3/31/11
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...
3/27/11
Chicago’s apartment rental services / locators / finders (bedbugs) work diligently to make you believe that finding an apartment in Chicago is a daunting...
3/26/11
What Yo readers have been reading the most? According to Google Analytics, the five items that were visited most often during the last 30...
3/21/11
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 info...
3/20/11
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (apparently behind its paywall) that a deal is imminent for the sale of the Roosevelt Collection in the South...
3/18/11
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...
3/18/11
Last Saturday we suggested that an apartment locator (a/k/a bedbug) by the name of Ginger Summers quit spamming Craigslist with thousands of repetitive ads....
3/14/11
Management companies, individual property owners and legitimate real estate brokers can quickly and easily clean up the mess that the apartment locator services that...
3/12/11
Between midnight yesterday and 8:42 this morning, an apartment rental bedbug by the name of Ginger Summers placed 962 housing for rent ads on...
3/8/11
Chicago’s apartment locators – we call them bedbugs – engage in wholesale bait-and-switch advertising on Craigslist. When you see enough rental service ads, you’d...
3/4/11
Apartment rentals have become less seasonal than in years past, when the majority of leases turned over on May 1st or October 1st, but...
1/24/11
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...
1/10/11
Finding an apartment in many of Chicago’s neighborhoods is a quick, pleasant walk in the park compared to finding one in New York and...
1/8/11
Don’t stop thinking about the new year Edison Park ends its brief flirtation with integration What Mary likes about Des Plaines Lincoln Park duplex...
11/18/10
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders –...
11/12/10
Testimonials March 8, 2013 – from a West Loop Realtor: June 17, 2012 – from a YoRents qualified rental agent: Thanks for the Yo...
11/6/10
When times go bad in Lake Forest A Halloween dog parade at K Station Buy a car or three homes in Ford Heights? An...
8/28/10
Can’t keep up with YoChicago throughout the week? Here are some stories you may have missed: Quote: Condo marketing to “cast a wider net”...
7/2/10
First I hear of bedbugs shuttering a Hollister store in SoHo, and then I find maggots in the Chicago Multiple Listing Service. Not a...
3/2/07
We described Presidential Towers as “one of the city’s ritziest rentals” in our post on an alleged bedbug infestation at the high-rise. Keith took...