Inside America's Billionaire Neighborhood (River Oaks)

I'm sitting inside one of the richest neighborhoods in America, River Oaks in Houston, Texas.

It has been ranked the seventh most expensive neighborhood in the country.

And behind these gates are massive estates, private clubs, and some of the wealthiest people in Texas.

So today, I'm interviewing Houston's richest people to find out what they do, how much they make, and what it actually takes to build wealth in this city.

So with that being said, let's get this video on the way.

All right, you guys, we made it to our destination, man. We're in River Oaks. And just look at these houses right here, you guys. I mean, they've got bushes. They've got gates all the way up to here.

You can't even see them because this is, again, one of the most private, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the entire country, you guys. But that's not going to stop us.

Look, we're going to be going door to door, cold knocking, to try and find the millionaires and billionaires of Houston to find out how they got rich and why the richest people live in River Oaks, you guys.

Come on. All right, you guys. Look at this proper compound right here, you guys. We didn't come out here for nothing, right?

We're going to try just as many houses as we can on the block until we get kicked out of the neighborhood. Hello? Hi, ma'am. How are you? Hi.

My name is James Dumlin. I started a channel at the University of Texas that I grew to 26 million followers.

And I go all over the world asking successful people their best. I can't talk right now. I'm in the middle of something, but thank you.

No worries. Have a nice day. Excuse me, sir. Is this your house? Yeah. Question for you, man.

I have a channel where we interview billionaires all over the world to help the younger generation. We grew up to 26 million followers. What did you do to afford this place?

It's a long story, but I have friends over right now. For 30 seconds. It's super helpful for you, man. What line of business were you in? Real estate. Real estate. And what?

It worked really hard. Was it residential or commercial? Residential. If I wanted to build serious, wealthy real estate, what would you recommend to me? I don't know.

I can talk to you about it later. Sorry, I have my family. Could we connect? Is that cool? Yeah. Okay. I see your videos.

Let me give you my, can I give you my contact that we have? Sure. Apparently one of the richest people in Texas live here. Hello.

Hi, ma'am. My name is James Dumoulin, and I started a channel at the University of Texas.

I wanted to know if I could interview you or the homeowner for one minute on your best advice to the younger generation. I'm sorry, sir.

I just work for the gate company, so we're not able to do that today. Okay, ma'am. No worries. I hope you have a great day. Thank you.

Good luck to you. Thank you so much.

Hey, roll it. Roll it on. What's up? Good. How are you? What's going on? What's that? What are we doing? Well, I'll show you what we're doing.

We have the biggest business media channel in the entire world where we interview billionaires like who am I here with today.

Matthew McConaughey in Austin, Texas, baby. That's good. So some of our residents don't like being bothered on Sundays. Okay.

So if you don't already have an appointment with some of them, try not ringing their doorbells or their gates. Okay.

Some of these people lead very private lives. 100%. I understand what you guys are doing. Yes, sir. But they just don't like being bothered, man.

This is their one day of relaxation today. 100%. Okay. Got it. Thank you. All right. Appreciate that. Yes, sir. All right, man.

Again, we didn't come out here for nothing, you guys. So until I get threatened with some form of trespassing or I really get picked out of the neighborhood and I can't come back, then we're going to keep on going.

There's a lot of houses here, a lot of people, a lot of reps that we can do to ideally get some of the advice for you guys from one of the richest cities in the entire world.

So let's go. We got to see who we can find. Come on. Excuse me, sir. Sir. How did you get rich? Excuse me?

How did you get rich? I want to ask you, how did y'all get in here? This is a gated community. We interviewed a billionaire down the street. We have a channel with 26 million followers.

I interview the richest people in the world. How did you get rich? What'd you do? I make pennies for a living. You what? I make pennies for a living. What do you mean?

Every time someone swaps a credit card somewhere, and if it's one of our businesses that we've set up, I make pennies on those transactions. Are you serious?

So you're not rich, you're wealthy. I make pennies for a living. I make a lot of pennies. Can I interview you for one minute? We interview billionaires all over the world.

Can we get 30 seconds with you for the channel? Is that okay? You guys all right with that? Let me take a moment. All right. Cool.

Throughout your career, what was the most amount of money you made in a single year? A million. That's several, several millions.

In the residual revenue business, at one point, we grew it to where we were making over $500,000 a month in residual revenue.

Millions of dollars? Yes. So at what age did you make your first million? In my mid-20s. What was your turning point to getting rich? What was your turning point to becoming financially free?

I went out there after my dad showed me a newspaper article, believe it or not, in our day of internet and everything else now.

But showed me that every bank out there was issuing these credit card machines. and I went knocking on doors and wearing holes in the soles in order to be able to set people up with credit card machines and went to work.

How many hours a day do you work? I wake up at 4 a.m. and I'm checking into what's going on around the world, seeing what's going on in the EU, Dubai, and other financial markets.

I might go until 8, 9 o'clock at night every single day. So you're working a full 16 hours a day. You know, it's the way you level up each day.

You know, those that are plateauing in life, it's because they're never reaching further. I mean, if you dream it, it's possible.

I always tell everyone, it is possible, but you've got to work hard to get there. Are you a good salesman? Oh, I don't know. Am I? From what you've heard today, can you tell? I think so.

Give me your number one sales and negotiation piece of advice right here. What is your number one sales and negotiation advice for anybody in business?

Anytime that you walk into a room, I will tell you, don't walk in looking to see what they can do for you, but how you can serve them.