Information architecture

Top-level navigation

• Home. /
• About. /about
• Tools. /tools/
• Tax literacy. /tax/
• Markets. /markets/
• Section 8 rents: /section8/
• Voucher premium: /section8/voucher-premium/
• Dashboard. /dashboard/ (leftover snapshot, noindex)
• Resource center. /blog/
• AI Agents. /ai-agents/
• MCP API. /mcp/
• Muse connector. /muse/
• Cap Rate table. /games/cap-rate

Tools (12 pages)

Listed here (12):

• Rent Estimator. HUD-anchored rent by ZIP, bedrooms, property type.
• Cap Rate Calculator. NOI, cap rate, metro benchmark, cash-on-cash.
• Cash Flow Analyzer. itemized P&L, break-even occupancy, printable report.
• Rent Growth Tracker. estimated YoY for 15 covered metros vs. sample median.
• Vacancy Panel. 15-metro vacancy vs. sample median (URL kept as vacancy-heatmap).
• Lease Renewal Advisor. hold / raise modestly / reposition from HUD-anchored rent.
• Operating Expense Benchmark. user ratios vs. an illustrative national mid-band.
• Landlord Market Summary. one-page compose from published JSON files only.
• DSCR Calculator: NOI, annual debt service, DSCR, and the max loan at a target you set.
• Amortization Calculator: payment schedule, payoff date, total interest, extra principal, and CSV.
• STR vs Long-term Rent: nightly rate and occupancy you enter, beside HUD or ACS rent for the ZIP.
• 1031 Exchange Calculator: boot, deferred gain, the replacement value test, and the 45-day and 180-day timeline.

Tax literacy (educational, client-side)

Not tax prep, not e-file, not a 1031 qualified intermediary. Worksheets run in the browser from user-typed numbers and do not require a live HUD fetch.

• Tax hub. three-layer IA: market context, cash flow, tax education.
• Rental-net estimator. Schedule E-style categories, not a replica form.
• Vacancy & expense sensitivity. educational table, not a forecast.
• Residential depreciation helper. 27.5-year mid-month illustration.
• 1031 & capital-gains checklist. not Form 8824.
• Cost segregation and bonus depreciation
• Sale, refinance, or hold
• Material participation hours

Games

• Cap Rate. five-hand underwriting table. Buy HUD FMR, vacancy, OpEx, and market cap, then bid closest to true value without going over. Challenge links use ?t= seed.

Section 8 voucher premium

• Counties ranked by Section 8 voucher premium. State and county pages compare the FY2026 2-bedroom Fair Market Rent with ACS median gross rent.

Metro dashboards (100)

The 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas by Census Bureau population on July 1, 2025. Each page is /markets/<slug> and uses HUD FY2026 Fair Market Rent, ACS 2024 5-year rent, value, and income, and the Census Building Permits Survey.

Rates

• Gross rent yield by state. County ranks from ACS median rent and median home value.
• Rent-to-income by state and county. ACS median rent over renter median income, with HUD FY2026 income limits.
• Rent and income limits by ZIP code. Census ZCTA land-area match to a county.

Buyer's shortlist

• Best rent estimate tools in 2026. Ranked on price, data source, geography, free limits, and API.

Resource center (5 starter articles)

• How to estimate rent the right way
• Cap rate vs. cash-on-cash explained
• Reading HUD Fair Market Rents
• Break-even occupancy explained
• Q4 2024 rental market update (historical)

MCP tools

• How to connect
• POST /mcp. Streamable HTTP. Read-only calculators and HUD lookup.

AI agents & machine-readable files

RentalAnalytics is built so an AI agent or MCP client can consume it directly. Playbooks pair prompt templates with copyable API/MCP calls; the machine-readable files let an agent discover tools without reading the HTML.

• AI Agent Playbooks. 5 ready-to-run prompts + copyable calls.
• MCP tools. Streamable HTTP at /mcp, same calculators and HUD files as the site.
• Muse connector. copy-paste custom-connector prompt for Meta Muse (OpenAPI + docs; no token on free tier).
• openapi.json. OpenAPI 3.1 description of all 7 tools.
• llms.txt. concise site + API summary for language models.
• .well-known/ai-plugin.json. plugin manifest.
• .well-known/agents.json. agent capabilities descriptor.
• .well-known/agent.json. lightweight agent card pointing at OpenAPI.

Legal & trust

• About
• Contact
• Methodology
• Data Sources
• Privacy
• Terms

Datasets exposed at /assets/data/

• hud-fmr-sample.json
• markets.json
• metros.json
• voucher-premium.json
• acs-b25031-counties.json
• cap-rate-benchmarks.json
• regulations.json
• opex-benchmarks.json. illustrative national mid-band, labeled in _meta
• rates.json: Freddie Mac PMMS 30-year fixed average via FRED MORTGAGE30US

Crawler-facing

• robots.txt
• sitemap.xml
• openapi.json
• llms.txt