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AskRentAI MCP

Read-only Rent Manager intelligence for AI clients - plain-English portfolio questions answered from live data, with no write path back to the property management system. AskRentAI is a hosted MCP server built on Rent Manager, the platform used across a large share of US rental housing, covering apartments, single-family, commercial, self-storage and mobile home / RV communities. Operators ask "which properties are below budget on NOI this quarter" and get the answer from the API at the moment they ask - no exports, no stale spreadsheets, no sync to configure.

Server type: Remote (Streamable HTTP)
Auth: OAuth
Endpoint: https://api.askrentai.com/mcp
Pricing: $10 per user per month, 7-day free trial (no credit card)
Category: Real Estate & Property Management
Built by: Brian Menold (github.com/brianmenold/askrentai-mcp)

Why This Matters for Operators

Rent Manager ships a capable web API, but using it means knowing which endpoint holds the data, how the tables relate, how to authenticate and how to page results. Most property operators don't have a developer to spare for a reporting question, so API access sits switched on and unused while everyone goes back to exporting reports by hand.

AskRentAI closes that gap: the AI calls the API for you, at the moment you ask. The read-only architecture is the safety point, not a limitation - the server cannot post a charge, edit a lease or change a tenant record, so pointing a read-only Rent Manager API user at it gives a blast radius of zero.

Tools & Capabilities

The listing does not publish a fixed tool list (the live tool set is served from the endpoint), but the documented coverage spans the operator's core surfaces:

Area What you can ask
NOI & financials Which properties are below budget on NOI this quarter?
Delinquency Who's more than 30 days delinquent, and how much in total?
Leases Which leases expire in the next 90 days, and what are those units paying?
Work orders How long are work orders staying open, by property?
Vendor spend How much did I spend with each vendor last year, and did anyone's pricing jump?
Reporting Run a year-over-year P&L and tell me which expense lines moved

Coverage also includes vacancy and occupancy trends, prospects and lead sources, utility and water reconciliation, trial balance and stored documents.

Installation

claude mcp add askrentai --transport http https://api.askrentai.com/mcp

Setup takes about ten minutes: connect through OAuth, point the server at your Rent Manager data, and start asking. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and any MCP-compatible client. Vendor walkthroughs for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and VS Code are published on the listing.

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "askrentai": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.askrentai.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

OAuth sign-in on first connect. The vendor recommends a read-only Rent Manager API user so the server can never write back to your portfolio.

Business Relevance

  • Property managers get portfolio health answers without pulling and stitching reports
  • Asset managers and owners can check NOI variance, delinquency aging and lease expiry risk across all properties in one session
  • Maintenance leads track open work-order age by property to find the slow sites
  • Controllers pull trial-balance and vendor-spend answers with the source numbers attached

Integration with CorpusIQ

AskRentAI covers the property layer that CorpusIQ's 40+ connectors reach from the business side. A composed workflow can hold QuickBooks books, Stripe revenue and GA4 web traffic in CorpusIQ while AskRentAI answers the portfolio questions - delinquency aging, lease-expiry exposure, NOI variance - in the same agent session, so a single report can reconcile portfolio performance against the general ledger without exporting anything.

Limitations

  • Rent Manager only - no Buildium, AppFolio or Yardi coverage
  • Read-only by design: no charges, lease edits or tenant-record changes
  • Brand new (Aug 2026 listing), no track record yet; single-vendor hosted service
  • $10 per user per month after the 7-day trial
  • Tool list is served live from the endpoint, not documented statically

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