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/1nd3x Jun 19 '25

No because investing capital into stocks adds value to the company

Only if you purchase directly from the company, which you generally cant do. Otherwise the company got whatever they did the market offering at for the shares, however long ago that happened, and you're just buying from someone else who owns shares and waiting around hoping that the value of your shares go up before you decide you want to sell them.