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...
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...
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...
The biggest mistake apartment searchers make is failing to focus on a small number of ideal and affordable neighborhoods. The second biggest mistake is...
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...
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...
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...
That question occurred to me after coming across two of them within the past week. I found the first while researching a rental service...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Earlier today I spent about half an hour searching Craigslist apartment ads for apartment rental / finder / locator services –we call them bedbugs...
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...
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:...
