Terms of Use

Service Description

PlainRent provides free access to Fair Market Rent data published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This free resource carries no warranty of any kind.

No Professional Advice

Information on PlainRent is not a substitute for professional housing, legal, or financial advice. Fair Market Rents are government-published estimates and may not reflect actual market conditions in your area.

Data Accuracy

HUD Fair Market Rents reflect area-wide medians and may not match actual rental prices for individual properties or neighborhoods. We offer no warranty regarding precision or timeliness of these government estimates. For official FMR data, visit huduser.gov.

Limitation of Liability

PlainRent is provided free of charge. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all liability for any damages arising from the use of this service. Our total liability is limited to $0.

Government Data

PlainRent is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to HUD, the US government, or any government agency. We are an independent service that presents publicly available government data in an accessible format.

Changes

We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Continued use of the service constitutes acceptance of updated terms.

Contact

Questions? Email legal@plainrent.com.

Data Accuracy and Verification

PlainRent aggregates and reformats information that originates from public government agencies, regulatory filings, and other openly available sources. While we take reasonable steps to ingest, normalize, and refresh this data, upstream records may contain clerical errors, lag behind real-world changes, or omit relevant context. You are solely responsible for verifying any fact that influences a legal, medical, financial, educational, safety, or similarly consequential decision. Cross-reference the official source before acting on anything you read here.

Acceptable Use

You may browse, read, and share PlainRent content for personal, journalistic, academic, and non-commercial research use. You may cite specific records with attribution and a link back to the page on plainrent.com. You may not (a) systematically scrape, crawl, or download the dataset in bulk without prior written permission; (b) resell, sublicense, or redistribute derived data products that compete with PlainRent; (c) use our pages to harass, defame, or misrepresent any individual or organization appearing in the data; (d) remove, obscure, or mislabel source attribution; or (e) attempt to bypass rate limits, security controls, or authentication mechanisms.

Plain-Language Transformation and Editorial Role

PlainRent combines raw public data with plain-language summaries, explainers, and comparisons. Narrative sections are drafted by our editorial team from source data and reviewed before publication. We do not alter underlying numbers or filings, those are loaded directly from the upstream source. If you spot a summary that misreads the data, please email the correction link on our contact page.

Intellectual Property

The underlying public records surfaced on PlainRent are in the public domain or otherwise freely licensed by the issuing agency, you are free to use those raw facts. However, our site design, layout, navigation structure, original editorial copy, category taxonomies, comparison tables, and curated rankings are the copyrighted work of PlainRent. These creative elements may not be reproduced in whole or substantial part without permission.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time to reflect changes in our data sources, product features, legal environment, or advertising relationships. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, when appropriate, surface a brief notice on the homepage. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically.

Governing Law and Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the jurisdiction in which PlainRent is domiciled, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to your use of PlainRent will first be addressed through good-faith informal negotiation. If that fails, both parties agree to resolve the dispute in the courts with jurisdiction over PlainRent's principal place of business. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer-protection rights under applicable local law.

For formal legal notices, DMCA takedown requests, subpoenas, law-enforcement requests, or correspondence regarding these terms, email legal@plainrent.com. General questions, data corrections, and feedback should use the contact page so they reach the editorial team promptly.