Tag: Tips

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Chicago’s Lakeview East – Insider tips for first-time renters

Chicago’s Lakeview East – Insider tips for first-time renters

The Lakeview East neighborhood is the first choice for many first-time renters. Its pedestrian-friendly streets host a ton of one-of-a-kind bars, [...]
Top 5 reasons to avoid Chicago apartment rental brokers

Top 5 reasons to avoid Chicago apartment rental brokers

Chicago's apartment rental brokers a/k/a locators a/k/a finders would like you to believe that it's difficult, time-consuming and frustrating to f [...]
The 2023 list of Chicago’s best landlords

The 2023 list of Chicago’s best landlords

Waterton, our featured management company, is a Chicago-based $4 billion investor and property manager whose "passion for service and investment e [...]
Walk-to-work apartments near Leo Burnett and Winston & Strawn

Walk-to-work apartments near Leo Burnett and Winston & Strawn

If you work at Winston & Strawn, Leo Burnett, or one of the other major employers at 35 W Wacker Dr, you have a great selection of apartments at 1 [...]
Walk-to-office apartments for Kirkland & Ellis and Quarles & Brady

Walk-to-office apartments for Kirkland & Ellis and Quarles & Brady

If you work at Kirkland & Ellis, Quarles & Brady, The Boston Consulting Group, or one of the other major employers at 300 North LaSalle, you have [...]
Is Trudo Realty employing unlicensed leasing agents?

Is Trudo Realty employing unlicensed leasing agents?

Trudo Realty, which has been on our rental service do-not-call list and our top ten ad-spammers list for years, currently has more than 5,100 apar [...]
Chicago Residential Group – renters beware

Chicago Residential Group – renters beware

We've been a keen observer of Chicago's rental service industry for many years, and have yet to see a single company that consistently operates wi [...]
How to get the worst deal on a Lincoln Park or Lakeview apartment

How to get the worst deal on a Lincoln Park or Lakeview apartment

If you're apartment hunting in the prime near-lakefront areas of Lincoln Park or Lakeview, working with one of Chicago's apartment finders (a/k/a [...]
Short-term apartment provider Suite Home Chicago wins a national award

Short-term apartment provider Suite Home Chicago wins a national award

Suite Home Chicago, a provider of short-term, fully-furnished luxury apartments, was given the “Company Member of the Year” award by the Corporate [...]
Rental services are a bad bet for Lincoln Park and Lakeview East apartments

Rental services are a bad bet for Lincoln Park and Lakeview East apartments

If you're looking to rent in a prime near-the-park location in Lincoln Park or Lakeview East, the worst mistake you can make is to work with one o [...]
The 2017 list of Chicago’s best landlords

The 2017 list of Chicago’s best landlords

The City of Chicago publishes a list of problem landlords, and updates it twice a year. The list has no properties in the prime near-lakefront nei [...]
Dan Willenborg’s AptAmigo is an outlaw rental service

Dan Willenborg’s AptAmigo is an outlaw rental service

Section 20-22 of the Illinois Real Estate License Act provides that: "Any person who is found working or acting as a managing broker, real es [...]
Is your rental service agent a convicted criminal?

Is your rental service agent a convicted criminal?

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation ("IDFPR") is responsible for licensing real estate professionals. In our judgment [...]
Money-saving tips re the length of your lease

Money-saving tips re the length of your lease

Apartment communities try to maximize their rents – no surprise there. One element in rent maximization is timing lease expirations into periods o [...]
YoChicago’s updated list of Chicago’s best landlords

YoChicago’s updated list of Chicago’s best landlords

YoChicago knows some very good landlords, some of the city's best. The properties they manage range from vintage walk-ups to the newest luxury hig [...]
Is North Star leasing agent Zach Gotkin ripping off Uptown renters?

Is North Star leasing agent Zach Gotkin ripping off Uptown renters?

In a previous post we noted that we consider North Star Real Estate Group's Zach Gotkin an abusive liar. Gotkin had 1,602 abusively repetitive [...]
April 1 is Chicago Apartment Locators Day

April 1 is Chicago Apartment Locators Day

Last April 1, after outing a career criminal working as a leasing agent, we abandoned our practice of writing hoax posts on April Fools' Day, post [...]
Daniel Zager, scofflaw agent at Chicago Apartment Leasing Group

Daniel Zager, scofflaw agent at Chicago Apartment Leasing Group

My attention was drawn to Daniel Zager when I saw copyrighted photos I'd shot in an ad he'd placed for a property that doesn't allow brokers to ad [...]
Chicago Property Genius, bait-and-switch scofflaws adopt a new name

Chicago Property Genius, bait-and-switch scofflaws adopt a new name

It’s been nearly two years since we’ve written about the prolific Craigslsit apartment ad spammers at State Street Properties. Since our post [...]
Zach Gotkin at North Star Real Estate Group is an abusive liar

Zach Gotkin at North Star Real Estate Group is an abusive liar

As of this morning Zach Gotkin at North Star Real Estate Group had 1,257 abusively repetitive ads online at Craigslist. Four days ago he had 1,602 [...]
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