High Revenue, Low Cash: Why Real Estate Investors Feel Broke

Wealthy Way

Ryan Pineda

Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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You can close 25 deals a month and still feel broke. Why? Because cash flow ≠ profit. Most real estate investors don’t have a money problem, they have a money management problem. Let’s talk about the “Profit First” mindset and how to stop running your business like an accidental nonprofit. Get access to our real estate community, coaching, courses, and events at Wealthy University https://www.wealthyuniversity.com/ Join our FREE community, weekly calls, and bible studies for Christian ...

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0:00.0	Why are real estate investors always cash poor? I always call them broke, which isn't probably the
0:05.0	right term, but like they're always cash for. Yeah, they are. I think, oh man, that's a loaded
0:10.7	question right out of the gate. I think a lot of them have the mindset, the root issue is that
0:16.1	more deals solves all the problems. That's what we were. Like I was part of a company where
0:20.7	we were doing 25 deals a month, but spending 26 worth out the problems. That's what we were. Like I was part of a company where we were
0:20.8	doing 25 deals a month, but spending 26 worth out the door. And that doesn't work very well.
0:27.6	And so that's what we were in the same mindset. If we just do more deals, we can scale ourselves
0:31.6	out of this problem. I think that's one big mindset that a lot of people have. I think the other thing is they don't know how to manage the day-to-day cash.
0:39.4	Like even if you're a flipper and you're only doing one, but then you do two and maybe three
0:43.7	at a time, like they start to scale and even if they're just doing a few deals at a time,
0:47.8	where's all that cash go?
0:49.3	How are they going to get it to the right place?
0:50.8	Like they can get over their skis real quick. Yeah. And I think part of it too is
0:55.4	even like, okay, in your guys' case, you weren't actually making money. Right. Like you do 25 deals,
1:01.6	but you're spending, like you said, 26 deals worth of profit. So you're actually negative net profit.
1:08.7	But I know a lot of real estate investors, myself included, who have been
1:13.3	very high net profit, but there's no actual cash. And so now we're talking about like balance sheet
1:18.9	type deals where it's like, oh, wait a minute. Yeah, we made all this money, but I took all that
1:24.6	money and now I put it back into marketing, into four more deals,
1:28.8	and now I'm broke again. Yeah. That's the number one thing we hear is I make money but feel
1:33.4	broke, where it's like, okay, where did all that money go? That's where having a good understanding
1:38.6	of the balance sheet does come into play. That's why I like profit first, because it's like,
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