Why You Should Try and Buy a Home in 2026

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Michael Zuber (1:01)

All righty, folks, I hope you are paying attention because this might be counterintuitive to some of you out there, and we're certainly piss off a lot of the do-mers. We're going to talk about why you, yes, you should try and buy a home in 2026 Don't know if you've seen the numbers, Matt, I'm sure you have, but record low demand supply is growing. The world is ending. Real estate will never be the same ever. But why?

Why will the smart people try and buy a property this year? What say you?

Matt (1:32)

Well, I mean, you know, it's the same as COVID. You know, COVID took me to a whole new level of wealth.

And it wasn't because it was the easy path, it was the much harder path. How many people were telling you, we're all screwed, don't buy anything in COVID, don't buy a house, don't like, we are screwed, no one's going to pay their rent, society is going to flip on its head.

Michael Zuber (1:56)

We're in trouble. Lots of people.

I had several people almost laughing at me. Yes, same. Because I had this channel, right? 2018, you know, let's just round numbers up to 200 units, a lot of haters out there. And I don't know, probably 30% of my comments were people telling me I'm going to go bankrupt and got to go get a job. So yeah, I had a lot of nasty comments.

Matt (2:19)

The only answer that I had for everybody was what does your $100,000 a year job do to qualify you to have an opinion on my wealth?

Michael Zuber (2:28)

Well, I got to tell you, I mean, I still remember the morning, it was probably a week after the economy shut down. I woke up in a panic. So I set up a whole new communication structure with my team. I got daily reports.

Because again, we could survive, I think we did the math one time, we could have survived at like 30 or 33% non-payment. But if it got to 50%, that would have been a problem. And again, it was my first pandemic.

SPEAKER_2 (2:54)

I didn't know what was coming, right?

Michael Zuber (2:56)

I didn't know what the government was going to do. But I remember being scared for probably, I like actually scared probably for two weeks.

Matt (3:04)

Yeah.

Michael Zuber (3:04)

Until I kind of saw what was happening around us. I'm like, oh, all right, they're just going to print a gazillion dollars and this is going to be nothing.

Matt (3:11)

A gazillion dollars.

You know, kind of just watching the scenario, right? Watching the scenario and just saying, you know what? The government's not going to let the economy fail.

Michael Zuber (3:22)

Right.

Matt (3:22)

We are still the best investment option anywhere in the world. And for those who are like, wow, China growth, blah, blah. Hey, dude, communist country, enjoy not getting your return back. There's a lot of problems with investing in China.

Michael Zuber (3:34)

Yeah.

Matt (3:35)

There are a ton of problems. And it's only people that don't forget return of capital is more than the return on capital.

SPEAKER_2 (3:41)

Exactly.

Matt (3:43)

Perfectly said.

So and people just don't know that, right? Because they haven't been investing high enough to understand that literally companies have disappeared overnight. Capital has disappeared overnight and you're cooked. So why am I buying a house today?

Coincidentally, Michael, I am spending the most money I have ever spent buying a house this month.

Michael Zuber (4:07)

Yeah. Most I've ever.