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A Gold Coast apartment walk with Stephanie
Stephanie Konow and Katie Bommarito, former apartment rental agents, recently co-founded Chicago Rentals Direct. Having acquired in-depth familiar [...]
Start your search for an August rental now
We've previously highlighted one of the biggest mistakes apartment renters make: starting their search too late.
Many landlords have already id [...]
The biggest apartment search mistakes – Number 3, the online search
The biggest mistake apartment searchers make is failing to focus on a small number of ideal and affordable neighborhoods. The second biggest mista [...]
How unlicensed agents work the system and how to avoid them
The following is an excerpt from an e-mail exchange forwarded to me last night. I've removed identifying information:
Ok, it will show up as [n [...]
RentJuice automates Facebook spam for rental bedbugs
Today's e-mail brings the following news release from RentJuice
:
RentJuice, the online platform developed by real estate insiders that connec [...]
Apartment bedbug spotlight – Downtown Apartment Finders
Every so often we'll spotlight one of the apartment rental "services" – we call them bedbugs – on our apartment finder do-not-call list. Our bedbu [...]
Rental confusion of the day, domu edition
A duplex-up at 1623 W Barry Ave is listed in the MLS at $2,500 a month. Coldwell Banker's Jennifer Witt has the listing.
domu spotlighted the p [...]
Does Chicago Apartment Finders post lying reviews?
It's bedbug vs bedbug out there in apartment rental service reviews.
Most of the rental services (bedbugs) limit themselves to back-of-the-hand sl [...]
How many rental service owners have criminal records?
That question occurred to me after coming across two of them within the past week.
I found the first while researching a rental service whose "bedb [...]
Updating YoChicago’s rental service do-not-call list
As a rough guesstimate, the rental services we call bedbugs are adding more than 10,000 apartment ads a day – many of them bait-and-switch come-on [...]
Every Gold Coast, Near North, River North and Streeterville apartment complex on one map
View Apartments for rent in Chicago's Gold Coast, Near North, River North, Old Town, Streeterville in a larger map
We've had a number of requests t [...]
Most-viewed posts in the last 30 days
The five most-viewed posts on YoChicago in the last 30 days were, in order:
From the vault: Kass and the castle
Lake View mansion like nothi [...]
Yo’s South Loop apartment list on a map
View Apartments for rent in Fulton River District, Loop, New East Side, South Loop, University Village and West Loop in a larger map
We've heard yo [...]
Who is Chicago’s largest apartment rental service?
At least 3 companies claim the title of Chicago's largest apartment rental service.
According to its Web site, The Apartment People is "Chicago [...]
Finding more homes for rent on a Bucktown drive
Earlier this week, Joe Zekas and I wound our way through a few streets in Bucktown, searching for FOR RENT signs. As you saw yesterday, we found e [...]
Slow rentals at Echelon at K Station?
If you're working with a rental service that's touting Echelon at K Station over the alternatives, the reason may be Echelon's latest incentive offer [...]
Yo’s newest apartment Guide – Lake View
Finding an apartment in many Chicago’s neighborhoods is a quick, pleasant walk in the park compared to finding one in New York and many other cit [...]
Money for nothing moves agents in dire straits
One of the many dirty little secrets of the rental services business is that landlords sometimes pay more than one month's rent as a commission. T [...]
New additions to Yo’s apartment rental bedbug do-not-call list
Earlier today I spent about half an hour searching Craigslist apartment ads for apartment rental / finder / locator services –we call them bedbugs [...]