I also can take out a home equity line of credit on my current home....but I need direction. 

Thats your bonafides to being able to do future deals.As mentioned above, keep your credit perfect.

I looked around and found lenders that will do a day out of foreclosure up to 50%LTV down to a 500 credit score but the loan amount minimum must be 300k.

At it's basic level:Assumption: Asking the bank to turn the loan over to you and going through the normal underwriting process, credit, income, DTI ratio etc SubTo: Taking over the loan without telling the bank, no underwriting, no credit check, no income verificationBoth have risks, but it's not my intent to be detailed in this post.

Most people I know start with low money down programs so they can get away with a initial capital investment of around $25k but you also need reserves.  

Similarly, a credit report fee upfront is reasonable, but these can often be avoided as well.

The teacher was an actual financial educator but they repeated themselves a lot and were telling the students to go in and apply for credit cards DURING the course to purchase the next course for $15,000!

This is all indicative of a low interest rate environment. 

Many realtors are not going to work in low value asset areas as those are generally rougher neighborhoods that are probably deemed to unsafe especially for a single women agent to be out there.

Seems too low to be real.