James Kirby

And then he did some numbers and he showed how you could make much more money elsewhere.

Well,

We did a survey, Jack, and we said, forget about rent money being dead money.

Financial advisor Jack Tossall thinks the bigger issue is the dollars left lying inside a home mortgage for decades, while tax deductible investment opportunities outside the family home get missed.

Now, here's a really interesting thing.

You know, we had 1,184 votes in.

polled.

And I'll tell you something, Jack, I get press releases and media releases all the time about surveys.

And I look at them and I ring them and I say, how many people were involved in this survey?

And they say a thousand.

So we've got more.

I don't take some of those seriously, but we've got more than some of those surveys.

So 1184 votes were polled.

The question was posed, is your home the worst investment you will ever make?

The number of people who said, no, that's not true, were, are you ready, 82%.

The number who said yes were 80%.

So I've got to tell you, you didn't convince many, Jack.

The numbers don't lie.

Very true.

It's not a, yeah, that's right.