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Investor is a perk that becomes available when the Dragonborn reaches 70 in the Speech skill. Using this perk allows the Dragonborn to invest 500 Gold in certain shops and merchants. The effect is that the shops in which the Dragonborn has invested will have 500 Gold more with which to barter. It will also count as a favor, and allow items to be taken from the business.

As a general rule, each shop can only be invested in once, though there are some exceptions (read below). The Dragonborn may also invest in the shop that their spouse owns.

Effect[]

Can invest 500 gold with a shopkeeper to increase their available gold permanently.

Shops & traders available to invest in[]

City Trader
Dawnstar
Falkreath
Markarth
Morthal
Raven Rock
Riften
Riverwood
Shor's Stone
Solitude

Windhelm

Winterhold
Whiterun
Other

Exploits[]

Lucan Valerius gold Skyrim
  •  PS3   In order to avoid too many "Days Passed/Hours Waited/Slept," any Merchant's funds can be restocked by restarting the game (must exit to the PS start screen, not the game's title screen), then selecting "Continue." This exploit renders this perk as well as Master Trader slightly less useful. However, the merchant will only pay the full price of any transaction if their total funds are not exceeded. These two perks increase their total funds, and therefore, are useful when selling expensive gear.
  •  PS3   It is possible to preserve this perk's benefits after making the Speech skill legendary (after installing patch 1.9). This can be done by getting the investor perk, investing in every available merchant, increase speech skill to 100 and converting the speech skill to Legendary. Despite returning all perk points, the investments remain and merchants will have more money available. This also works with the Master Trader perk which together with investor will give most merchants approximately 2,500 coin making it much easier to level speech back to 100.

Bugs[]

This section contains bugs related to Investor. Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following:

  1. Please reload an old save to confirm if the bug is still happening.
  2. If the bug is still occurring, please post the bug report with the appropriate system template  360  /  XB1  ,  PS3  /  PS4  ,  PC  /  MAC  ,  NX  /  PS5  ,  XS  , depending on which platform(s) the bug has been encountered on.
  3. Be descriptive when listing the bug and fixes, but avoid having conversations in the description and/or using first-person anecdotes: such discussions belong on the appropriate forum board.
  •  PC   360   PS3   The merchants listed below can be invested on indefinitely, but they might not restock more than 500 Gold.
    • Angeline Morrard in Angeline's Aromatics.
    • Warmaiden's, Ulfberth War-Bear. After investing in his wife Adrianne Avenicci outside, he will no longer take multiple investments.
    • Revyn Sadri in Sadri's Used Wares.
  •  PC   360   PS3   Sometimes the Dragonborn may be unable to invest in their spouse.
  • Ghorza gra-Bagol (blacksmith in Markarth) will agree to allow the Dragonborn to invest, but then the dialog for them to do so may only show the back-out option.
  • The option to invest in Sadri's Used Wares may not appear. This is due to a mistake in the scripting for the investor quest linking Sadri to Whiterun instead of Windhelm.
  • Fihada in Solitude has the investment dialogue, allowing you to pay him 500 gold to invest in his store. However, investing in him has no actual effect (his gold is not permanently increased).
  • Investing in Ghorza gra-Bagol or Tacitus Sallustius will give you an extra 500 septims with Moth as well. However, he cannot be invested in directly.
  • Investing in Arnleif and Sons Trading Company may be unavailable after completing "The Taste of Death."
  • Lucan Valerius in the Riverwood Trader may have a sum of 10,000 Gold or more.
    • Fix: Patch 1.9 fixed this exploit. Lucan should only have 1,250 gold after the Dragonborn invest in his business.
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