My why is to leave the Rat race and build a cash flowing real estate portfolio for myself.

Robert Kiyosaki's board game called “Cash flow” literally makes you play in the rat race till you get enough cash flow(cash flow > expenses) to get on the fast track and become “financially free”.

Isn't the way to get out of the rat race is to have cashflow greater than expenses?

DID I PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE??? 

I am self umployed and grew up in the service industry as my parents owned a race track and resturant.

A bull and a horse in the stable would look swell

Where Baby Boomers and Gen X generations went wrong is we bought houses, cars and had kids in our 20's which meant we increased our expenses by a lot making financial freedom much harder and thus we had to stay in the Rat Race longer.

I don’t want to leave the rat race because my current job is rewarding and I am a part of company that makes a difference in people lives.

Then there's race and class.

Unfortunately in order to escape the rat race, you first have to join the rat race.