# RentalAnalytics rent tools Muse connector

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## RentalAnalytics rent tools

Look up HUD rent data and run rental property financial calculators for cap rate, cash flow, and lease renewal.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/rentalanalytics-rent-tools
- Category: Finance & Bills
- Developer: RentalAnalytics (https://rentalanalytics.com)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 95ms, checked 2026-10-29T11:16:01Z
- Endpoint: https://rentalanalytics.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-10-29T07:41:22Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.rentalanalytics/rent-tools) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=com.rentalanalytics%2Frent-tools

Read-only access to HUD Fair Market Rent data and rental property analysis tools. Calculate cap rates, cash flow, DSCR, amortization, and compare short-term vs long-term rental strategies. Includes lease renewal guidance and operating expense benchmarks for rental properties.

Example request: "Calculate the cap rate and cash-on-cash return for a rental property I'm considering buying in Austin."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use RentalAnalytics rent tools to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://rentalanalytics.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- 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 rent stored in the site's Section 8 extract, not a market-rent estimate. If the ZIP is absent, or the extract has more than one town rent, t
- 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 area is in hud-50th-sample.json, then aged with the BLS CPI Shelter rate in the script and a property-type multiplier. FMR stays the labeled 40
- calculate_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. Unknown ZIPs use the file's Tier 2 band, which is what the page does. Cash-on-cash, when financed, uses the page's 3% closing estimate. Bands ar
- calculate_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 the cash-on-cash line are the page's 3% estimate. Taxes and insurance are annual; maintenance is monthly.
- calculate_dscr: DSCR calculator. NOI is rent times 12 times (1 minus vacancy) minus taxes, insurance, HOA, and other annual costs. Debt service is the fully amortizing payment times 12. DSCR is NOI divided by debt service. Max loan is the principal whose payment equals NOI divided by the target 
- calculate_amortization: Fully amortizing mortgage schedule from the amortization calculator. Interest is rounded to the cent each month. Pass include_schedule true to get every row. Otherwise the tool returns the payment, payoff date, total interest, and total paid.
- 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 you omit it, the ACS B25031 cell for that ZIP and bedroom when the sample has one, otherwise the HUD FMR for bedrooms 0 through 4. If neither
- advise_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 65% of the gap when under market, blend 50% when over market. Turnover cost is the page's illustrative 1 to 2 months of current rent, not a me
- lookup_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 those pages compute. YoY, vacancy, and cap rate on each row are the file's labeled estimates. The 12-month illustration multiplies the stored 2-
- calculate_opex: Operating-expense lines as a percent of effective gross income, compared with the illustrative national bands in opex-benchmarks.json. Those bands are labeled illustrative in the file. They are not a metro measurement.
- lookup_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 stored hundredths, which uses the site's half-up formula. A county that is not in the file returns an error.
- lookup_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 returns an error.
- calculate_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)) / value). It does not look up a price.
- 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 is not computed. This is a planning illustration, not a filed return and not tax advice.
- illustrate_cost_segregation: Year-1 cost segregation worksheet. Land percent and cost-segregation percent are required because the form has no default for them. Bonus percent comes from tax-params.json when you pass acquired_date and placed_year. Otherwise it uses the form field's stored default. Estimates f
- lookup_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 says so. Estimates for planning; not legal advice.

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 112ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (rentalanalytics.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (16 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 4641 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)