Punch Your Agent

Joel Nichols has been Mike & Daniel's friend for over 30 years, and these days he sells roofs at Elite Roofing. In this episode of Punch Your Agent, Joel breaks down what makes a good roofing company, the roof mistakes homeowners keep making, and what to watch for before you sign with anyone. Then it gets personal. When a tornado tore through the neighborhood, Joel ended up feeding a neighborhood...

This week Daniel and Mike sit down with their best friend Charlie Carlisle, drummer for the Houston band FacePlant, band booking agent, and rental property owner. Charlie takes us on the road, traveling the world playing concerts with his bands, then breaks down life as a booking agent and why negotiating a club deal is a lot like negotiating a real estate deal. Knowing what you're doing makes all...

Lake life sounds like a dream, but buying or selling lake property comes with its own set of surprises. On Episode 43 of Punch Your Agent, we sit down with Angelina Adams, a Realtor who works the Lake Livingston area, to talk about what it's really like selling property around the lake. Angelina shares what it's like walking land and showing homes off dirt roads, including some seriously broken-do...

Real estate school teaches you contracts. It doesn't teach you this. Matt Kelderman, a Realtor with 13 years in the business, sits down with Daniel Nolan and Mike Shipman for real talk about the job: wild stories from the field, the strange stuff agents see, and what it's really like dealing with other agents on the other side of a deal. Real Talk. Real Estate. No BS. In this episode: • The 5-foot...

Property managers see everything. Susan Taylor of TaylorMade Realty joins Daniel Nolan and Mike Shipman with the war stories from years of managing Houston-area rentals: trashed move-outs, wild rent excuses, squatters, nightmare owners, and what happens when you call a judge by his first name in court. Real Talk. Real Estate. No BS. In this episode: • Worst thing she’s ever opened a door and found...

Episode 40 : Selling The Hood & Guns Drawn (w/ Oscar "The Iron Agent" Olivares) by Punch Your Agent

Shawn Williamson is back on Punch Your Agent, the probate attorney who kicked off the show in Episode 2. In Episode 39, Daniel and Mike sit down again with Shawn for a straighter, heavier hour: wills, family fights over houses, what happens when a property has to be divided and someone still lives there, how AI is starting to touch estate documents, and Shawn's move opening his own practice after...

The Loan Chief is in the building! and he's not here for soft mortgage talk. In Episode 38, Daniel and Mike sit down with Matt Moghaddam (@theloanchief) ? California lender, Loan Factory, Offroad guy, new dad for a no-BS episode on the viral "just rent and buy stocks" take, Orange County cost of living that'll make your jaw drop, and the lender war stories agents actually need to hear. Real Talk....

``` Monica Branch is back on Punch Your Agent — and she’s still one of the guests people won’t stop talking about. In Episode 37, Daniel and Mike sit down with returning Houston realtor Monica Branch (JLA Realty / BranchOut) for a comedy-first hour of real estate war stories: wild showings, the Christmas-tree test, listing autopsies on the craziest homes you’ve ever seen, and the follow-ups we sho...

Sam Montoya spent more than 20 years in public service, including major crimes investigations, before jumping into real estate in El Paso. In this episode, we talk about going from badge and gun to house keys, how detective instincts carry over into real estate, the red flags most people miss, the weird human side of the business, and why selling homes can still feel like solving a case.

Episode 35: Live At Dan Electro's (w Shaun Brennan, Ben Randall, Brian Boudar & Chris Parrott) by Punch Your Agent

Join Daniel and Mike as they dive into the turbulent world of open houses in this revealing episode of Punch Your Agent. Fresh from a series of open houses, they share their hilarious tales of hits, misses, and even a rogue smoke alarm. From the highs of a well-attended event to the lows of sitting alone in an empty house, they’ve seen it all. And they’re not holding back - you’ll hear the unfilte...

Victoria Kelderman got into real estate this past February — and just a few months later, she fell 5 feet through a hole in a garage floor during a showing, with no warning at all. In this episode of Punch Your Agent, Victoria tells the full story: the fall itself, her injuries, and having her own client pull her back out of the hole. Her story blew up online, racking up 1.6 million views and even...

Bryan Casella came on Punch Your Agent and did not hold back. From pro athlete to real estate success, from California to Miami, from social media controversy to team-building lessons, Bryan tells the kind of stories most agents would never say out loud. We also get into a possibly haunted house, a fraudulent deal involving fake paperwork, Lamborghinis, AI, ChatGPT, and why real agents still matte...

Michael Hamilton isn’t in real estate — but he’s lived more of it than a lot agents. Over 10 years, Daniel helped him buy his first home during a booming market, sell it to move into Houston’s Woodland Heights before getting engaged, and eventually upgrade to a new construction home in the Greater Heights as his family grew. Then came the twist: selling the Woodland Heights house wasn’t as simple...

Ty Smith joins Punch Your Agent this week, and things get wild fast. Ty’s a 20+ year lending veteran and Branch Manager at New American Funding — and he’s got the stories to prove it, starting with the time he actually got into a fistfight at an open house. We cover a lot of ground in this one: what really moves the Fed’s interest rate decisions, current housing market conditions, whether we’re ac...

Matt Loftin and Daniel have been friends for over 30 years — so when he’s back in town, we usually end up hanging out and talking for hours. This time we got it on the podcast. Matt’s well-traveled, well-educated, and always good for a conversation, and this one’s a good one. We talked about what originally made him want to leave Texas and try living in different places around the world, how he en...

Ever tell yourself you rent because you like the flexibility? Because you can just leave if you get a bad neighbor? Yeah — we’ve heard that one before. In this episode, Daniel and Mike sit down with Josh, a lifelong renter who is finally considering buying his first home. Josh comes in with every excuse in the book, and we break down every single one of them in real time. What you’ll hear in this...

ChatGPT ranked all 50 states on the best place to live right now — and it put Texas at number one. So naturally, we had to talk about it. In this episode, Daniel and Mike break down why an AI finally got something right. No state income tax, a booming job market, housing costs 17% below the national average, and enough cultural range that pretty much anybody can find their lane here. The robot did...

The real estate stories your agent will never tell you — until now. This week we sit down with Chris Boyles, Broker and Team Leader of CB Realty, and he did not hold back. Squatters who showed up with a fake lease and took over a listing before it even hit the market. A multimillion-dollar mansion taken over by squatters who shot music videos inside, put rifle clips in the windows to warn off comp...

He was supposed to be closing on his house today. Instead, he’s here. In Episode 25 of Punch Your Agent, Daniel sits down with one of his best friends and former bandmates — Ryan Haislip, a financial advisor and two-time client. Daniel sold him his first home. His second one? Still waiting. Ryan gives us the real buyer experience — what it actually feels like to sit in a delayed closing with a str...

**Randall Martin joins Punch Your Agent to talk about what actually makes a great Realtor, what buyers and sellers still get wrong, and what separates real professionals from the agents just going through the motions.** **Then the episode takes a turn when lightning hits in the middle of Randall telling a creepy story about a house with a hidden room full of Boy Scout outfits. Yes, really.** **Thi...

“What HGTV Ruined About Real Estate” In this episode of Punch Your Agent, Daniel and Mike break down the HGTV effect — the expectations, the delusions, the DIY disasters, and the renovation fantasies that have completely warped how buyers think real estate actually works. From “We can flip this house in a weekend for $12” to “Every home should look like a staged farmhouse with shiplap,” the guys d...

Jeff Robertson returns to Punch Your Agent for a conversation about how easy it was to sell houses during Covid, why that easy-money era is over, and what today’s market looks like for agents and clients now. We also get into some classic Jeff stories, from filling in last minute after a guest canceled, to firing an agent for threatening to hit somebody, to a family who walked into a house before...

Credit scores, lending secrets, and why now might actually be the right time to buy — 25-year lending veteran William Stewart joins the show to break it all down. We cover what lenders really see when they pull your credit, lessons from the pre-housing crash era, the 50-year mortgage, transferable interest rates, and the biggest mistakes buyers make before closing. Informative, real, and zero suga...