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Read-only HUD rent lookup and the site's existing rental calculators.
Remote server: your requests and data go to rentalanalytics.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http rentalanalytics-rent-tools https://rentalanalytics.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
lookup_hud_rent — Published FY2027 HUD Fair Market Rent or Small Area FMR for a ZIP and bedroom count (studio through 4). This is the 40th-percentile voucher estimate_rent — The rent estimator on /tools/rent-estimator. Hero is the HUD FY2027 50th-percentile area rent scaled onto the ZIP FMR or SAFMR when that arecalculate_cap_rate — Cap rate calculator: NOI divided by purchase price, compared with the band stored in cap-rate-benchmarks.json for the ZIP's metro tier. Unkncalculate_cash_flow — Cash flow analyzer. Itemized P&L, cap rate, gross yield, cash-on-cash, and break-even occupancy from the inputs you pass. Closing costs in tcalculate_dscr — DSCR calculator. NOI is rent times 12 times (1 minus vacancy) minus taxes, insurance, HOA, and other annual costs. Debt service is the fullycalculate_amortization — Fully amortizing mortgage schedule from the amortization calculator. Interest is rounded to the cent each month. Pass include_schedule true compare_str_ltr — STR vs long-term comparison. Short-term revenue is nightly rate times occupied nights. Long-term rent is the monthly rent you pass, or, if yadvise_lease_renewal — Lease renewal advisor. Market rent is estimate_rent for the ZIP. The recommended rent follows the page's gap bands: hold inside 5%, blend 65lookup_covered_market — City rows stored in markets.json (the 15-city sample behind the rent-growth tracker and vacancy panel), plus the sample median and mean thoscalculate_opex — Operating-expense lines as a percent of effective gross income, compared with the illustrative national bands in opex-benchmarks.json. Thoselookup_rent_to_income — Census median rent, renter income, and HUD income limits stored for a state or county in rent-to-income.json. The ratio is the file's storedlookup_gross_yield — Gross rent yield stored for a state or county in gross-yield.json. The yield is the file's stored figure. A county that is not in the file rcalculate_gross_yield — Gross yield for a monthly rent and value you pass, using the site's half-up hundredths formula: floor((rent * 12 * 10000 + floor(value / 2))illustrate_1031_exchange — Partial Form 8824 illustration from the 1031 calculator (lines 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, and 24 when line 23 equals line 20). Line 21 recapture isillustrate_cost_segregation — Year-1 cost segregation worksheet. Land percent and cost-segregation percent are required because the form has no default for them. Bonus pelookup_city_rules — Plain-English landlord-tenant digest stored in regulations.json for the cities that file covers. If the city is not in the file, the tool saNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.