
Accunet Mortgage & Realty Show 1-30-26
Published: January 30, 2026
Duration: 28:43
This week on The Accunet Mortgage and Realty Show, David Wickert and Tim Holdmann cut through the noise of mortgage rate marketing to reveal what really matters when financing your home.
The hosts explore why homeowners with sub-3% rates are moving anyway—spoiler: real life overrides the spreadsheets. Through client stories, they demonstrate how family needs, space requirements, and happiness consistently outweigh rate considerations for successful homebuyers.
The episode’s standout moment comes when David deconstructs a competitor’s “attractive” 5.49% rate offer that concealed $19,000 in closing costs. Using the gap between interest rate and APR, he shows l...