All Forum Posts by: Iliya Muzychuk

Hey everyone, new in the area and would to get recommendations for good contractors that can help me build an ADU. Not too big, not too small.

If you know anyone feel fee to share! 

You should check it out as a designer, It's a great tool for creativity and communication with clients in the early phases! 

Been doing some more research and tryouts for image generation in real estate. I thought of sharing it here for others to try as well. 

So in short, the past six months have been quite an adventure, left my day job, started a business, and moving to AR to start my own path as an architect-developer. In the interim, I have been exploring the use of AI for my day-to-day practices and thought would be nice to share with the community. My previous post was about GPTs, now would love to chat about Stable Diffusion Models and Image generation for interior/exterior inspiration. 

I use mainly three different AI vendors, which are Midjourney, Dall-e & Stable Diffusion. While the first two are great for inspiration, the last one offers much more image control based on what is called ControlNets, which allows control of the composition and weights of an image. It can read an image and apply a new image within context. For example, let's stage an empty room, remodel a facade, do a new bathroom idea etc. 

There are three main workflows I find promising so far, sketch to image, model to image and image to image which I will describe below: 

Sketch to Image - By using a local installation of Stable Diffusion, you can create image generation workflows and adapt them for your uses. For example an architecture style, graphic style, exterior vs interior and so forth. It requires technical knowledge yet is super adaptive and open source and once controlled, you can easily scan sketches of ideas and convert them to realistic renderings. 
 
Model to Image - Some apps such as Veras connect to your Sketchup/Rhino/Revit software and can directly render simple masses into final results. Easy to install but requires you to have prior design software knowledge. 

Image to Image - There are many AI apps out there online that can modify images. Won't market a specific one (Feel free to reach out privately), but those are easy to use, nontechnical, and provide okay + results. I find it quite useful with clients, or just trying to envision ideas on potential properties.

All of them are based on ControlNets and StableDiffusion, so if you have a bit of tech savviness I would recommend testing it out locally and start exploring it for your uses. For direct SD installation, you can use Automatic1111 here:https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui or use web native apps like Rendair to test it out on the web without much of a commitment. 

I've attached a sample of work from an existing image from Zillow, and an AI rendering as an example. Feel free to connect for questions and would love to learn how others are using AI in their day-to-day business operations. 

Have a great day! 

I think LLMs in real estate are promising just due to the shear amount of information we share in the creation of permit/construction documents. From an architecture stand point, we use tremendous amount of textual data such as zoning codes, contracts, building codes, proposals, specifications, communication logs, meeting notes and more. You'd think it is drawings that take the space, but most of the work is administrative (70% or so). For example my previous firm had about 8TB of data for just current projects, that gives you a sense of scale. 

We spend so much time tracking back the data and decision reasoning chasing like rabits through folders to find the reasoning of changes and omissions. Any minor change could be a reason for legal action in the future so we have to keep everything on records for years. 

LLMs definitely could be super handy, and also help us increase the quality of the projects and consturction documents we produce. Now when everything is moving to BIM they probably can even query the models and give us better insights as well. 

I am definitely exploring where this technology can be handy, started my own path and seeing the benefits of using generative image creations, language models, and even co pilot to write simple code for my design models. There is a field called generative design that combined with generative AI create powerful workflows to deliver design documentation quickly and I am just wandering curiously in that domain at the moment. 

I used openAI's custom GPT builder, and uploaded engineering documents for it to review. It used Vision to read through some of them, some successfully and some less. But these days I've navigated more into MidJourney to do quick feasibility studies and renderings for realtors and investors. I've created a combo workflow of generative design with generative AI for these type of studies. 

What type of company do you have? Would love to learn more how you use AI in real esate! 

 Not yet! But looks really cool, will try it out on some city guidelines research! 

I've been testing it for the past month, and I'd say the marketing aspect is much stronger than creating your GPTs. The latter tend to fail and be less accurate than expected although I am sure it will improve over time and the cost of creating personal GPTs will decrease as well. 

Coming from an architectural background, I now use Midjourney to create a visualization for potential development/remodeling of properties, ChatGPT for reading/writing and Analytics, and sometimes Github's co-pilot to create custom code for my workflows. 

In short I can say the experiment is delivering many surprises, but you must be able to subtask each tool and know what to expect to utilize it to it's best. I am sure we will see more coming up in the next months, especially once Microsoft's co-pilot is fully out there. 

Hi Dave, I use data quite often to evaluate nearby deals and use APIs to do my comps. As for AI, it is a huge time saver for me and something I'm super curious about. I am an architect by default, so I use it to create Python code for me to run with my design software. Cuts time on production and design, and gives me real-time feedback regarding my proposals. Lately been playing with the new GPTs and finding them incredibly useful from guidelines to underwriting and even reading construction documents.

Real estate is super fragmented, so there's no one killer app, but I feel that there's a lot to save by using tailored workflows that increases productivity and deliver more profits.

So did a quick run and fed the GPT with a link explaining the BRRRR Method. He responded the following (I will test more strategies but for a quick 2 minute test it is quite fascinating):

Truly incredible technology, I use it to write Python code to execute design ideas. Let alone concept renderings and market research. Those who don't adopt it will be left behind and this is will restructure all industries IMO. Wish governments would adopt it so they can start being effective.