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this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2026
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Yeah. Honestly, I don't really have a problem if a developer is just able to... not spend a bunch of money on a ton of furniture that'll get shuttled between different properties, not accidentally bang up a wall, etc, and just make a good looking listing image that accurately represents the space.
All the better if it can maybe lead at least some of the more mom & pop landlords to not charge more because they're looking to recoup staging costs.
Hell, I'd love it if I could look at a listing, and maybe get like 5 or 6 different options for how the space could look in very different styles, rather than the same, bland, generic palette of furniture and colors just because that's the only truly cost-effective option.
But of course, we can't have AI do anything good, that'd be ridiculous. It has to move the windows around and make the space look twice as big for no reason!
This is never, ever going to happen, not even once. No landlord will ever willingly lower the price of anything. They'll just keep charging the same price and pocket the difference. They don't run charities.
The staging costs are a drop in the bucket relative to the extra $ they're bringing in just by better marketing the space. Like one month of upsell from an empty box to a staged apartment likely covers those costs - everything else is pure profit.
They're pricing things based on what the "market" will support, and that doesn't change whether they spend $200 staging or $2 AI staging. Mom and pop landlords are still wealth parasites trying to maximize profits.