So you're saying you bought $325k of Nortel stock at the same time you bought a $325k house in 1986?  If not, then your example is both hypothetical and extreme (and in the case of Nortel, absurd) and not factual at all.  If you did have $325k to put into Nortel, why would you buy only a $325k house?  

My guess is that you missed out on the run up on bank stocks and have been bitter about it ever since.  Perhaps you needed a better advisor.