My passion is traveling and I am going to work for the freedom to not be tied to the American standard of two weeks of vacation time (which typically must be approved by a superior, no less!).

If you have found a truly great deal due to your differentiated knowledge of the neighborhood/local RE market (i.e. having a reasonably good ARV estimate), or expertise in rehab, or some other differentiator that will give certainty of execution to the transaction, then it's worth putting your key terms/deal structure down on paper and focus on getting an anchor investor (debt or equity) so you can lock up the deal first.

Instead of wanting to try them all, choose 1 strategy and focus on executing.

As you see they are difficult to execute.

Depending on where the house is in Springdale, you might try marketing it to Tyson executives/senior managers. 

Something like 50% of Americans right now are a $1k expense away from financial turmoil so you can imagine how few people have $100k+ to invest.I do agree that using cash is a great strategy. 

The seller would need to present a post occupancy agreement to the buyer for execution prior to closing. 

In many cases that money goes "hard" (non-refundable) on the day of the contract execution.

The seller would sign a deed transferring title to you at the date the agreement is executed and monies are exchanged.

Sometimes its worked and sometimes I had to execute my backup plan.