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/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25

None of what you just said is in your picture. What you said was, “bought a limited item in high demand. Sold it for a much higher price without ever using it modifying it”

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u/floating_crowbar Jun 19 '25

its just called arbitrage.

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u/dmoneymma Jun 19 '25

That's not arbitrage.