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How to cut your first month’s rent in half
We’ve previously alerted you to twenty-five things apartment rental services won’t tell you.
Now we’ll alert you to one they wish you’d never k [...]
Is Rent Proactive shafting landlords?
We’ve written previously asking Ginger Summers of Rent Proactive to cut the crap on Craigslist and on Yelp. Ginger’s with one of the rental servic [...]
YoChicago’s new at-a-glance list of downtown and Lincoln Park apartments
Chicago’s apartment rental services / locators / finders (bedbugs) work diligently to make you believe that finding an apartment in Chicago is a d [...]
Most-viewed posts in the last 30 days
What Yo readers have been reading the most? According to Google Analytics, the five items that were visited most often during the last 30 days wer [...]
Yelping about heating cost disclosure
All of YoChicago’s rental Guides link to Yelp reviews of buildings and landlords where they’re available, but those reviews aren’t the only useful inf [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Chicago landlords can eliminate the Craigslist bedbug infestation
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders – h [...]
A guide to renting Streeterville apartments and condos
There are hundreds of condos and a few townhomes available for rent in Streeterville, the neighborhood bounded by the river, the lake, Michigan Avenue [...]
A guide to renting a home or apartment in the South Loop
The major attractions of the South Loop are its proximity to the Loop and to the lakefront parks. It’s also relatively affordable, compared to the nea [...]
A guide to renting a home or apartment in the Loop / New East Side
Living in the heart of downtown Chicago limits your options to high-rise apartments and condos. There are only eleven rental towers in the Loop / New [...]
Apartment rental bedbugs infest Glenview
Some of you may be familiar wth my long-standing practice of referring to apartment rental services as maggots.
I’ve decided that reference is unfa [...]
Yo's list – a guide to renting Loop / New East Side apartments and condos
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for Loop / New East Side apartments, most of them featuring the eleven (that’s all there are) rental high-rise [...]
Yo's list – A guide to renting Streeterville apartments and condos
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for Streeterville apartments, most of them featuring the eleven (that's all there are) rental high-rises in th [...]
What to expect when renting a condo
If you've never rented a condo before you might be in for a series of rude shocks: unexpected delays, hefty fees, gotcha pet policies – even a visit [...]
Yo's year: Roosevelt Collection revisited
December's a month meant for retrospectives and year-end lists, so over these final three weeks of 2009, I'll dig back through our archives to see w [...]
Is there a need for Homescout Realty?
In a comment on an earlier YoChicago post Michael Krasman, one of the founders of Homescout Realty (I don't link to apartment rental services) posed t [...]
Don't call this number: 773-273-7079
If you search 773-273-7079 in the apartments section on Craigslist you'll find 1,000 ads for apartments for rent. If you Google the number you'll find [...]
Maggots begin to swarm Roosevelt Collection
After long experience, I've formed very strong opinions about apartment rental services, and often find myself shortening the phrase "apartment rental [...]