If you're listening on with Ben Carlson of a wealth of common sense, Ben did a post about why real estate as an asset class and and your house price specifically can't really be compared to how the stock market is done and we

tweeted it out this morning and people are going crazy like hundreds of comments on this.

First of all, why do you think people react in such a big way

whenever you write about housing as an investment? It's such a, I mean obviously

there's this whole stuff about the American dream and it's the biggest investment of

your life but I mean it's such a

personal asset to you and people have such a personal stake in it so it's it is

crazy I shouldn't be surprised anymore but I kind of am every time I'm right about the housing market,

there's tons of feedback and tons of comments and questions and people pushing back, and it's

obviously a topic that strikes a lot of emotion for people.

So the best, to me, the best point that you make, and there's a lot of good points, and we'll

link to the post in the notes, but the best point that you make is that looking at the price

appreciation of your own house and then saying you see that was better than the stock market

It's almost like saying it's almost like saying I bought this one stock 30 years ago and it turned out to be Berkshire Hathaway.

Like it's almost like an impossible way of looking at it but people can't help themselves

because their only real

experience is their own experience yes and we're dealing with big numbers too and

then there's those stories where one my grandparents bought a house in the

1930s for three thousand dollars or whatever it and look at how much it's worth now.

So I think it's just it's hard for people to wrap their head around because it is such a big

number and they have this sort of big emotional investment in it.

But comparing it to stocks is just,

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