Rent Smart, lie dumb

We’ve written about Rent Smart Chicago several times – calling attention to its owner’s criminal record and its claim to be “Chicago’s largest and most professional apartment and home rental broker.”

I focused on the company again after seeing a Craigslist ad from one of its agents saying Rent Smart is “desperately” in need of landlord listings because “at the moment inventory is low.” The ad claims that the company has over 200 agents. Rent Smart’s Web site says it has over 150 agents. Apparently fewer than 75 of those agents have names and are willing to be listed on the firm’s online roster.

The company is apparently also desperately in need of sale listings – so desperately that it’s including expired listings (immediately above) and listings it doesn’t have with wildly out-of-date prices (top image) as its own. TIP: Any time you see a listing without an address on a broker site, be wary.

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