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JAB Real Estate takes the lead in cleaning up Craigslist
Anyone who’s searched for a Chicago apartment within the past year knows that the apartment locator servicees have trashed Craigslist with many thousa [...]
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 [...]
Roosevelt Collection sells at half its cost
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (apparently behind its paywall) that a deal is imminent for the sale of the Roosevelt Collection in the Sout [...]
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 [...]
While you’re at it, Ginger Summers, cut the crap on Yelp
Last Saturday we suggested that an apartment locator (a/k/a bedbug) by the name of Ginger Summers quit spamming Craigslist with thousands of repet [...]
An easy way to clean up Craigslist apartment ads
Management companies, individual property owners and legitimate real estate brokers can quickly and easily clean up the mess that the apartment locato [...]
Hey Ginger Summers, cut the crap on Craigslist
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 Crai [...]
Apartment bedbug lies – Luxury Living Chicago
Chicago’s apartment locators – we call them bedbugs – engage in wholesale bait-and-switch advertising on Craigslist. When you see enough rental se [...]
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 [...]
Yo’s latest apartment guide – Lincoln Park
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 many other c [...]
Yo in review: January 1 – 8
Don't stop thinking about the new year
Edison Park ends its brief flirtation with integration
What Mary likes about Des Plaines
Lincoln Par [...]
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 [...]
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Yo in review: October 30 – November 6
When times go bad in Lake Forest
A Halloween dog parade at K Station
Buy a car or three homes in Ford Heights?
An upbeat, happy home in Winnetka [...]
Yo in review: August 21 – 28
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" than befor [...]