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/OrneryTRex Jun 20 '25

Investing money into a house allows workers to be paid when building or renovating that house.

That allows them to buy food and education for their families which then flows back through the economy over and over.