How to Money · Monday, July 20, 2026
Hosts Joel and Matt discussed the unusual practice of virtually staging a pool in real estate listings. They agreed that while virtual staging of furniture is common to help buyers visualize spaces, staging an entire pool is dishonest and misleading, unlike staging a potential ADU or an extension of the house.
“Yes, oh okay, but no, no, no, they're not staging the deck so that like with a patio furniture, they're literally putting in a fake pool.”
“Okay, that's weird. Yeah, no, that's lying. I think.”
“Why not virtually stage Here's what an entirely new addition to the home would look like were you to add onto the house, right, that's just yeah, not cool.”