Comment by thewebguyd
6 days ago
When you do get the privilege of seeing the unit in person, yeah. This is obviously the case for most home sales.
But there are plenty of rental markets where you can be forced to rent without seeing that exact unit first. Common in big complexes, where you might get shown a "similar unit" or in markets where rental vacancy is so low that if you don't apply & sign within hours, you aren't getting that apartment because there's 20+ potential tenants for every rare vacancy. The current renal home I live in I rented without seeing it in person first because it was the only vacancy at the time, and in that market you must be first to sign the lease or you lose.
If the industry is currently so favourable to the landlord, then why would they need to alter images in the first place?
No one said they "need" to. But there is more generally more than one landlord in a market, and they might feel pressured to keep up with their competitors' use of AI.
Because it's all about revenue, and falsehoods help justify even higher prices.