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Virtual staging for property managers

Vacant units, furnished in the photo.

Send the whole unit, not just one room. The photos you already took on the walkthrough come back furnished, usually the next business day, every image labelled, the original attached, and a line you can paste into the ad.

Original image: Empty rental living room, furnished
Virtually staged: Empty rental living room, furnished
Staged
Original
Empty rental living room, furnishedAn ordinary unit, furnished so a renter can read the size

V-Stage is based in Kelowna, and you deal with the same person every time: rooms are staged with AI, and we check every image against your original before it reaches you.

Selling rather than renting, or shooting the photos yourself? There’s a page for listing agents and one for photographers.

“The unit rents unfurnished. Is that honest?”

Every image is labelled, the original comes with it, and you get a line for the ad saying the unit is unfurnished. That is the standard real estate regulators set for a staged photo, and it is a sound one to hold to in a rental: BC Financial Services Authority’s Artificial Intelligence Guideline.

“There’s still a tenant in there.”

Their things come out of the photo digitally. Nobody re-shoots an occupied unit.

“What does one unit cost?”

C$100 for the unit, and your first image is free.

The unit that isn’t empty yet

Notice is in. The tenant is still there.

This is the normal case, and it is the one that makes photos awkward. The unit has to go up before it is empty, so the only pictures available are full of someone else’s life. The listing ends up marketing the tenant instead of the unit.

Their belongings come out
The room is cleared digitally and furnished from scratch. Nobody has to move anything, and nobody re-shoots an occupied unit.
You confirm what was hidden
A photo cannot show the floor under a couch. We will ask you to confirm the condition of anything the furniture was covering.
Worth a word with your broker
Using photos taken while someone is still living there raises a consent question. It is worth raising internally before it becomes a complaint.

Examples

See how an ordinary unit reads.

Demonstration rooms, run through the same pipeline that would run on your photos. Drag the slider to compare.

Original image: Lived-in family room, cleared and restaged
Virtually staged: Lived-in family room, cleared and restaged
Staged
Original
Lived-in family room, cleared and restagedTheir furniture out, the room furnished from scratch. Nobody moves anything.
Original image: Empty dining nook, furnished
Virtually staged: Empty dining nook, furnished
Staged
Original
Empty dining nook, furnishedThe awkward corner every unit has, given a use a renter recognises.
Original image: Empty bedroom, furnished
Virtually staged: Empty bedroom, furnished
Staged
Original
Empty bedroom, furnishedAnswers the question a renter actually has: does my furniture fit.

The honest bit

Those rooms are demonstrations, not a client’s unit.

The staging is real work by the same pipeline that would run on your photos. The rooms themselves are samples, because no property manager has sent us one yet. You would rather hear that from us than work it out later.

So send us a unit. We’ll stage a room free, and if you like the result and you’re happy for us to use it, it goes on this page as the first real one.

Where the market is

Renters have more to choose from than they did.

In our own market, CMHC put Central Okanagan vacancy at 6.4% in 2025, the highest of any major Canadian metro, and City of Kelowna one-bedrooms at 9.1%. Your market is its own number, and you know it better than we do.

That is a fact about the market, not a claim about photographs. We have no data showing staging changes how quickly a unit rents. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey.

Staying honest

Furniture can change. The unit shouldn’t.

There is a real objection buried in this, and it is worth putting on the table rather than waiting for you to raise it. The Province tells landlords this about advertising a unit that rents unfurnished:

“When advertising an unfurnished unit, landlords should try not to use photos that show furniture, as it can create the wrong impression.”

Province of BC, List and show a rental unit (opens in a new tab)

The same page says a listing should mention when a unit will be unfurnished. So that sentence ships with the photos, written for you:

“Photos are virtually staged. This unit is rented unfurnished.”

Paste it into the ad. That is the whole fix, and it is the piece nobody else hands you.

A label on every image

Each staged photo carries a visible Virtually Staged mark. It is a plain disclosure, not a logo.

The original comes back too

The untouched file ships in the same package, so the real room is always one click away.

Only movable things are meant to move

Room size, layout, flooring, built-ins, fixtures and visible condition are meant to stay as photographed, and the original ships beside every staged image so anyone can compare. Send back anything that differs and it’s redone. Window dressing counts as furnishing, so blinds or curtains may be restyled, but the window itself and the view through it should not change.

If you hold a BCFSA licence, the regulator’s advertising guidance says not to alter a photo in any way that would misrepresent the property, and that changing a physical characteristic of it is not acceptable. Furniture is movable. Walls are not. That is the line this service is built around — and it is the line every advertising regulator draws, in every province and state, however differently each one words it. Your own rules stay yours to check; this service is built so that checking them does not turn up a problem. Read the guidance (opens in a new tab).

Worth saying plainly: this is what we have read, not legal advice. Your managing broker is the person to confirm it with.

How it works

Three steps, on a turnover timeline.

No software to learn, no account, nothing to install. Phone photos are fine.

  1. Step 1: Send the unit

    Notice is in and you have photos, even phone photos. Share the folder they are in and paste the link, or upload a couple directly, with the address and anything we should know about the rooms.

  2. Step 2: Staged, then checked

    Each room is furnished digitally with AI, then we check every image against the original before it leaves. Anything uncertain gets held rather than sent.

  3. Step 3: Get the set back

    Original photos, staged images with a Virtually Staged label, a disclosure note, and a line you can paste into the listing.

Pricing

Priced by the unit, not by the photo.

One unit is one job. Two things add to it: a room the furniture has to come out of first, and images past the included count. Your quote is confirmed before any work starts.

C$100

a unit

Up to 10 staged images, which is well past what a rental listing usually runs. A one-bedroom is normally three or four.

  • First staged image free, so you can see the work before you spend anything.
  • C$25 for a room whose furniture has to come out first, charged once per room however many angles.
  • Free revisions included for practical fixes to a delivered image.
  • Several units at once is fine. Each is quoted as its own job, on one invoice.

Founding-client pricing applies to your first 3 paid listings. Scope is confirmed when your photos arrive, and anything different is invoiced or refunded before work starts.

What you get back

One package per unit, ready to go straight onto whichever listing site you use.

  • The staged images, each carrying a Virtually Staged label
  • Your original photos, untouched, in the same folder
  • A short disclosure note for your records
  • The listing line: “Photos are virtually staged. This unit is rented unfurnished.”

Questions before you send anything? Call 250-864-9446 and you will get the person who checks every image.

FAQ

The practical questions.

What a unit costs, what changes in the photo, what to tell renters, and where you stay responsible.

C$100 for the unit, covering up to 10 staged images, which is more than a rental listing usually needs. One unit is one job. If a room still has furniture in it that has to come out first, that room is C$25, charged once however many angles you want of it. Your first image is free.

Free sample

One unit. Staged free.

This form handles one or two photos. For a batch of units, share the folder your photos are in and there is no size limit.

Send one unit. It’s free.

Send the photos from a vacant or still-occupied unit and we’ll stage one at no charge. If it’s useful, we’ll quote the rest before anything starts. If it isn’t, that’s the end of it.

* means required.

Up to 8 photos, 4 MB total: JPG, PNG, WebP, or HEIC. Sending a whole listing? Share a folder link instead.

You’ll get it back staged, beside your original, usually the next business day.

By sending, you confirm you have the right to have these photos edited, and agree they are processed by OpenAI and Anthropic and stored in a private Google Drive folder — see our privacy policy and terms. Ask us to delete them at any time.

Send one unit, free