Productivity · News · 🇺🇸 United States · via agentusecases.ai
One week to find an apartment in San Francisco
A new hire used Claude and ChatGPT to list property managers and filter listings by price and area.
- Profession
- Tenant
- Source
- almanacnews.com ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- October 6, 2026
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
Renno Mihalis, 23, had one week to find an apartment after a job offer. Instead of relying on a single portal, he asked the AIs for a list of property management sites and set criteria for price, area and size.
How it went
The AI produced good lists, but sometimes returned listings outside the criteria. He ended up finding a place.
Good to know
Always double-check the filters: the AI got the parameters wrong some of the time.
The prompt
I need to rent in [city] by [date]. List the main property managers and portals in the area and, for each one, how to filter by [price], [neighborhoods] and [size]. Then build a spreadsheet with the listings I paste here, flagging the ones that don't meet the criteria.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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