Finding a Cashflow Club Near You

• Cashflow is a great financial learning game from Robert Kiyosaki.
• You learn more if you play with a group.
• Find a local group through meetup.com (search “Cashflow”).

I’m guessing most of you have already read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. In the book he talks about the Cashflow game he designed to help raise people’s Financial IQ’s. If you’ve never played this game, you definitely should.

The point of the game (outside of the financial learning) is to escape from the rat race. You have a job and get a regular pay, you get chances to make small deals and big deals. You can lose your job, buy doodads, give charity, have kids, and work creatively with other players to split or resell deals. Throughout the game, you keep a balance sheet, keeping track of your assets, liabilities, income, and expenses. The goal is to have your passive income greater than your expenses. Then you’re out of the rat race. These are valuable concepts that a person can apply to their life and their businesses, including real estate.

There are different ways to play the game, the easiest being the online or e-version. My little brother and I started playing this game when he was just ten, and even he picked up the concepts really quickly. However, the board version is even better because it teaches you to work as a team. Unlike other games, the game can be played with all the players helping each other out (at least that’s how we played it during my last meeting) and this creative cooperation (for example joint deals or deals for a percentage of the income or giving loans) are creative learning tools that you can’t get through the electronic version.

I didn’t know these guys were around, but a couple weeks back I attended a Cashflow workshop in Santa Clara. The man who runs them, actually helps host a biweekly meet-up and he’s not alone. There are over twenty five clubs in the Bay Area (CA). To find one, just search for “cashflow” on meetup.com.

Joining this club will help you network with like-minded people and build your business, financial, and real estate skills.