FBF #611: A Living Legend Shares His Investment Secrets - with Welcome Wilson
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Kevin Bupp
4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today's Flash Back Friday Episode is from Episode #222, which originally aired on March 26, 2019.
Kevin Bupp welcomes you to another episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow Podcast with real estate investment veteran Welcome Wilson, who shares anecdotes rooted in incredibly rich personal experience during his 6 decades in real estate development.
Welcome is the founder and chairman of the Board of Welcome Group, a privately held real estate development firm that owns 90 manufacturing and industrial facilities comprising 4 million square feet of space in Texas. He has developed 8,000 home sites in 4 counties. He has also developed apartments, retail centers, office buildings, and a hotel.
Quotes:
"Never go against your gut instinct because the expert tells you something like an engineer or an architect and then in your gut you know he's wrong. Go with your gut because your gut knows more about it than he does."
"To succeed in business, you need to have guts and determination. Guts and determination. When he said guts, he didn't mean the guts to get into a fight. He meant the guts to make a pitch to somebody important that's highly in your favor and be able to keep a straight face and look him in the eye and be sincere."
"Don't let success go to your head. The point is, in a good economy, everything works. Everything works. And you're not invincible. And when the economy turns, practically nothing works and you can't assume that everything is going to work out. You have to prepare for the worst because it's coming."
"One rule that I always had is, if you have five and part of the things to do today, start with the most difficult one first. Do the most difficult one first."
"Having the right partners and the right friends are everything in business. You need to give your partners credit. And by the way, don't ever issue an ultimatum especially to your spouse. Ultimatums do not work."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's edition of Flashback Friday. It's your opportunity to get some good review by listening to episodes from the past that Kevin is handpicked to help you along your investment journey. If you like to partner with Kevin and join his team at Sunrise Capital Investors, head to invest with Sunrise.com to learn more. That's |
| 0:22.1 | invest with sunrise.com. Enjoy the show. Our guests for this week's show is real estate investment |
| 0:28.9 | expert, Welcome Wilson. A welcome is the founder and chairman of the board of Welcome Group, a privately |
| 0:34.4 | held real estate development firm that owns 90 manufacturing and industrial |
| 0:38.2 | facilities in Texas, comprising of over 4 million square feet of space. Wilson is also a principal |
| 0:43.6 | in Kingham Dalton Wilson, Limited, a regional industrial construction company. Now, Mr. Wilson |
| 0:48.9 | has been a real estate developer in Texas for 57 years, beginning with his first project in Galveston County, which is now |
| 0:55.8 | the incorporated city of Jamaica Beach. He was also the developer of Tiki Island in Galveston |
| 1:00.9 | County, now an incorporated city of 1,200 homesites. In total, Mr. Wilson developed 8,000 |
| 1:06.6 | homesites in four counties in Texas. In addition to plant communities and industrial property, |
| 1:11.8 | Mr. Wilson was a developer of apartments, retail centers, office buildings, including two 22-story |
| 1:17.4 | buildings in downtown Houston and a hotel, which was the fifth Marriott ever built, and this was |
| 1:22.6 | way back in 1965. He's also the author of the new book, Always Welcome, Nine Decades of Great Friends, Great Times, and |
| 1:30.3 | mostly Great Deals. In the 1950s and 60s, Mr. Wilson served in the executive office of the |
| 1:36.0 | president under both presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. At the age of 30, he received |
| 1:41.3 | the Arthur Fleming Award as one of 10 outstanding young men in the Federal Service. |
| 1:46.1 | It divided you with some additional context to the incredible honor that this representative of receiving this award, |
| 1:52.0 | both Neil Armstrong and Robert Gates were later recipients of the same award. |
| 1:56.6 | Now, guys, I will tell you that this brief biography really falls short in conveying the sheer |
| 2:02.6 | magnitude of both Mr. Wilson's life experiences and business endeavors. |
| 2:06.6 | And so I really prefer to have you hear it directly from the source. |
| 2:10.1 | And so with that, I'm very excited to get onto the show with the welcome. |
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