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

How to Manage and Grow 100 Properties with Avery Birch

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Avery runs 100 Halifax properties with a team that includes a revenue analyst, city runners, and a reviews staffer.

Avery Birch sits down with Andrew to unpack a business that started with short-term rental arbitrage. He is working in the Halifax area. The first version is straightforward: rent properties and list them on Airbnb. From there, he expanded by pooling investors and buying properties so the arbitrage model could run on assets he owned. The episode keeps circling back to that same shift. He began on the arbitrage side, but now he is moving into ownership too. It feels less like a pivot than the next step in the same playbook. The other major thread is development. Outside Halifax, in the woods as he puts it, he is building houses on land he owns and selling them with a prescribed land lease price. The units are cottages and they are off-grid right now, though he is working on bringing in power. The setup is meant to give people a way into a cottage at a very low price. The interview also goes back to how he got here. He talks about Dalhousie, being a student for seven years, and a painting franchise that taught him how to run a business. He then listed his first space online and kept adding to the portfolio year after year. Sweet Digs is part of the story too, along with a careful design program and custom paint jobs that change how a place feels. By the end, he comes across as someone trying to run the whole stack: building, managing, financing, and designing.

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A Halifax real estate discussion about Airbnb arbitrage, ownership, and a cottage development model.

Avery Birch's episode stays anchored in Halifax-area Airbnb arbitrage, but it also follows his move into property ownership, investor pooling, and a land-lease cottage project outside Halifax.

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If you want the Halifax Airbnb-arbitrage playbook, this one stays concrete.

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