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Is Kale Realty a rental service scofflaw?
Illinois law bars licensed real estate agents from advertising property without written permission and bans the "use of URL, domain name, metatag, [...]
State levies $100,000 fine on Exchange Apartment Finders
The Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation has levied a $100,000 civil penalty (pdf) against The Exchange Apartment Finders (EAF) [...]
April Fools’ Day is Chicago Rental Services Day
Yesterday's brief encounter with a career criminal working as a Chicago leasing agent left me in a somber mood.
Kenneth W. Arron a/k/a Kenny Yo [...]
Road rage and rental agent roulette
According to an ABC 7 report, Martin Vigil has been charged with misdemeanor assault, leaving the scene of an accident, and criminal damage to pro [...]
Luxury Living Chicago’s new twist on deceptive rental service ads
The Illinois Real Estate License Act prohibits "blind advertisements," i.e. ads that do not contain the name of the broker licensee that placed th [...]
What do rental service agents really earn at Live Here Chicago?
We've previously written about fraudulent reviews of Live Here Chicago, one of the rental services on our do-not-call list. We've also called atte [...]
Call a time-wasting lawbreaker for your next apartment
All of the rental services a/k/a apartment finders a/k/a apartment locators on YoChicago's do-not-call list have earned a spot on the list by enga [...]
A rental service agent trashes his former rental service
Live Here Chicago is a rental service that's on our our do-not-call list and our list of the top 10 Craigslist apartment ad spammers.
We've al [...]
Slim pickings on an East Village apartment hunt
I drove part of the East Village neighborhood yesterday looking for FOR RENT signs, and found only three. One was from a known scammer, another h [...]
Rental service quote of the day – kill granny
Yesterday I added a new name to our do-not-call list of Chicago rental services a/k/a apartment locators a/k/a apartment finders.
All of the fi [...]
Is Quantum Apartments vandalizing your neighborhood?
Can there really be a business brain-dead enough to document acts of vandalism on its behalf on YouTube? There apparently can, and its name is Qua [...]
How Trulia misleads Chicago renters
Rental apartment listings at Trulia surface a bright "Contact Property" link that badly misleads renters.
When you submit information via the l [...]
Do Live Here Chicago’s fraudulent Yelp reviews doom its employees?
A little over a year ago we questioned whether Urban Lux, a rental service on our do-not-call list, was responsible for the dumbest-ever reviews a [...]
Is Jerome Bressert Chicago’s sleaziest rental agent?
We realize that the title of "Chicago's sleaziest rental agent" has lots of contenders vying for it. You'll find 100s of them in the employ of the [...]
More choices, lower rents in the South Loop
Some good news for renters.
Since the last time we checked, prices have fallen slightly almost across the board on apartments available for ren [...]
Is iMove Chicago circling the drain?
We've written repeatedly about iMove Chicago, one of the rental services / apartment locators / apartment finders on our do-not-call list. The company [...]
An updated look at South Loop apartment rents
Renters appear to have a wider selection of available apartments in the South Loop than they did a month ago.
If you're looking to rent in the [...]
Are River North rents drifting downward?
Removal of the large billboard that had been on the site is the first visible sign of progress on a new 33-story, 290-unit apartment tower slated [...]
Find your next River North apartment here
Apartment rents at Chicago's downtown high-rises are frequently updated by programs similar to those used by airline reservation systems. We take [...]
The easy way to find your next South Loop apartment
If you're planning to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability li [...]