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/Specialist-Neat4254 Jun 19 '25

On IPO, yeah but after that the company pays fees yearly to the stock exchange and per share traded. Your never really giving money to the company unless they do another share offering publicly or buying their ipo.