Free guide for Texas license holders
Where AI Helps a Realtor (and Where It Gets You in Trouble)
A Green / Yellow / Red decision map. It sorts what you can hand to AI, what needs a human before it leaves your desk, and what I do not let AI touch at all.
The finding: Texas has no AI rule yet
As of September 5, 2026 there is no TREC rule, advisory, or formal guidance on AI use by Texas license holders. TREC's Broker Responsibility Advisory Committee discussed AI on July 14, 2026. It was a discussion, with no rule proposed. Texas REALTORS has published no formal AI guidance.
The absence is the finding. Your exposure does not run through an AI-specific rule. It runs through the advertising, misrepresentation, unauthorized-practice-of-law, fair-housing and consumer-protection authorities that already applied to you. The guide maps each zone to the rule it actually touches.
Green
AI drafts, you verify, you own the output.
- First-draft listing copy, then verify every fact
- Summarizing documents for your own understanding
- Market research, with sources checked
- Drafting tone for an email or text, reviewed before send
- Content ideation and transaction organization
Yellow
Mandatory human review. You remain accountable.
- Anything client-facing
- CMA narrative and pricing rationale: AI cannot set price
- Listing claims about square footage, features, condition
- Translated client communications, reviewed by a fluent human
- Anything containing a number, a date, or a deadline
- AI images and virtual staging
Red
High liability. I do not let AI do these.
- Interpreting contract terms for a client
- Drafting or modifying contract language
- Unverified listing claims
- Fair-housing-sensitive language, steering, demographic targeting
- Disclosure decisions
- Tax, legal, or financial advice to clients
- Auto-sending AI output to a client unreviewed
- Feeding client personal information into public AI tools
Get the full guide
The full version names the rule behind every Yellow and Red item, includes the citation matrix, and covers two claims circulating right now that are not supported by any rule I could find.
Read this before anything else
I am not a lawyer. I am a licensed Texas real estate agent. This guide is general education about rules I have to follow in my own practice. It is not legal advice, it does not create any professional relationship between us, and it is not a substitute for your broker, your attorney, or TREC.
Jurisdiction: Texas. Every citation is Texas law, a Texas administrative rule, federal fair housing law, or the NAR Code of Ethics. Other states differ, sometimes significantly. This is not multi-state guidance.
Where this and your broker disagree, follow your broker. Your sponsoring broker sets your policy. Ask them for their AI policy in writing and use it. This map is what I worked out for my own practice while waiting for clearer rules.
Current as of September 5, 2026: AI and real estate rules are evolving; verify with your broker and TREC.
Khai Tran, TREC #646179. Brokered by eXp Realty, LLC | TREC License #603392.