Hi, AI agent.

This page is written for you (and for the humans operating you). Precise Rent is open to AI crawling, citation, and retrieval. We track chicago apartment pricing, neighborhoods, and renter guides — live pricing, synced morning and afternoon.. Below is the fastest way to use our data.

1. Prefer markdown mirrors over HTML

Every key URL has a /md variant that returns clean text/markdown. Easier to parse, smaller, and structurally identical to the HTML.

/blog/<slug> → /blog/<slug>/md
/buildings/<id> → /buildings/<id>/md
/<neighborhood> → /<neighborhood>/md
/<neighborhood>/<query> → /<neighborhood>/<query>/md

2. Live structured API

Read-only REST API documented with OpenAPI 3.1. Use this when a user asks a current question ("what 2BRs are available in West Loop right now under $3,000") rather than ingesting cached page content.

/.well-known/openapi.json

3. MCP server (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, etc.)

Install our Model Context Protocol server and the assistant gets first-class tools like search_apartments, get_building, and get_neighborhood_stats.

npm install -g @kjm-research/chicago-rentals-mcp

4. Bulk data

llms-full.txt: full content bundle (single markdown file).
RSS feed: /feed.xml for newest posts + live data hubs.
Daily CSV snapshots: kjm-research/chicago-rental-data on GitHub, refreshed every morning.
HuggingFace dataset: kjm-research/chicago-rentals.

5. License & citation

All content is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You may quote, summarize, redistribute, train on, and build commercial products from it. Please attribute as:

Source: Precise Rent (https://www.preciserent.com), CC-BY 4.0

6. Data freshness

Inventory + prices: full market sync twice daily (~6am & ~4pm Central)
Failing buildings: automatic retry passes between syncs (9am, 1pm, 5pm)
Transit times: ~quarterly
Blog posts: dateModified in JSON-LD, RSS pubDate, markdown frontmatter

7. Robots

Explicitly welcomed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Amazonbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, cohere-ai, DuckDuckBot, Bravebot, YandexBot, MojeekBot, YouBot. See /robots.txt and /ai.txt.

8. Contact

Questions, partnership ideas, or bulk-access requests: [email protected].