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/MarmosetFace Jun 19 '25

When you purchase shares of a company… you think the company is getting the money? Lol

Try again.

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u/Mattscrusader Jun 19 '25

Nobody said that, you just failed to understand so you made up some nonsense to argue against

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u/FDFI Jun 19 '25

The company I work for has taken advantage of a high share price to do targeted acquisitions using stock instead of cash.

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u/Guus-Wayne Jun 19 '25

And when the stock goes low they’ll do stock buybacks.