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Maggots begin to swarm Roosevelt Collection
After long experience, I've formed very strong opinions about apartment rental services, and often find myself shortening the phrase "apartment rental [...]
A rental service agent trashes his former rental service
Live Here Chicago is a rental service that's on our our do-not-call list and our list of the top 10 Craigslist apartment ad spammers.
We've al [...]
Does Vesta Preferred prefer self-help on Yelp?
Yesterday's post about Vesta Preferred's misleading advice to renters elicited some anonymous testimonials for Greg Pekarsky, one of the firm's pr [...]
Chicago rental services closing offices, rebranding, testing new business models
As Chicago's rental market strengthens and vacancies decrease, a number of landlords have been cutting back on their use of apartment rental servi [...]
Locator bedbugs still lying about Roosevelt Collection shops
Back in August of 2009 we reported that apartment locator bedbugs (we used to call them maggots) were beginning to swarm the Roosevelt Collection [...]
Apartment rental bedbugs infest Glenview
Some of you may be familiar wth my long-standing practice of referring to apartment rental services as maggots.
I’ve decided that reference is unfa [...]
Yo's list – a guide to renting Loop / New East Side apartments and condos
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for Loop / New East Side apartments, most of them featuring the eleven (that’s all there are) rental high-rise [...]
Yo's list – A guide to renting Streeterville apartments and condos
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for Streeterville apartments, most of them featuring the eleven (that's all there are) rental high-rises in th [...]
Chicago Multiple Listing Service suffers maggot infestation
First I hear of bedbugs shuttering a Hollister store in SoHo, and then I find maggots in the Chicago Multiple Listing Service. Not a pleasant evening' [...]
Maggot-mashing 101: A guide to renting in the South Loop
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for South Loop apartments, most of them touting the fewer than a dozen major apartment complexes in the South [...]
Yo's year: Roosevelt Collection revisited
December's a month meant for retrospectives and year-end lists, so over these final three weeks of 2009, I'll dig back through our archives to see w [...]
Is there a need for Homescout Realty?
In a comment on an earlier YoChicago post Michael Krasman, one of the founders of Homescout Realty (I don't link to apartment rental services) posed t [...]
Don't call this number: 773-273-7079
If you search 773-273-7079 in the apartments section on Craigslist you'll find 1,000 ads for apartments for rent. If you Google the number you'll find [...]
Voices of change: five residents say Bucktown and Wicker Park are growing but still eclectic
The dark-haired, dark-eyed woman in the white dress twirls her wrists and snaps her castanets, her skirt swiveling with the movement of her hips, he [...]
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