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Unannounced and short-notice showings are one of the most common complaints that tenants have about landlords and the rental services they employ to rent apartments. A landlord’s right to show an apartment to prospective tenants is limited by the Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance (CRLTO). A landlord can only show a unit to prospective tenants ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 20, 2013
YoChicago recently launched the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup with a goal of eliminating illegal rental service ads, which we estimate to be 95% of all Craigslist rental ads. Cleaning up Craigslist will save Chicago renters countless hours, and make it fast and easy for them to connect directly with landlords and management companies to find their ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 21, 2012
The Craigslist Apartment Cleanup is a campaign to eliminate the repetitive bait-and-switch ads placed on Craigslist by rental services / apartment finders. We estimate that rental service ads account for 95% of all Chicago Craigslist apartment ads – and that virtually all of those ads are illegal. Rid Craigslist of the illegal ads and renters ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 17, 2012
Looking for an apartment in Chicago? Have you ever placed an apartment-wanted ad on Craigslist and wondered whether any landlords would see it? Did your apartment-wanted ad trigger a flood of deceptive come-ons from rental services? Have you ever responded to a dozen Craigslist apartment ads, only to learn that none of them were actually ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 1, 2012
First-time Chicago renters are often clueless about what to expect in the way of fees and policies when they set out to rent an apartment. Their cluelessness is often compounded by well-meaning people offering advice based on their limited personal experience – or their outright bias. You can see some of that confusion in this ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 17, 2012
An individual by the name of Michael Gutierrez has been and is running multiple ads in the Housing Wanted section of Craigslist, claiming he’s in need of apartments for his relocation clients. None of the ads I’ve seen from Gutierrez identify the brokerage firm he’s affiliated with. According to the Illinois Department of Financial & ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 18, 2011
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders – have destroyed Craigslist with 1,000s of repetitive ads, many of them bait-and-switch come-ons and outright fraud. Chicago landlords have long had a hate / fear relationship with these blood-sucking parasites. Hate, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 18, 2010
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