The Andrew Hines Real Estate Investing Podcast · Andrew M. Hines

Ditched His Job and Made a Fortune Flipping Houses with Patrick Blanc

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Patrick says the job pressure became the moment he burned every bridge and committed to real estate.

Andrew opens by welcoming Patrick and pointing out that he used to be a coaching student. Patrick is also a general contractor, so the conversation is grounded in execution, not theory. The first beat is personal. Patrick says he almost got fired from his job, then decided to go all out, burn the bridges behind him, and stop holding back. Andrew keeps the pace moving and uses that story to get at the practical lesson underneath it. The discussion keeps circling back to how Patrick spots opportunities and builds momentum. He comes across as a social butterfly, a strong networker, and someone who picked things up fast. Andrew and Patrick then get into a live flip. Patrick says he was in for 452 and sold for 640, with the deal still conditional at the time of the conversation. The math matters. They talk through the rough leftover after realtor costs, and Andrew notes that the profitability picture can still sit around or above 200 thousand depending on how the costs are counted. From there the episode shifts into operations. Patrick explains that Limitless Contracting is his company and that he acts as the general contractor. He says the business runs on teams and processes, with most of the labor and trade work hired out. He keeps the parts he wants, like ordering materials and doing demolition. He says demolition is fun and a little therapeutic, which gives the episode a lighter stretch before the numbers come back. Family enters the picture too. Patrick says he brought in his brother and dad for the demo, and he notes that his brother is also a general contractor in London. The remote-management angle matters as well. He does not want to drive from Georgetown to North York every day while juggling other jobs in places like Burlington. Andrew keeps coming back to the same practical questions: what gets hired out, what gets kept in-house, and what actually keeps the project moving. The closing stretch returns to the entrepreneur thread. Patrick shares where to follow him on Instagram, points to his contracting brand, and mentions his wife's massage therapy business too. The episode ends as a family-and-business snapshot. It is less about polish than about showing how a person turns pressure into a working system.

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A grounded operator story with deal math, renovation detail, and no fake guru gloss.

This episode follows Patrick Bank, a former coaching student and general contractor whose near firing seems to have pushed him into a harder, more deliberate stretch of work.

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A flip story with real-deal numbers and no guru gloss.

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