Places that often get paid by wire (like title agencies) should be used to getting these calls.

Here's a clip from the article in the Gazette:  Colorado Springs continues to be one of the country’s hottest housing markets, a federal report released this week shows.Local home prices spiked 11% in the fourth quarter of 2019 when compared with the same period a year earlier, an increase that ranked No. 2 among the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency.Only Boise City, Idaho, with a 12.7% gain in home prices, had a larger increase on a year-over-year basis, the agency’s report showed.

Dual agency is not realistic, but I get your post.

Now that I’m moving into the second phase of trying to buy multi family units, I reached out to another agency who i’ll be going on showings with, but have my current agency wanting to help as well.

We have what’s called exclusive agency which allows the owner to try to sell by owner, but it also gives the Realtor the right to market and sell the property too.

It's the Federal Housing Finance Agency's House Price Index. 

Plus he owns an insurance agency so he really understands how to protect clients from both a legal and liability standpoint. 

I stupidly broke our rule of not renting to ANYONE who came with an agency's assistance. 

But, while 5+ units does not qualify under an agency structure, typically, the local lenders you will be talking to will still look at you a lot. 

The entire premise behind boarding rooms is the turnover - the agencies refill the rooms after "x" amount of time - so if Jan is taking up 1 bedroom in an all woman unit and the program requires her to leave in 4 months the agency refills it with another tenant for another 4 months etc.