Well I have a deal under contract and I have a cash buyer.

First a cash snowball approach to build up your cash.  

I paid $307k cash and spent another 30k + to fix it.

It's a bridge that creates opportunities to get creative or to make cash offers on RE.

Or do they care more about the consistent cash flow or possibly upside when selling the property?

Hi Johnathon, Welcome to the community- - Majority of our investor buyers start with what their budget is and if they need / want financing, explore what those options are to leverage their cash. - There are flexible mortgage solutions available to investors that may allow for up to 85% financing.- work with an experienced agent to guide and assist in identifying properties that are priced well and can cash flow. 

As I am now focused more on cash and creative wholesales-SFR & Land, to eventually do fix and flips, buy n holds.

STR's are the most management intensive way to produce cash flow on a property and Tokyo is 9 hours ahead. 

I understand brokers are heavily relationship-based so that is probably why I am struggling to find deals that cash flow.

One option is you can use a DSCR loan and pull out 75% of the appraised value, you get to retain the asset and you should be able to cash-flow a couple of hundred bucks a month.