I am a Broker in Madison, WI as well as an appraiser and self manage some rentals. 

Here in Michigan you need to be licensed as a real estate agent or broker to be legal.

Firstly, well done for persevering and trying every avenue you thought would get you the data you needed.Most would have caved earlier and handed out there hard earned cash for old, saturated leads/records from the same prominent platforms which dump them pretty much when they receive them from either 1).the same large brokers AFTER the county has listed them on the county website or, 2). from the counties themselves directly AFTER the county has listed them on there own website, or, 3). from data scrapers on Upwork/Fiverr who scrape the data from those same platforms AFTER the counties/brokers sell those platforms the data being scraped by the freelancers.Anyway, rant aside you seem to of made the same mistake i made when I first started branching out away from providing leads to my original couple of clients i got from Upwork who wanted me to scrape data from court records in FL for pre FC leads.Simply, I didn't know where to look for the information I needed in states outside of FL.FL only allows the judicial route to foreclosure so I only needed to know/find/scrape the data from Lis Pendens documents for counties they requested.

Add 2 points and a processing fee for the broker an underwriting fee for the lender and various and sundry closing costs and you're golden.

First, let me say I’m not a lender or mortgage professional—I’m a real estate broker associate based in Miami, Florida.

I struggle with that myself.Insurance broker - I can introduce you to a couple of great agents, but they are not on Bigger Pockets, so I cannot tag them.

Meet with some real estate agents, banks, brokers, and property managers/developers in those areas. 2025 is going to be a pretty awesome year for cash rich investors who can pick up some excellent deals on the cheap! 

But wanted to look at where our customers are at.

Wiey Underwood I answered a similar question in the thread link below and listed several of the cost segregation companies that our customers use (not necessarily partners).https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1163125-mater...

Since you’re leaning toward multifamily, it might be worth connecting with local investors or brokers to see if a license is necessary for your goals.