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How should I judge a Saskatoon agent's AI-generated marketing and automated valuation claims?

Judge them the way you would judge any other claim: ask what data sits underneath and ask to see it. An automated valuation is a model run on public records, and public records in Saskatchewan come from Information Services Corporation and the City of Saskatoon. Neither one records a renovation carried out without a permit.

Start with accuracy in the listing itself. AI written descriptions routinely invent details, and a listing that misstates the floor area, the bedroom count, the age of the roof or the legality of a basement suite is a misrepresentation problem for the seller, not a software problem. Every agent is accountable for their advertising under the Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission's rules regardless of what tool produced the words.

Then look at the images. Virtual staging and digital enhancement are legitimate when disclosed and misleading when they are not, and removing a power pole, brightening a north facing room beyond reality or staging a room that does not exist all cross the line. Ask for a plain statement of which images are virtually staged, and expect it in writing.

On valuation specifically, the honest test is whether a number can be defended. Ask for the sold comparables from the last 90 days, the dates, the adjustments and the walkthrough notes. A tool can generate a starting figure in seconds, but only a person who has stood in the basement knows what is down there. Joel Dyck's hand-reviewed valuation supplies that reasoning.

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