Moving somewhere new?
Know it before you go.
The honest way to research a city before moving — even one you have never visited. Type a state, a city, a ZIP, or an exact address, whatever you know so far, and get what it costs, what the weather is really like, what it's exposed to, and what rent should be. Every figure named, sourced and dated.
You'll get a weighted range, a confidence read, and every comp behind it — free, no account.
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Where are you in the move?
A relocation is not one decision, it's three — and most people arrive here somewhere in the middle. Start wherever you actually are; each step below is a real tool, not a brochure.
“Somewhere cheaper. Somewhere warmer. That's all I know.”
Start from what you need rather than a place name. Say what has to be true and it narrows all 3,143 US counties to the ones that actually meet it.
- Filter on cost, climate, density, hazard exposure and jobs
- Published measurements only — it filters, it never ranks
“I've got three places in mind and I can't decide.”
Keep a shortlist as you go and put the places side by side — including the one you live in now, because a move is always there versus here.
- The same facts for every place, in your order — no winner is highlighted
- No account needed; a missing figure shows as “no data”, never as a blank
“I'm looking at an actual address.”
Down to a listing? Get the free rent estimate for it, then the full guide to what living at that address is like — costs, climate, hazards, broadband, commute.
- Free: rent estimate with every comparable behind it
- $15: the full Neighborhood Guide, ~20 area cards, each sourced
Tell it what's true for you. Get the shortlist.
Pick the statements that fit and it narrows all 3,143 US counties to the ones that actually meet them — a filter over published measurements, never a ranking and never a score.
It filters; it never ranks. Every statement above is an objective published measurement with a named agency, and the screener refuses crime, safety, school-grade and demographic filters outright — so nothing it returns is a recommendation about who lives anywhere. Or open the screener and set your own thresholds →
How to research a city before moving.
These are the questions to ask before moving to a new area — and the agency that answers each one. All of it is public, all of it is free to look up, and all of it is already wired into the reports here. You are welcome to go check any of it yourself.
Can I actually afford to live there?
Median rent, median home value and median household income for the ZIP and the county around it — so you can see whether a low rent comes with a low wage.
What will day-to-day life cost?
How far a dollar goes in that metro against the national average, plus what households there actually pay for electricity and gas.
What's the weather really like?
Thirty-year normals from the nearest station: the average January low, the average July high, and how much rain and snow actually falls. Not this week's forecast — the pattern.
Will it flood, burn, or shake?
Federal disaster declarations and when the last one was, wildfire risk to homes, flood zone, and seismic history — the adverse facts, printed whether or not they flatter the address.
Will I be able to insure it?
What homeowners there pay, and how often insurers decline to renew — increasingly the number that decides whether a place is livable, and one almost nobody shows you.
Is there work, and is the place growing?
The local unemployment rate, how many people moved in versus out last year, and how much new housing is being permitted — three ways of asking whether a town is on the way up.
Can I even get internet there?
Which providers report service at that address and at what speeds — worth checking before you sign anything if you work from home.
How would I get around?
Distance to the nearest transit, major roads and airports, and how long people in that county actually commute.
Which school district would I be in?
The district the address falls in, its schools and their enrolment — the factual record only. We publish no school rating and no comparison between districts, deliberately.
What's the tax and utility picture?
Property-tax burden for the county, state income-tax treatment, and typical energy bills — the recurring costs that a listing price never mentions.
Is the air and water OK?
Monitored air quality, permitted industrial sites and cleanup sites near the address — published, mapped, and rarely mentioned by anyone trying to sell you a house.
And what should the rent be?
A weighted estimate from real nearby listings, with every comparable shown — so you can tell whether the place you found is priced fairly before you offer.
Notice what isn't on this list: whether a place is “nice”, how safe it is, or how its schools rank. Those are judgements about the people who live somewhere, not facts about a place — so we don't publish them, and we'll show you why ↓
See it before you buy it.
Relocating for a job, a school, or a fresh start? Point it at the place you chose and get objective facts with named government sources — never a neighborhood “score”, and never a steer toward one area over another.
Area cards for the address you chose — each figure with the agency that supplies it and the year it is from. Objective facts, never a neighborhood score.
See the Neighborhood Guide — $15 →What's actually in it
- ZIP + county rent, home-value & income medians (US Census ACS)
- “What's happening here”: recent disaster declarations, unemployment, building permits & net migration — each dated (FEMA, BLS, US Census, IRS), with official link-outs
- ~20 stackable area cards: cost of living, property tax, energy, climate, schools context, parks & trails, farmers markets, libraries, amenities, transit & dining
- Objective facts with named sources — never a neighborhood 'score', never a steer
Get the guide — $15 → Or check an address free
Want to read a real one end to end first? Open a full sample report → · Why we can publish what listing sites removed →
You can name every source.
Licensed market listings and public records, plus federal government data. Not "proprietary analytics" — a list you can read, check, and cite back to us.
Government data (HUD, U.S. Census Bureau, BLS, BEA, Treasury, IRS, FEMA, NOAA, USGS, EPA, USDA, USFWS, DOE, EIA, NASA, USACE, NPS, DOT, FAA, FCC, FHFA, FBI, and other U.S. federal agencies) is used under the public-domain status of U.S. Government works; these agencies do not endorse RentariIQ. Provider names and logos are trademarks of their respective owners. All data sources & attribution →
Once you have an address, everything else.
The Neighborhood Guide is the one most movers want, but it is one of many. Rent and comps, value and sale history, taxes, hazards, schools context — pick a family and read what each report actually answers. Every one is built the same honest way.
The defensible rent — with every comparable behind the number.
Underwrite the deal: cash flow, DSCR, max offer, BRRRR, refi.
What it's worth today — and what you'd net when you sell.
Renew, re-list, or reprice — with the break-even math shown.
The over-assessment case, documented and ready to appeal.
HUD FMR, AMI limits, and what the local market can pay.
Flood, wildfire, quake, and the disaster history on record.
Migration, jobs, new supply, and where rents are heading.
Schools, crime, walkability — the area, in objective facts.
The full picture on an address, from $15.
The Relocation / Neighborhood Guide is $15 — cost of living, climate outlook, schools context, commute, broadband, hazards and more, each with its source and vintage. Single-topic reports are $4 each, and the rent estimate is always free.
Relocation / Neighborhood Guide
Everything the free estimate gives you, plus what living at that address actually costs and what is around it — assembled into one document you can keep, share, or hand to whoever is asking.
- The sheet shown above, built for the address you pick
- Around twenty area cards, each naming its agency and its vintage
- Yours to keep, share, or hand over — no subscription
Or just one number no subscription, credits never expire
Pay As You Go
- Full comp analysis + weighted range
- White-label PDF report
- AI plain-English narrative
5-Report Credit Pack
- 5 fungible report credits — $3.40 each vs $4 pay-as-you-go
- Credits never expire
- Works on any standard report — one credit each
- Premium reports are sold separately
12-Report Credit Pack
- 12 fungible report credits — $3.00 each vs $4 pay-as-you-go
- Credits never expire
- Works on any standard report — one credit each
- Premium reports are sold separately
For scale: the nearest neighborhood-analytics product lists reports at $30 each and subscriptions from $112.50/mo. neighborhoodscout.com · read 2 Aug 2026
A grade you can't check is not an answer.
Most of this category ships one of two things: a score out of 100, or a confident number with nothing behind it. Here is the same question asked of all three.
| Ask it | A neighborhood score | A general AI chatbot | RentariIQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which inputs produced this? | ✕ Proprietary and undisclosed | ✕ Often cites sources it never read | ✓ Every figure names its source and its vintage |
| Can the people it describes challenge it? | ✕ A grade has nothing to dispute | ✕ Regenerates a different answer | ✓ Objective counts you can look up yourself |
| What happens when there's no data? | ✕ Still returns a score | ✕ Invents a plausible figure | ✓ Says “no estimate for this address” |
| Is it still true next month? | ✕ Recomputed silently | ✕ Not reproducible at all | ✓ An immutable snapshot, stamped as-of |
| Does it rank places against each other? | ✕ That is the product | ✕ Cheerfully, if asked | ✓ Never — facts about the place you chose |
Column two describes the scored-neighborhood product category — for example a 0–100 “livability score” used to rank cities. areavibes.com · read 2 Aug 2026
From an address to an answer, in minutes.
Type an address, your analyst reads the sources, and you get a sourced report you can open, share, or defend.
Enter an address
We pull rental comps, market trends, and public data.
AI analyzes the data
The engine weighs comps, then writes the analysis.
Get your report
A defensible, source-labeled report — in minutes.
Every number wears its receipt.
Open any report and each figure carries the source it came from, the sample it's built on, and the date it was true. Including the awkward ones.
A sample of what's inside — open a real report →
A provenance ledger, not a vibe
Every input records which source it came from — and when two sources disagree, the report says so instead of quietly picking one.
Snapshotted & dated
Each report is an immutable snapshot stamped “as-of” the day it ran, so a number you defended last month still reads the same today.
Confidence you can read
A gauge built from comp count, recency, and spread — so an all-AI estimate can never dress itself up as high-confidence. Or, honestly: “no data for this address.”
Market rentals
Nearby for-rent listings with real addresses, weighted by distance, recency, and similarity — never averaged blindly.
County & valuation data
Assessments, sales history, valuation models, and HUD fair-market rents from licensed and government sources.
Your own leases
Executed leases from your portfolio strengthen your estimates — and never leave your account or price anyone else's units.
AI, only where it says so
In thin markets AI can supply market references — always marked “AI-estimated” in the comp table, never passed off as a listing.
An adverse number you can defend beats a grade you can't.
Listing sites are paid by agents and listings, so a number that talks a buyer out of a deal costs them money. That is not a suspicion — it is a public record.
We take no commission and sell no listings. You’re the customer, so the flood history, the hazard exposure, the insurance picture, the tax burden and the climate outlook all go in the report — sourced and dated, whether or not they make the address look good.
It also decides what we don’t ship. We publish state-level crime counts from the FBI rather than a neighborhood safety grade, because a grade can’t be challenged by the people it describes — which is the same objection that got the scores above pulled. Facts with a named source and a date, never a ranking.
Movers first — but not movers only.
This page is built for someone relocating, because that is the hardest version of the problem. The same sourced engine answers three other questions too.
Landlords & PMs
Set renewals and vacancies with a number you can show the owner — and certify rent-reasonableness in minutes.
Rent reasonableness →Movers & renters
See what rent should cost, what living there really costs, and what the area is really like — before you sign a lease.
The Neighborhood Guide →Homeowners
Know what your home rents for, what it's worth, and whether your assessment is fair — before you act.
Tax-appeal evidence →Investors
Underwrite before you sign: cash flow, DSCR, cap rate, and a risk-adjusted view of the yield.
Cash-flow analysis →Then just talk to it.
Ask anything about the report in plain English. It answers only from that report's data, with citations — and “what-if” questions re-run the real engine, so the number always comes from the math, never the chatbot.
The honest fine print.
Is a RentariIQ report an appraisal?
Where does the data come from?
How is this different from a Zestimate or asking ChatGPT?
Why don't you publish a neighborhood score or a safety grade?
What's actually in the $15 Neighborhood Guide?
How accurate is the rent estimate?
Is it fair-housing and antitrust compliant?
Is white-label branding extra on a seat?
Do I need an account, and what does it cost?
How much rent should I charge for my property?
How do I determine fair market rent for my property?
How many rent comps do I need for an accurate estimate?
How often can I raise the rent, and by how much?
Should I include utilities in the rent?
Is it legal to use software or algorithms to set rent prices?
How accurate are online rent estimates compared to actual rent?
What is Fair Market Rent and the Section 8 payment standard?
Does rent really vary that much between cities and neighborhoods?
Running them regularly a monthly pool, with cheaper overage
Solo
- 10 reports / month included — about $1.90 each vs $4 pay-as-you-go
- $2.00 per additional report
- White-label PDF reports
Pro
- 30 reports / month included — about $1.63 each vs $4 pay-as-you-go
- $1.75 per additional report
- API access
- Priority support
Scale
- 80 reports / month included — about $1.24 each vs $4 pay-as-you-go
- $1.35 per additional report
- Full REST API + bulk CSV import
- Dedicated support
Not moving — you do this for a living?
Everything above is built for one person researching one move. If you price, underwrite or advise on property every week, the same engine has a seat. Your name on the report is free on any plan — including pay-as-you-go — so a seat is purely about volume: each report goes from $4 to $1.75, $1.55, or as little as $1.24, with the bulk and API tools around it. Cancel any time.
For an agent whose lender or brokerage co-sponsors the seat.
15 branded reports / month included · $1.75 each after
For the individual agent who pays for their own seat.
35 branded reports / month included · $1.55 each after
For a loan officer running borrower-facing analysis at volume.
120 branded reports / month included · $1.35 each after
Ask your analyst about any address.
A defensible rent estimate, the value, the taxes, every comparable, and neighborhood context — sourced and dated. Your first estimate is free, no account needed.
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