after making Speech legendary, do I get to invest again in the same shop if I get investor Perk again?

[dia7river]

I have invested in some shops with investor perk. after getting speech to legendary, what happens if I get investor perk again? do I get to invest to the same shops that I've invested before? Or is it no use? How about master trader? Can the increased amount of money the shop owners have go up more than 1500? And I'm not talking about the Riverwood Trader.

[alexander_dougherty]

I believe that once you make the skill legendary the investment disappears, reducing the money limit back down to the original, but you can reinvest if you buy back the perk.

[dia7river]

I've just tested becoming legendary after quicksaving, but it doesn't reduce the amount of money the shops that I invested have.

[voehringer_nitron]

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Speech

When resetting your Speech skill, you still retain your ability to invest in merchants, without having to have that perk or having a speech skill high enough to be able to get this perk. This is also true for Master Trader—all related merchants will still have 1000 more gold even after you lose the perk.

[Jouchebag]

But it's not stackable. You can't "reinvest" in shops.

[ziggurism]

@voehringer_nitron: in my experience that is not correct. Once you've taken your Speech skill legendary and lost the Investor perk, you can no longer invest in any merchants which you hadn't previously.

What _is_ true is that the merchants that you did invest in don't lose their higher wallet sizes. So if you make a point to invest with all the merchants before going legendary, you retain the benefits permanently.

That also applies to Master Trader perk. All merchants who were eligible for the 1000 gold wallet upgrade retain that upgrade, even after you go legendary and lose that perk.