Tag: Craigslist
A flood of bait-and-switch apartment ads at Craigslist
As winter approaches and the number of apartment-hunting renters drops, Chicago rental services typically ramp up their year-round efforts to floo [...]
A time-saving way to search Craigslist apartment ads
A few months ago we identified the top 10 apartment ad spammers at Craigslist. As you might expect, they're all Chicago rental services a/k/a apar [...]
Call a time-wasting lawbreaker for your next apartment
All of the rental services a/k/a apartment finders a/k/a apartment locators on YoChicago's do-not-call list have earned a spot on the list by enga [...]
Bypass 1,000s of Craigslist apartment spam ads with a single click
Chicago's rental services promise to make your apartment search swift and painless. To encourage you to use their services they attempt to make yo [...]
Slim pickings on an East Village apartment hunt
I drove part of the East Village neighborhood yesterday looking for FOR RENT signs, and found only three. One was from a known scammer, another h [...]
State Street Properties’ amazing Craigslist apartment spam
With just over 2,500 ads, State Street Properties isn't Craigslist's most prolific apartment ad spammer, but it ranks among the worst of them and [...]
Pay a “free” rental service $1,200 to rent in Roscoe Village
When I ran a search for Roscoe Village apartments at Craigslist yesterday I got 823 results. I scanned many ads that clearly weren't in Roscoe Village [...]
Craigslist spammer of the day: Andy Trejo and iQrentals
We haven't written about Andy Trejo before, but he's been on our radar for well over a year, and his company names have been on our Chicago rental [...]
An update on Chicagoland Property Group’s spam-family Walker
In the coming months we'll be continuing our efforts to make it easier for you to identify and avoid some of Craiglist's worst apartment ad spamme [...]
Chicagoland Property Group makes Craigslist spam a family affair
We recently spotlighted Chicagoland Property Group's Collin Walker as one of Craigslist's worst apartment ad spammers. We also added a business li [...]
Is Chicagoland Property Group Craigslist’s worst apartment spammer?
Craigslist doesn't allow ads to be posted more than once every 48 hours and prohibits keyword spam, i.e. the use of irrelevant terms in ads to dra [...]
Lies Chicago rental services tell – apartment listings
Almost every Chicago rental service a/k/a apartment locator a/k/a apartment finder claims to have the largest database of listings in the city. Th [...]
The best apartments in River North, Streeterville and the South Loop
We've completed our selection of the best apartments, rated on eighteen criteria, in the River North, Streeterville and South Loop neighborhoods.
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What you can do about rental scams
It's a common story. A renter finds a bargain apartment on Craigslist, Trulia or another online site, communicates with a fraud artist posing as t [...]
Simpleton suckers wanted for leasing agent positions
Check out the real estate jobs section at Craigslist and look at ads for leasing agent positions.
One company is touting the ability for new l [...]
Rental services sneer at 500 LSD ban on Craigslist ads
Unlike a number of buildings that don't allow rental services to advertise their property anywhere, 500 Lake Shore Drive's broker agreement (PDF) [...]
Chicago Apartment Hunters, a zombie rental service
A tipster emailed us last week, suggesting that "something smells fishy … over at Chicago Apartment Hunters" (CAH).
At its website CAH bills itself [...]
What’s the best way to find an apartment in Bucktown?
You can drive yourself bonkers searching for a Bucktown apartment on Craigslist or working with apartment rental services, or you can take a smart [...]
Want to join a real estate slime wave?
If you're not very bright, have no self respect, and don't mind committing the occasional crime, Schwab Property Solutions has a job for you.
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Are landlords to blame for rental services’ deceptive ads?
Chicago's rental services routinely spam Craigslist, Trulia, Zillow, hotpads and other websites with high-volume bait-and-switch advertising. They [...]