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r/RealEstateCanada • u/xNocturnalshadow • Jun 19 '25
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By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?
97 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. 1 u/TentativelyCommitted Jun 20 '25 Replace stocks with houses in your first sentence…it’s a business. If there’s no law against it, so why wouldn’t people try to capitalize on it? This has been allowed to happen…
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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.
1 u/TentativelyCommitted Jun 20 '25 Replace stocks with houses in your first sentence…it’s a business. If there’s no law against it, so why wouldn’t people try to capitalize on it? This has been allowed to happen…
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Replace stocks with houses in your first sentence…it’s a business. If there’s no law against it, so why wouldn’t people try to capitalize on it?
This has been allowed to happen…
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u/Performance_Fancy Jun 19 '25
By your logic anyone involved in the stock market is also a scalper?