Want career success? Focus on family values, generosity and hard work

LOS ANGELES - July 8, 2015 - PRLog -- LOS ANGELES – Real estate mogul C. Frederick Wehba credits family values, generosity and hard work as the cornerstones of his successful career.

“I like to think my success has been due to my focus on family values centered in the strength of my Christian faith, charitable generosity, and hard work,” said Wehba, founder of BentleyForbes, one of the nation’s fastest growing, privately held commercial real estate investment companies that has more than $3.5 billion in acquired properties.

Wehba’s father was a Lebanese immigrant who loved his adopted country, and Wehba started learning his business skills as a 12-year-old while working in his father’s Crowell, Texas, grocery store. By the time Wehba was 16, he was managing the store while finishing high school and his studies at North Texas State College (now North Texas University).

After college, Wehba moved to Oklahoma City and began purchasing supermarkets, where he would increase their sales and then sell them for a profit, sometimes making as much as five times the initial investment. His move into commercial real estate began when Wehba designed and built a 120,000-square-foot shopping center that included a 53,000-square-foot superstore anchor, which received “Store of the Year” award from “Progressive Grocer” Magazine.

After moving to Denver and serving as President and General Manager of a 20-store supermarket chain, and Wehba moved back to Texas due to his interest in real estate investment, and since then he’s bought, sold and/or financed more than $3.5 billion worth of property and is currently running BentleyForbes – a company built with the help of family, with faith, and with a lot of hard work.

About BentleyForbes

BentleyForbes is one of the nation’s fastest growing, privately held commercial real estate investment companies that focuses on the development, acquisition and operation of Class-A office, multifamily residential, industrial, retail and luxury resort and hotel properties in strategic regional markets across the country. Since 1993, BentleyForbes has acquired, managed, and recycled a diversified portfolio of 66 assets totaling 13.8 million square feet across 25 major markets.