At the moment I’m looking for a roommate to at least help cover the expenses.

Looking into the future I would like to either get a roommate in their with my brother. 

I agree with you that a license isnt necessary if youre just wanting to invest because there are a lot of great agents who are also investors who can really help guide you.As for my very first home, I just saved as much money as possible for closing costs and down payment and had roommates which helped pay the mortgage :) For my first rental, I actually leveraged the equity in my primary home and got a HELOC to use as the down payment on my 4plex.

I've never heard of a City outright banning roommates but I have heard of cities that limit the number of occupants in a property, particularly the number of "unrelated" occupants.

The past seven months have been a revolving door of nightmare tenants and roommates.

I personally prefer counting every individual stream since it doesn't matter to me where the check is coming from.I currently have a w2 income, 6 roommates, so my monthly streams are 7. 

Lots of "EXPERTS" on here,  Or they think they are , LOL  everyone looks at it different,  My college roommate(ASU) is a finance major, he is still studying and analyzing the deals waiting on the first perfect deal. 

I'm not sure if this is worth it to go through asking for this, moving into a new place, finding and managing roommates, and then potentially selling in a year or two in order to save on my expenses while I'm here, or if I should just wait.

I am not sure how socially active you are on media platforms such as instagram, facebook, etc but I have found tenants through joining  groups like "Name of the university  Housing/Roommate Search" groups catered to university students or local housing/roommate shares group where its more catered to family/working professionals.

Or, small things need fixing and they won't tell me to try to save me money.... then it turns out costing me more later than if I had known about the issue when it was minor.I've had friends interested in being a roommate/tenant with me even, and I say "sorry, I can't do pets here."