And by the way? Since Person A now owns their own house and this other house, they're gonna rent the second one out to Person B for 2k per month. So in just a few years they'll have the house *and* Person B's $100k that wasn't enough to buy the house because Person A drove the cost up. A few years after that, they'll use that rental income to fund snatching a house out from Person C as well. And so on.But of course, Person A is just being smart with their money. If only we were all so clever.