ASCII CHART (LeaseWatch marketing page)
Asking rent (1-bed, "Downtown")

  2800 |                        *  *
  2600 |                   *  *       *
  2400 |              *
  2200 |         *
  2000 |    *
  1800 | *
       +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
         Q3  Q1  Q3  Q1  Q3  Q1  Q3  Q1
         21  22  22  23  23  24  24  25

TRAP: the x-axis is not uniform. Q4 2021 through Q2 2023 are omitted.
Plotting these labels as equally spaced categorical ticks fabricates
slope. Protocol §4.3 (Non-Uniform Temporal Axis) scores this as a hard
penalty unless the agent reconstructs a datetime axis with visible gaps.
