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Is Downtown Apartment Company a lawyer-led scofflaw?
According to Downtown Apartment Company's (DAC) website, Benjamin W. Creamer, the company's managing broker, is an attorney who formerly practiced [...]
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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Chicago locators looking for losers
Chicago's apartment rental services a/k/a finders a/k/a locators are constantly recruiting new leasing agents.
Who do the firms hire? They mos [...]
Chicago’s rental services are sliming WalkScore
Misleading renters is the core competency of Chicago's rental services a/k/a apartment locators a/k/a apartment finders. It's about the only thing the [...]
What Chicago’s rental services won’t tell you
It's been two and a half years since we first published a list of twenty-five things Chicago rental services won't tell you but that you need to k [...]
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 [...]
Announcing Chicago’s only objective apartment reviews
If you've been a regular visitor to YoChicago you've probably noticed that we've recently begun to expand our detailed reviews of major apartment [...]
Apartments in Buena Park, Ravenswood, Sheridan Park or just Uptown?
Buena Park, just north of Lake View and west of Lincoln Park, is one of the more desirable parts of the Uptown community, so it's natural that an [...]
A couch potato tour of Lakeview East apartments
In less than an hour you can tour dozens of Lakeview East's best apartment buildings via YoChicago videos. Or you can waste an hour at an apartmen [...]
A couch potato tour of Lincoln Park apartments
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 [...]
How Chicago’s rental services play rushin’ roulette
Rushin' roulette may be as deadly to your finances as Russian roulette is to your health.
Rushin' roulette is a nasty game played by Chicago's [...]
Working with these agents is like eating flies
A tipster forwarded me the latest mugshot of Jerome Bressert, a rental services agent who was recently arrested in DuPage County on a domestic bat [...]
Video tours of 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 [...]
A half-hour tour of twenty 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 [...]
Where rental rookies rate rave reviews
Have you ever wondered about the fact that complete novices at Chicago rental services almost always receive rave reviews on Yelp?
I think it' [...]
Video tours of two dozen 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 [...]
Tour twenty Lincoln Park apartment buildings in half an hour
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 [...]
Are apartment finders playing you for a sucker?
If you're using one of Chicago's apartment finders a/k/a locators a/k/a rental services to look for an apartment, the odds are high that you're not go [...]
Video tours of twenty-one Lakeview East apartments
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 [...]
An updated look at the long-awaited Roosevelt Collection retail
It was nearly four years ago when Chicago's ever-deceptive rental services tried to sucker renters into the Lofts at Roosevelt Collection with the [...]