Buy a Home or Invest Instead?

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Investing, Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Am I better off continuing to rent and investing my commission checks in the stock market or should I be looking to buy?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Friday, October 31st. Halloween. What of my least favorite holidays? I like that. Mark's already done the monster mash. I guess I'll watch the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown, which is, you know, maybe the only way that I honor most holidays is with peanuts.
0:24.3	And I hope that you are having fun as you prepare for Halloween.
0:28.2	Mark, what's your opinion of adults who get into Halloween?
0:34.0	Not a fan, not a fan.
0:35.5	Not a fan.
0:36.4	But we love it for the kids. Mark, this will be your second year of doing your trick-or-treating in the neighborhood, right? Yeah, yeah, that's true. And I will say, where I live in this area of Brooklyn, I mean, they go all out. Some people wait all year for this one day. Oh, man. They go all. I mean, they shot the streets down.
0:55.5	Oh, it's like the Diker Heights of like that?
0:58.5	Okay.
0:58.8	Diker Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn where it's very famous for their Christmas decoration.
1:05.6	So your neighborhood being very famous for the Halloween.
1:09.1	Well, listen, good for you, good for Theo. Happy Halloween to everybody.
1:14.2	For everyone else, all this means is there's only two months left in the year. I can't even,
1:18.7	Mark, so crazy. So that means you really have to focus. I'm guessing that there's probably about
1:26.7	six weeks before the end of the year where you can
1:30.3	hyper focus on something financial, like the next three weeks, three and a half weeks,
1:34.8	before Thanksgiving, then it's the first couple of weeks of December, and then you're done.
1:38.7	You're shutting your brain down. I get it. But if you are really considering what kind of tax and financial planning moves to make before
1:47.2	the end of the calendar year, I will encourage you to subscribe to Jill on Money Live. Our next
1:53.7	quarterly live webinar is on Wednesday, November 19th. We are going to do year-end tax and financial planning with a wonderful
2:04.4	certified financial planner named Janet Davis.
2:07.1	And there are a lot of moves that you may want to consider before the end of the year.
2:10.3	I will tell you one of the big ones that I've already made is charitable giving.
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