About
Built by a working agent, for his own listings
I'm Ali Annabi. I'm a licensed real estate agent in the Greater Toronto Area, and I built VirtuallyStage because I kept needing it. Empty condos that photographed cold. Tenanted houses I couldn't clear before the shoot. Listings where the difference between a booked showing and a scroll-past was one photo.
Ali Annabi
Licensed Real Estate Agent · Greater Toronto Area
You don't have to take my word for the licence. My registration is public:
Verify my REALTOR® profile on realtor.caWhy I built this instead of buying it
I tried the existing tools. Most of them push furniture removal and staging through one model, and it shows — smeared floors, ghost shadows where a sofa used to be, walls that bend. The subscriptions assumed I listed at a steady rate, which is not how a normal pipeline works. Some months I have five listings. Some months I have none.
So VirtuallyStage is priced per photo with no subscription, and it runs a dedicated removal engine separate from the staging engine. Both of those decisions came from being the customer first.
Why I write the compliance research myself
When I started using virtually staged photos on my own listings, I went looking for the rule and couldn't find a straight answer. What I found instead were vendor blogs confidently citing statutes that don't say what they claim — including one asserting a disclosure requirement in a province whose real estate act doesn't contain the word “misleading.”
So I read the primary sources myself: every provincial regulator, every statute, and every MLS rulebook I could get. That research is public, quoted verbatim, and linked back to the source, including the places where I couldn't verify something and say so.
What I am and what I'm not
I'm a practising agent who reads the rules carefully. I am not a lawyer, and nothing I publish is legal advice. Every compliance page on this site says so, quotes its source, and tells you to confirm with your own board or regulator before you rely on it.
I'd rather publish a page that admits a gap than one that fills it with something plausible. If you spot something wrong — or you have access to a board rulebook I couldn't reach — I genuinely want to hear about it.
Contact
Journalists, brokerages and educators: the compliance research on this site may be quoted with attribution — every page carries a copy-paste citation. If you need a source checked, a figure confirmed, or a comment on Canadian virtual staging rules, email the address above and it reaches me.