What do I need to use Rent Increase Response?

The increase; The market read; The tenant's record; The alternatives, honestly.

Is Rent Increase Response free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Rent Increase Response

Q: How do I know the Rent Increase Response output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Validity runs first, as flagged categories, and an invalid increase reroutes the whole response; The ledger prices both the tenant's move AND the landlord's turnover; The counter contains a trade, not just a smaller number; The timeline keeps the moving option alive through the negotiation.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-10-06⚖️ rules checked 2026-07-18Not yet expert-reviewed · review it 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-renters

Respond to a rent increase strategically — check its validity first, price your alternatives honestly, then negotiate with the leverage tenants forget they have (turnover costs the landlord more than a compromise). Use when asked my rent is going up what can I do, negotiate my rent increase, is this increase even legal, or should I stay or move. Produces the validity checklist, the stay-vs-move math, the negotiation letter with its trade menu, and the decision timeline against the notice period.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft ⬇ Add to Claude (works in Duet) 📱 Use as an app View SKILL.md ↗ What changed

🗣 Say this to your agent

“My rent is going up what can I do.”“Negotiate my rent increase.”“Is this increase even legal?”“Should I stay?”

What to give it

▸The increase — current rent, proposed rent, effective date, how and when notice arrived, lease status (mid-term, renewal, month-to-month — mid-term increases are usually invalid on fixed leases; flag it)

▸The market read — comparable listings in the building/area if known (the negotiation's ammunition; the skill structures the comp list to gather)

▸The tenant's record — tenure, payment history, condition of the unit; the letter monetizes reliability

▸The alternatives, honestly — willingness to actually move, and the constraints (school zones, commute, the fifth-floor piano); a bluff the tenant can't back has negative value

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Validity runs first, as flagged categories, and an invalid increase reroutes the whole response

✓The ledger prices both the tenant's move AND the landlord's turnover

✓The counter contains a trade, not just a smaller number

✓The timeline keeps the moving option alive through the negotiation

✓The bluff check happened — nothing in the letter threatens what the tenant won't do

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not negotiate an invalid increase — note the defect politely and let process reset the table

Do not counter with hardship alone — sympathy is not a rate; records, comps, and trades are

Do not threaten to move while unwilling to — landlords price bluffs quickly and permanently

Do not assert caps or notice periods as numbers — categories with verify-locally flags

Do not let the effective date arrive mid-negotiation — the timeline exists because leverage has an expiry

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y -p pm-claude-skills pm-claude-skills-mcp

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