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Trulia applies a Band-Aid to rental fraud problem; YoChicago offers a solution
A recent post at TruliaBlog boasted that:
As online rentals fraud is becoming an industry-wide problem, Trulia is committed to keeping our rent [...]
A New East Side apartment walk with Katie and Stephanie
Stephanie Konow and Katie Bommarito are former rental services agents who grew frustrated with that business and set out to connect Chicago tenant [...]
What’s the story on Exchange Apartment Finders?
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 reported o [...]
An amusing location for a bedbug billboard
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 [...]
Earn $100K renting apartments
Six-figure earning potential. No experience required. Great support, training, technology and career-oriented services available from a leading co [...]
The biggest apartment search mistakes – Number 3, the online search
The biggest mistake apartment searchers make is failing to focus on a small number of ideal and affordable neighborhoods. The second biggest mista [...]
How unlicensed agents work the system and how to avoid them
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 [n [...]
Apartment bedbug spotlight – Downtown Apartment Finders
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 bedbu [...]
Does Chicago Apartment Finders post lying reviews?
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 sl [...]
How many rental service owners have criminal records?
That question occurred to me after coming across two of them within the past week.
I found the first while researching a rental service whose "bedb [...]
Updating YoChicago’s rental service do-not-call list
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 come-on [...]
The Lincoln Park apartments at-a-glance list
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 over 10 [...]
Every Gold Coast, Near North, River North and Streeterville apartment complex on one map
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 requests t [...]
Most-viewed posts in the last 30 days
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 like nothi [...]
Yo’s South Loop apartment list on a map
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 heard yo [...]
Who is Chicago’s largest apartment rental service?
At least 3 companies claim the title of Chicago's largest apartment rental service.
According to its Web site, The Apartment People is "Chicago [...]
Slow rentals at Echelon at K Station?
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 [...]
Yo’s newest apartment Guide – Lake View
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 other cit [...]
Money for nothing moves agents in dire straits
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 commission. T [...]
New additions to Yo’s apartment rental bedbug do-not-call list
Earlier today I spent about half an hour searching Craigslist apartment ads for apartment rental / finder / locator services –we call them bedbugs [...]