Not quite following here but just looking for others doing higher volume of Lease Options related to 1) individuals or 2) companiesI read you bio. looks like you have some great goals for 2023!

There's nothing illegal about it, but it's a huge risk.You typically want tenants to make a combined income of 3x the rent but that becomes dangerous once you have three or more unrelated individuals pooling their resources. 

We're looking at purchasing homes in college towns, doing some renovations and adding rooms, and renting out rooms individually.

I see them as much more profitable than individual homes.

To be comfortable with this I would need to analyze the income of the individual paying the child support and I think in most cases there is no chance of them agreeing to that.

I then contacted several companies / individuals locally and asked for listings of their properties.

Also there are several carve outs for individual LL and property types which may help.

For newly constructed, purchased or renovated properties and also retroactive generally over the last 10 years, building components are properly classified into individual units of property and accurate recovery periods for computing depreciation deductions.

In an industry where we deal with irrational tenants, a thank you from an investor can make the day of the individual who received the praise.  

Because the properties individually were too inexpensive to get non-recourse loans, I went through a broker I found on Sense Financial's website, Mark Robbins/LRG, and he was able to set me up with First National Bank of America, which offered me good terms on a single loan for all 3 properties at 60% total LTV.