Nov 4, 2026 · 29 min · 13 segments
Karl Miller from Karl Miller Realty talks about why most people are still glad they bought a home and is later joined by Todd Blake from Park View Community Mission to talk about the upcoming Holiday…
Well, the question is, are people still glad that they are homeowners? There was a poll that was sent out.
by MortgageRates.com in conjunction with Realtor.com, but I think MortgageRates.com and NerdWallet, I guess, did a survey, not Realtor.com on this one, NerdWallet.
And they interviewed a lot of buyers recently, and they were basically asking, which of the following best describes how you feel about buying your current home? And the answers range from I regret it at one end of the spectrum all the way up to I'm glad I did it on the other end of the spectrum.
And I think the big reason that so many people feel it's worth it is that real estate is a long play.
It's not a get-rich-quick scheme, buying a home, buying investment property, buying real estate.
Yeah.
I remember where I was About two weeks after I bought my house and moved in
am now.
Yeah.
And of course, you know, we've told the story a hundred times where I move in and my pipes burst under my house and have a $5,000 issue immediately.
Right.
And so I was probably about the, yeah, I kind of have mixed feelings about this.
Or
But then you gave it a couple more months and things settled down and everything like that.
And yeah, I mean...
Well, the question is, are people still glad that they are homeowners? There was a poll that was sent out.
by MortgageRates.com in conjunction with Realtor.com, but I think MortgageRates.com and NerdWallet, I guess, did a survey, not Realtor.com on this one, NerdWallet.
And they interviewed a lot of buyers recently, and they were basically asking, which of the following best describes how you feel about buying your current home? And the answers range from I regret it at one end of the spectrum all the way up to I'm glad I did it on the other end of the spectrum.
And I think the big reason that so many people feel it's worth it is that real estate is a long play.
It's not a get-rich-quick scheme, buying a home, buying investment property, buying real estate.
Yeah.
I remember where I was About two weeks after I bought my house and moved in
am now.
Yeah.
And of course, you know, we've told the story a hundred times where I move in and my pipes burst under my house and have a $5,000 issue immediately.
Right.
And so I was probably about the, yeah, I kind of have mixed feelings about this.
Or
But then you gave it a couple more months and things settled down and everything like that.
And yeah, I mean...
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