I can raise capital in my day job and use that to fuel real estate investments.

When that happens we have requested the Tax Claim Bureau to send a portion of the exceed proceeds to the PA Dept of Revenue, in lieu of sending excess proceeds to the former owner. 

Of those that stick around, 80% of them only sell 20% of the homes and the average income for an agent is less than the average income in America...and that's before deducting expenses like fuel, marketing, office fees, licensing fees, board fees, etc.

But poverty levels higher than 20% cause excessive churn and delinquency and eviction related costs.

Here today gone tomorrow.Your equity is not earning it's keep but as long as you use real estate to park your excess cash you will not be able to do much better. 

I figured now I could double payments every month and what I was paying on these additional bills will now me excess money each month.

Investor fuel is the one I was thinking about they are new I think like  year old.. and based in TX

They return a 30-50% IRR which takes into account the time factor as well as the total return, not just the cash on cash holding return.Like you can buy an 800k$ property (cash to make it simple and leave out financing which just puts fuel on fire for returns)  then put in $200k in repairs. 

Most people would find that excessive, but it is very inexpensive.If you are used to just living in a bedroom, my advice is either find another room to rent or move into a property and rent out your extra bedrooms.As I have gotten older with a family, I value a nice home in a good neighborhood more than I did when I was younger.

I think if you did this with multifamily properties a la house hacking it would add fuel to the fire!