Category: Apartments
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 [...]
Roosevelt Collection sells at half its cost
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (apparently behind its paywall) that a deal is imminent for the sale of the Roosevelt Collection in the Sout [...]
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 [...]
While you’re at it, Ginger Summers, cut the crap on Yelp
Last Saturday we suggested that an apartment locator (a/k/a bedbug) by the name of Ginger Summers quit spamming Craigslist with thousands of repet [...]
An easy way to clean up Craigslist apartment ads
Management companies, individual property owners and legitimate real estate brokers can quickly and easily clean up the mess that the apartment locato [...]
Hey Ginger Summers, cut the crap on Craigslist
Between midnight yesterday and 8:42 this morning, an apartment rental bedbug by the name of Ginger Summers placed 962 housing for rent ads on Crai [...]
Apartment bedbug lies – Luxury Living Chicago
Chicago’s apartment locators – we call them bedbugs – engage in wholesale bait-and-switch advertising on Craigslist. When you see enough rental se [...]
Suburban Chicago rents up but incentives remain
The median net rent per square foot at suburban Chicago apartment complexes rose 7.4% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a [...]
The May apartment hunt starts now
Apartment rentals have become less seasonal than in years past, when the majority of leases turned over on May 1st or October 1st, but many more apart [...]
Where have all the Loop jobs gone?
The Sun-Times leads with the good news from a newly-issued report from the Chicago Loop Alliance: a growing residential population, more hotel roo [...]
Valley Lo, lakefront living in Glenview
YoChicago has a huge library of drive-around video shot on sunny days this past summer in north suburban and North Shore communities. I just tappe [...]
Quotes of the day – Lincoln Square fantasies
“We hope the new owners keep the building up and keep a mix of locals and independents,” says Melissa Flynn, executive director of the Lincoln Square [...]
Evanston will or won’t clamp down on off-campus housing
Like most cities, Evanston has an ordinance that limits the number of unrelated individuals who can occupy a dwelling unit to three.
In a camp [...]
Rent a pied-a-shore in Highland Park
Thinking about a summer weekend getaway place near the lake?
There’s a rarely-available rental in a HIghland Park coach house across the stree [...]
It’s apartment bedbug recruiting season
At YoChicago we refer to apartment rental services, also known as locators and finders, as bedbugs. It’s our shorthand way of informing you that the l [...]
SoNo rental tower underway
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (behind its paywall) that Smithfield Properties has secured construction financing for the second tower at SoNo [...]
Are smaller lakefront condos headed for decline?
Recently, at sites where the wishful-thinkers don their blinkers and gather to blather about the future of Chicago’s lakefront market, there’s been a [...]
Yo’s latest apartment guide – Lincoln Park
Finding an apartment in many of Chicago’s neighborhoods is a quick, pleasant walk in the park compared to finding one in New York and many other c [...]
A tour of Hyde Park’s Windermere House apartments
The Windermere House, 1642 E 56th St, has an enviable location a short distance from Lake Shore Drive and a Metra station, fronting the Museum of [...]
Locator bedbugs still lying about Roosevelt Collection shops
Back in August of 2009 we reported that apartment locator bedbugs (we used to call them maggots) were beginning to swarm the Roosevelt Collection [...]