I want to raise capital in order to not touch my savings.

Take your next bonus or raise and start banking it.

I read a blog post on here once about how tenants expect you to raise rents.

Now negotiating sales price at 300K and he hasn't raised rents for three years.Quad across the street is getting $4450/month in gross rent.

(Like using the fact that your car insurer will raise your rate $1500 to get out of the court reporting you little $150 traffic ticket -- yes that's from experience!

The question has been raised on the Security Deposit payout.  

I was born and raised in Northwest NJ, Warren County to be exact.

This will get potential homesellers to raise their hands.Also, this isn't direct mail, but I always recommend new agents ask the successful agents if they can refer you to any leads.  

@Caleb Rigby from your experiences, how many times you did not have to raise your bid in the second round and still won?

You'd be looking for properties that are specifically under-valued, either because Seller's don't have money/knowledge to bring their property up to what it SHOULD be worth, or the Seller is motivated for quick sale so would take a steep discount, or the property has some other unrealized potential such as sub-dividing, or raising rents a lot.