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Online apartment availability check, Presidential Towers
As more of Chicago's large apartment complexes make their exact apartment availability info accessible online, it's becoming easier and easier to [...]
Real and Craigslist fictional rents at The Streeter
The Streeter, a 48-story, 481-unit apartment tower at 345 E Ohio St in Streeterville, was still in lease-up mode and at 56% occupancy when Yo visi [...]
Chicago’s best apartment website gets better
Several months ago we opined that Apartments.com, a national site owned by a group of major newspapers, was the stand-out choice for renters searc [...]
Are you the reason your rent is too damn high?
Jimmy McMillan, the 2010 gubernatorial candidate of New York's Rent Is Too Damn High Party, achieved some notoriety thanks to the many YouTube rem [...]
Tracking MLS-listed north lakefront rentals
Last week we quietly began keeping track of the available inventory of homes and condos listed for rent in six north lakefront ZIP Codes in the lo [...]
Deceiving with images, Mondial apartments edition
It's not uncommon for Chicago apartment websites and videos to engage in a little puffery about the advantages of their location.
WalkScore.co [...]
Chicago’s best apartment rental website
There's no single website that's best for Chicago apartment searches of all types.
There is, however, one that stands out if you're limiting y [...]
Yelp reviews that reek – My Town Realty Group edition
You're all probably highly aware of this phenomenon by now, but a reminder never hurts.
When you're looking at reviews of apartment rental services [...]
Trader Bill’s experience renting with David Nadler
I've frequently cautioned renters about the pitfalls of working with the rental services that I call bedbugs based on their toxic behavior toward [...]
Trader Bill’s experience renting with David Nadler
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I've frequently cautioned renters about the pitfalls of working with the rental services that I call bedbugs based [...]
Chicago Apartment Seekers attracts vitriolic comments
Chicago Apartment Seekers, one of the rental services that we call bedbugs and place on a do-not-call list, runs fictitious addresses in a number [...]
Is RentJuice enabling fraud by unlicensed brokers?
We've previously wondered about Exchange Apartment Finders (EAF), which appeared to be doing business as a real estate broker / apartment finder w [...]
Are landlords eliminating the rental service bedbugs?
I've recently spoken to landlords who have either cut back on their use of the apartment rental services that we call bedbugs, eliminated them ent [...]
This Homestead Group leasing agent has a criminal record
You never know who you're getting in the car with when you work with one of the apartment rental services that we call bedbugs. A number of the re [...]
Trulia rental scam watch and American Realty Pros
We recently wrote about Trulia's doomed efforts to cut back on apartment rental scams in its listings.
The scams continue, as they always will [...]
Trulia applies a Band-Aid to rental fraud problem; YoChicago offers a solution
A recent post at TruliaBlog boasted that:
As online rentals fraud is becoming an industry-wide problem, Trulia is committed to keeping our rent [...]
Department of nuttily misleading info, RentJuice edition
According to a recent news release from RentJuice, the "average cost of renting a home in Chicago is $1,410. Rent for a 3-bedroom in Wrigleyville "is [...]
A New East Side apartment walk with Katie and Stephanie
Stephanie Konow and Katie Bommarito are former rental services agents who grew frustrated with that business and set out to connect Chicago tenant [...]
A New East Side apartment walk with Katie and Stephanie
Stephanie Konow and Katie Bommarito are former rental services agents who grew frustrated with that business and set out to connect Chicago tenants d [...]
An amusing location for a bedbug billboard
Don't let the bedbugs bite, says the ProtectABed.com billboard at Roosevelt Rd and Clinton St.
When YoChicago talks about bedbugs we're generally [...]