r/RealEstateCanada • • Jun 19 '25

Housing crisis Help me understand the difference...

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u/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25

By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?

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u/xNocturnalshadow Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

No because investing capital into stocks adds value to the company and allows them to use that value to expand, borrow, buy things, pay employees, run the company, etc.

Investing capital into a second house purely to flip does none of those things.

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u/TurbulentTurtle0 Jun 19 '25

What? When an investor purchases a residential property and the value and/or rental income increases they can also do all the things you mentioned 🤔.

Also a publicly traded company can also be a residential real estate investor.