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

Why Am I Shifting Gears in My Real Estate Journey

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Andrew Hines says this is the last podcast episode he will record for the indefinite future.

1. The Andrew Hines Real Estate Investing Podcast episode 288 is Andrew Hines’s explanation for why he is shifting gears in his real estate journey. 2. Andrew Hines speaks as the solo host, and he says the episode matters because he is changing the kind of content he creates after years of podcasting. 3. The episode asks what the podcast has become, why he is stopping it for now, and what he plans to build next. 4. Andrew Hines says he started after reading Gary Vee’s book Crushing It and wanting to be paid to speak. 5. He says that in late 2018 he began posting on Instagram, which led people to ask if they could invest with him. 6. He says a social-media contact told him to “start a podcast” because all he did was talk about real estate. 7. He says the early show focused on burrs, duplexes, single families, and other small deals that listeners could understand. 8. He says the show later moved toward development and bigger concepts because he wanted to talk about larger opportunities. 9. He says May 2023 was his biggest month, with 27,000 SoundCloud downloads and more on Spotify and YouTube. 10. He says the combined total was probably near a million downloads, even though he never tracked every platform in one place. 11. He says the audience decline after that month felt like a steady drop instead of the 33% annual growth he had been used to. 12. He says negative sentiment among investors and reduced enthusiasm from interviewees made the podcast feel less fun. 13. He says the show used to feel exciting when he edited episodes in bed beside his wife, who was his girlfriend then. 14. He says producing 288 official episodes plus midweek and B episodes cost him about $1,000 to $1,500 a month for the last couple of years. 15. He says the podcast also took focus away from new deals and new opportunities, which made delegation feel necessary. 16. He says he realized about two weeks earlier that he had no more episodes in the bank and was getting constant booking-agent pitches. 17. His tone is reflective and procedural, with long explanations about numbers, chronology, and business decisions. 18. The format stays conversational and solo, with Andrew Hines moving between personal history, market commentary, and current projects. 19. People who follow Canadian real estate investing and operator updates will get the most from this. 20. People looking for a tight interview or a short market clip may skip it. 21. The biggest practical takeaway is that Andrew Hines is treating delegation and pivoting as business survival tools, not optional skills. 22. He argues that the best time to change strategy is when the old model starts consuming time, money, and attention. 23. He says the podcast originally worked because it turned his natural real-estate conversations into a public format. 24. He says the audience initially responded to simple topics like burrs on multifamilies and duplexes. 25. He says later episodes became more about development, bigger investors, and broader ideas about what was possible. 26. He says the show opened doors he could not easily quantify, including relationships and opportunities. 27. He says the cost of producing the podcast became easier to justify when it was growing quickly. 28. He says the slowdown after May 2023 changed his view of the show’s momentum. 29. He says the episode is also a record of what he learned about being a business operator versus a business owner. 30. He says he wants to move toward YouTube, short-form videos, and more current-event commentary while keeping REI Hot Seat going.

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