This is what I am encountering, in the current Mortgage Industry.

As Chris pointed out, this is very common practice in the RE agent industry so you may come off as an agent.  

What does that fact hv to do with the RE industry? 

The reasons to buy SFR would be to flip since they have the advantage of (1) a bigger pool of potential buyers - retail buyers (2) a bigger pool of inventor - in a lot of markets even finding a multi can be difficult.I will say though that my SFR is much lower maintenance than my multi-family tenants who are more transient and less capable of solving any problem that comes up - i.e. change a light bulb, plunge a toilet.  

I recently got in touch with a lender who spent a long time talking to me and explaining how they work with investors and retail buyers.

In no particular order Find local REIAs and make contacts in the industry.

There is a real estate market just 3 hours from my area of Salt Lake City, Utah that is in a price-drop free-fall because it is tied to the oil industry.

I'm in the construction industry MEP project engineer.

These investor see it as a safe haven, also if you read into the way the industry is designed over there, it's not the picture of stability.

She has been in the industry of out of state turn key investment for over 7 years.