AI Helps Renters Find Their Next Apartment

Generative AI tools are becoming increasingly popular as more people use them to write emails, summarize documents, and recreate pictures of pets. And, like Kim, renters are also using AI chatbots to find apartments, writes Michaelle Bond of the Philadelphia Inquirer. How are these tools changing renting, and how can renters use them to their advantage.

This month, [JoAnne Kim and her husband] moved into Montgomery Plaza near Suburban Square. 

ChatGPT “helped me become a better apartment hunter, because I was able to use all the data to help me make a decision,” said Kim, a 64-year-old career mentor for university students. 

Jack Olmanson, 27, doesn’t regularly use generative AI tools. But this year, when he and his girlfriend needed to move from Washington, D.C., to the Philadelphia area for her work in the equestrian industry, he turned to Anthropic’s Claude for help. 

Olmanson and his girlfriend are originally from Minnesota and didn’t know the Philadelphia area, so they asked Claude to compare suburban towns here to those they knew in the Minneapolis area. They also asked it to make a map of locations with reasonable commute times. 

They moved into an Ardmore apartment building managed by Harrison Richards in May. 

Michaelle Bond goes into more detail in this article from the Philadelphia Inquirer.