About Collecting Keys

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.

The hosts

• Mike DeHaan · Co-host and founder

  Mike 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, the deals that went sideways, and the systems behind a real estate business. Together they built and ran a seven-figure homebuying company. Today Mike and Dan co-own Sir Lends A Lot LLC, dba SLA Capital, which makes fix-and-flip, bridge and DSCR rental loans to real estate investors, and Mike still invests in rentals, flips and creative-finance deals.

• Dan Austin · Co-host

  Dan 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 seven-figure homebuying company together, where Dan ran the direct-mail and cold-calling marketing behind their off-market deals. He helped sell SimpliLeads, a marketing company, and today he is a 50/50 owner, with Mike, of Sir Lends A Lot LLC, dba SLA Capital.

• Dylan Koch · Co-host

  Dylan 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 (now retired), then left his six-figure W2 to build a seven-figure real estate business, a story he told on episode 300. He joined Collecting Keys as a co-host in 2024 and brings a much-needed level of intelligence to Mike and Dan's banter.

5 years of the show

1. 2021: Launch. Mike and Dan start the show on October 13, 2021 with weekly episodes about running a wholesaling business: direct mail, cold calling and the first hires.
2. 2022–2024: Interviews and scale. The show grows to three episodes a week: guest interviews on Mondays, news on Wednesdays and solo lessons on Fridays. More than 118 guests have been on, and the show has broadcast live from Keys Con in 2023 and 2024.
3. 2024: Dylan Koch joins. Dylan tells his W2-to-seven-figures story on episode 300 and becomes the third host.
4. 2025–today: Operators' commentary. The show moves to weekly episodes about markets, lending, creative finance and calling out bad actors in the real estate guru industry.