Collecting Keys - Real Estate Investing Podcast
Real estate investing from operators who are actually closing deals.
Collecting Keys is a weekly real estate investing podcast hosted by Mike DeHaan, Dan Austin and Dylan Koch, three active investors with hundreds of wholesale, flip, rental and creative-finance deals between them. Since 2021 the show has published more than 500 episodes on finding off-market deals, wholesaling, novations and subject-to, flipping, rentals, private lending and scaling a real estate business, plus straight talk on the market and on the gurus selling courses.
Latest episode
Regular Rich: Why $2M Liquid Beats $20M in Rentals
Mike, Dan and Dylan debate the "regular rich" idea making the rounds on Instagram — $2 million liquid plus a paid-off house — and argue that mindset, spending comfort and liquidity matter more than net worth. Mike details how building internal software with…
Latest articles
Why $2M Liquid Can Beat $20M in Rentals, According to Operators
Mike, Dan and Dylan break down the "regular rich" idea, liquidity vs. rental net worth, and how AI tools replaced thousands in monthly software.
Why Self Storage Cap Rate Data Misses 80% of the Industry
AJ Osborne on why published storage cap rates reflect under 1% of facilities, why small deals have no institutional exit, and how values fell roughly 50%.
RESimpli 6.0 Broke, So Build Your Own CRM With AI Instead
Mike, Dan and Dylan on the RESimpli 6.0 rollout, building your own software with Claude, ChatGPT demand letters, and home sales at a 31-year low.
Guides by topic
- Creative Finance, Subject-To & Novations76 episodes
- Guru Watch73 episodes
- Wholesaling120 episodes
- Finding Off-Market Deals170 episodes
- Rentals & Cash Flow157 episodes
- House Flipping72 episodes
- Private Money & Lending107 episodes
- Scaling a Real Estate Business294 episodes
- Taxes, Legal & Insurance48 episodes
- Land & Mobile Homes14 episodes
- Getting Started117 episodes
- Deal Case Studies85 episodes
- Market Updates141 episodes
- AI & Tech23 episodes
Recent episodes
Self Storage, AI Hate and Extortion w/ AJ Osborne
AJ Osborne joins Mike, Dan and Dylan after the hosts retracted a false story about him, and spends the episode explaining how self storage actually works outside the institutional…
Build Your Own RESimpli, ChatGPT As Your Lawyer, And Home Sales At A 31-Year Low
Mike, Dan and Dylan discuss the RESimpli 6.0 rollout that broke core functions for users, and why AI tools like Claude now make it practical to build your own CRM, e-sign and loan…
Pace Morby's investors are about to lose everything
The hosts walk through the accusations piling up around Pace Morby's Sub2 fund, including investor claims of locked portals, unanswered emails, missing distributions and late K-1s, plus an…
After Mike's Fire: The Insurance Every Investor Should Check
Mike's house fire prompted Dan and Dylan to review their own insurance coverage, and the guys walk through what they actually carry: umbrella policies, term life, scheduled jewelry riders,…
D.R. Horton Neighborhoods are the next Mobile Home Parks
Mike, Dan and Dylan break down Dylan's 36-unit seller-financed deal outside Cincinnati, including the risk of a two-year interest-only balloon and why he should negotiate extensions before…
Do the gurus actually believe in God? Or is it the next grift?
The hosts unpack the recent wave of real estate and sales influencers making faith the center of their content, and why they think it's a sales tactic rather than a conversion. They also…
Your hosts
Mike DeHaanMike DeHaan started Collecting Keys in 2021 with his business partner Dan Austin to share what it actually takes to buy real estate at volume: the marketing,…
Dan AustinDan Austin has been Mike DeHaan's business partner since day one and has co-hosted Collecting Keys since the first episode. The two built and ran a…
Dylan KochDylan Koch was a pharmacist before he got into real estate. He learned the business from Mike and Dan as one of the early members of their SCALE Community…