database with you, and the exit terms are in the agreement you sign at the start.

Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati, on both sides of the Ohio River. That includes Covington, Newport, Fort Thomas, Fort Mitchell, Villa Hills, Edgewood, Crestview Hills, Erlanger, Florence, Union, Burlington, Hebron, Independence, and Alexandria in Kentucky, and Hyde Park, Oakley, Mt. Lookout, Mt. Adams, Over-the-Rhine, Mariemont, Anderson Township, and Blue Ash in Ohio.

Give notice under your current agreement, then transfer your license through the Kentucky Real Estate Commission with your new broker. Your new broker files the change and the Commission updates your license record. Coordinate the date with your active listings and pending contracts so nothing falls between the two brokerages. Ohio agents file the equivalent transfer with the Ohio Division of Real Estate.

The Caldwell Group, a Northern Kentucky real estate team led by Derek and Dianna Caldwell, operates the collective. The brokerage of record is eXp Realty. The collective is licensed in Kentucky and Ohio.