# MoCo Housing License Check

> MoCo Housing License Check is a paid API for AI agents from x402-mcp.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Checks whether a Montgomery County, Maryland residential rental property is licensed and has open housing code violations by querying a street address.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-mcp.onrender.com/us/moco/property-check
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/moco-housing-license-check-4497d733
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9Ek_qUIz0K5E2-H14UzJ0

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability moco-housing-license-check-4497d733
```

Example prompt: Can you check whether the rental at 123 Elm Street in Rockville is licensed in Montgomery County and if there are any open housing code violations on it?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically need rental licensing and code violation data for a property in Montgomery County, Maryland (MoCo). It covers the entire county — not just one city — making it ideal for tenant screening, landlord compliance checks, and real estate due diligence in MoCo. For other jurisdictions use the corresponding city/county-specific endpoints (e.g. NYC HPD, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Orlando, San Francisco, New Orleans, Gainesville).

## Known failure modes

- Address not found in Montgomery County records — returns empty or no-match result
- Address outside Montgomery County jurisdiction — endpoint does not cover other Maryland counties
- Malformed or ambiguous address string — may return no results or incorrect property
- Upstream Montgomery County open data API unavailable — may return error or timeout
- Property exists but has no rental license record — returns unlicensed status

## How this service works

Is this property licensed in Montgomery County MD? Property due diligence agent for MoCo housing compliance open data — rental license status/type/units plus active housing code violations. GET ?address= → JSON. Tenant screening, landlord diligence (county-wide, not one city).

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the property's rental license status (active/inactive/unlicensed), license type, number of licensed units, and any open housing code enforcement cases pulled live from Montgomery County open data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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