MF listings that ARE NOT really multi-family

[Jeff Parkin]

Okay BP fam, anyone else notice the increasing trend of local agents listing single family; row houses, townhouses, condos, and even completely detached SFR's, as multi-family in addition to their actual designation? My guess is that the agents who do this are trying to get more eyeballs on their listings. But it's infuriating! And I'm seeing it happen in more and more markets. I just did a search where the results showed 46 multi-family properties and after sifting through them all there was really only 2. And neither of them had words like duplex, triplex, etc. in the description so they wouldn't have shown had I tried searching keywords. A year ago, this wasn't an issue for this particular market.

So my question is... if looking on your own, what are you guys doing to find multi-family properties when encountering issues like this? And yes I do work with agents who send me listings, but I still like to be on the hunt as well.

Thanks in advance for your feedback, happy hunting friends!