Shortlist apartments to rent in a sheet
Listings that meet your rules, with the full monthly cost, the commute and the red flags for each.
- You start it: When you start it
What it does
The task
Search sites for apartments to rent in area with these rules: rules. Read at most 40 listings that were posted in the last 14 days. For each listing that fits, find the rent, the deposit, the fees, the size, the date it is free and the transit time to commute to on Google Maps. Mark red flags, such as a request to pay before a viewing or a rent far below similar apartments. Put the shortlist in a new Google Sheet named Apartments, the best fit first. Do not contact landlords or agents.
- It works in Zillow, any website, Google Maps and Google Sheets, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
- It runs once, when you start it.
What you give it
| Blank | What to give | Example |
|---|---|---|
| sites | Rental sites to search | zillow.com, apartments.com |
| area | Neighborhoods or a town | Jamaica Plain, Boston |
| rules | Bedrooms, the highest rent and the must-haves | 2 bedrooms, under $3,200, laundry in the unit, cats allowed |
| commute to | Where you travel to most days | Longwood Medical Area |
What you get back
An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.
Sheet Apartments: 9 of 40 listings fit your rules
| Address | Rent | Fees | Size | Free from | Transit | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alder Row, unit 2 | $3,050 | none | 980 sq ft | 1 Dec | 18 min | none |
| Pond View Ave, unit 3R | $2,900 | $250 application fee | 860 sq ft | 15 Nov | 24 min | none |
| Harlow St, unit 1 | $2,450 | none | 1,050 sq ft | now | 21 min | asks for a deposit by wire before a viewing |
6 more rows in the sheet
Skipped: 31 listings with no laundry, no cats or a rent over $3,200
Run it in Cuiar
- 01
Open it
Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.
- 02
Fill in 4 blanks
Type sites, area, rules and commute to. Tab moves to the next blank.
- 03
Run it
Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.
From the terminal
cuiar exec "Search zillow.com, apartments.com for apartments to rent in Jamaica Plain, Boston with these rules: 2 bedrooms, under \$3,200, laundry in the unit, cats allowed. Read at most 40 listings that were posted in the last 14 days. For each listing that fits, find the rent, the deposit, the fees, the size, the date it is free and the transit time to Longwood Medical Area on Google Maps. Mark red flags, such as a request to pay before a viewing or a rent far below similar apartments. Put the shortlist in a new Google Sheet named Apartments, the best fit first. Do not contact landlords or agents."Run it from your AI agent
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.
1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp2. Ask your agent
Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Shortlist apartments to rent in a sheet" template with sites = zillow.com, apartments.com; area = Jamaica Plain, Boston; rules = 2 bedrooms, under $3,200, laundry in the unit, cats allowed; commute to = Longwood Medical Area.Setup for other agents: AI agents.
The tool call
{
"name": "run_task",
"arguments": {
"task": "Search zillow.com, apartments.com for apartments to rent in Jamaica Plain, Boston with these rules: 2 bedrooms, under $3,200, laundry in the unit, cats allowed. Read at most 40 listings that were posted in the last 14 days. For each listing that fits, find the rent, the deposit, the fees, the size, the date it is free and the transit time to Longwood Medical Area on Google Maps. Mark red flags, such as a request to pay before a viewing or a rent far below similar apartments. Put the shortlist in a new Google Sheet named Apartments, the best fit first. Do not contact landlords or agents."
}
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