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River North apartment shootout – Chicagoland Property Group vs YoChicago
We like to think that YoChicago is Chicago's best free rental service. We're an objective, visually rich website with comprehensive apartment revi [...]
Zillow is blocking Chicago rental service IP addresses
Property owners pay commissions to rental services for bringing them prospects. If a major property owner has difficulty getting a rental service to [...]
Flats No. 2500 – how overpriced is it?
Let's compare two very different two-bedroom apartment options in Lincoln Park: one at Flats No. 2500, 2500 N Clybourn, and the other at Eugenie T [...]
Rental services joining Chicago Rental Apartment Partners
Dozens of Chicago's apartment rental services have joined the newly-formed Chicago Rental Apartment Partners, an organization dedicated to raising eth [...]
Is this rental service agent running a charity scam?
I highly recommend avoiding Chicago's rental services and working with an established broker at one of the large reputable firms if you're going t [...]
How rental services scale law-breaking
Chicago's sleazy rental services pollute Craigslist and other websites with 1,000s upon 1,000s of ads every single day. The goal: confuse and frus [...]
The minimum wage for leasing agents is less than zero
The spring and summer rental market is heating up and Chicago's rental services a/k/a apartment locators a/k/a apartment finders are advertising o [...]
Tour dozens of Lakeview East apartment buildings
You can spend less than an hour touring some of Lakeview East's best apartment buildings in YoChicago videos. Or you can waste an hour at an apart [...]
Video tours of twenty Lincoln Park apartment buildings
You can waste half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent [...]
Avoid falling victim to Chicago rental services – check cashing edition
One of the recurring horror stories you'll read in reviews of Chicago's shark-like rental services is the difficulty renters have in getting refunds w [...]
Do Uber drivers out-earn new leasing agents?
Chicago's rental services trawl for new recruits with promises of flexible hours, independence and "unlimited earnings potential."
The Uber ri [...]
A Chicago landlord’s advice re rental services
A recent comment contains a lot of solid advice for small landlords on how to deal with Chicago's piratical rental services. Here's a lightly-edit [...]
Lies Chicago rental services tell – licensed experts
Chicago's rental services, a/k/a apartment finders a/k/a apartment locators, would have you believe that you'll be benefitting from the assistance [...]
Chicago renters make themselves easy prey
How else can you explain the fact that someone like James Tarr, despite disciplinary actions in November of 2000, February of 2005 and February of [...]
The Homestead Group’s sucker bait: $2,500 a week, licensed agents
The headline on a Craigslist help wanted ad from The Homestead Group ("THG") invites the gullible to "Earn $2500 Per Week Leasing Chicago's Finest [...]
How churned-and-burned leasing agents can cut their losses
Last year 100s of people signed on with one of Chicago's rental services to begin what they were led to believe might be a lucrative career in rea [...]
Renters can be driven to distraction when driven around
"We'll drive you around" is a common refrain from Chicago's rental services. That's one of the few promises rental services make that they routinely k [...]
Sit back and tour dozens of Lakeview East apartment buildings
You can spend less than an hour seeing some of Lakeview East's best apartment buildings in YoChicago video tours. Or you can waste an hour at an a [...]
Video tours of seventeen Lincoln Park apartment buildings
You can spend half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent [...]
iMove’s outrageous moves on Rentenna
We've previously singled out iMove Chicago as one of the sleaziest of Chicago's rental services, a sleazy group that it isn't easy to stand out fr [...]