7/7/11
The following anonymous e-mail was received earlier in the day: If you want a REAL interesting story that (to my knowledge) has not been...
7/6/11
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 referring to...
6/27/11
Six-figure earning potential. No experience required. Great support, training, technology and career-oriented services available from a leading company. Etc. Etc. Etc. That’s the sort...
5/30/11
The biggest mistake apartment searchers make is failing to focus on a small number of ideal and affordable neighborhoods. The second biggest mistake is...
5/27/11
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...
5/18/11
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...
4/28/11
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 slurs of their...
4/27/11
That question occurred to me after coming across two of them within the past week. I found the first while researching a rental service...
4/20/11
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...
4/19/11
We’ve just published the first draft of our Lincoln Park apartments at-a-glance list. The list – a work in progress – contains links to...
4/16/11
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...
4/16/11
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...
4/15/11
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...
4/15/11
At least 3 companies claim the title of Chicago’s largest apartment rental service. According to its Web site, The Apartment People is “Chicago’s largest...
4/14/11
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...
4/13/11
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...
4/12/11
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...
4/8/11
Earlier today I spent about half an hour searching Craigslist apartment ads for apartment rental / finder / locator services –we call them bedbugs...
4/7/11
Anyone who’s searched for a Chicago apartment within the past year knows that the apartment locator servicees have trashed Craigslist with many thousands of...
4/4/11
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 known:...