Tag: Bedbugs
Apartment bedbug spotlight – Downtown Apartment Finders
Every so often we'll spotlight one of the apartment rental "services" – we call them bedbugs – on our apartment finder do-not-call list. Our bedbu [...]
Is Ginger Summers the Chicago Association of Realtors’ poster child?
We've written before about a rental service bedbug by the name of Ginger Summers who litters Craigslist with 1,000s of ads.
A number of those ads a [...]
Does Chicago Apartment Finders post lying reviews?
It's bedbug vs bedbug out there in apartment rental service reviews.
Most of the rental services (bedbugs) limit themselves to back-of-the-hand sl [...]
How many rental service owners have criminal records?
That question occurred to me after coming across two of them within the past week.
I found the first while researching a rental service whose "bedb [...]
Don’t let ’em catch you bringing in the bedbugs
And I'm not talking about apartment finders.
According to Crain's, the condo board at Park Tower, 5415 N Sheridan Rd in Edgewater, is suing a resid [...]
Updating YoChicago’s rental service do-not-call list
As a rough guesstimate, the rental services we call bedbugs are adding more than 10,000 apartment ads a day – many of them bait-and-switch come-on [...]
The Lincoln Park apartments at-a-glance list
We've just published the first draft of our Lincoln Park apartments at-a-glance list.
The list – a work in progress – contains links to over 10 [...]
Every Gold Coast, Near North, River North and Streeterville apartment complex on one map
View Apartments for rent in Chicago's Gold Coast, Near North, River North, Old Town, Streeterville in a larger map
We've had a number of requests t [...]
Who is Chicago’s largest apartment rental service?
At least 3 companies claim the title of Chicago's largest apartment rental service.
According to its Web site, The Apartment People is "Chicago [...]
Slow rentals at Echelon at K Station?
If you're working with a rental service that's touting Echelon at K Station over the alternatives, the reason may be Echelon's latest incentive offer [...]
Yo’s newest apartment Guide – Lake View
Finding an apartment in many Chicago’s neighborhoods is a quick, pleasant walk in the park compared to finding one in New York and many other cit [...]
Money for nothing moves agents in dire straits
One of the many dirty little secrets of the rental services business is that landlords sometimes pay more than one month's rent as a commission. T [...]
New additions to Yo’s apartment rental bedbug do-not-call list
Earlier today I spent about half an hour searching Craigslist apartment ads for apartment rental / finder / locator services –we call them bedbugs [...]
How to cut your first month’s rent in half
We’ve previously alerted you to twenty-five things apartment rental services won’t tell you.
Now we’ll alert you to one they wish you’d never k [...]
YoChicago’s new at-a-glance list of downtown and Lincoln Park apartments
Chicago’s apartment rental services / locators / finders (bedbugs) work diligently to make you believe that finding an apartment in Chicago is a d [...]
Most-viewed posts in the last 30 days
What Yo readers have been reading the most? According to Google Analytics, the five items that were visited most often during the last 30 days wer [...]
Twenty-five things the rental services won’t tell you
The slick-looking Web sites for apartment rental / locator / finder services tell you that you’ve arrived at Chicago’s premier FREE rental service [...]
Yelping about heating cost disclosure
All of YoChicago’s rental Guides link to Yelp reviews of buildings and landlords where they’re available, but those reviews aren’t the only useful inf [...]
Apartment rental bedbugs – Yo’s do-not-call list
Note: Consult the 2014 version of our do-not-call list.
New renters in Chicago are often confused or misled by Craigslist ads into believing th [...]
Available downtown rentals increase seasonally; time to look is now
The inventory of downtown Chicago homes and condos listed for rent in the MLS rose 7.9% during this past week, from 976 units to 1,053.
This s [...]