Tag: Advice
Have you visited Crain’s and Curbed today?
If you want to stay abreast of what's happening in Chicago real estate you'll have to venture beyond YoChicago and our Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and [...]
Why is the under-35 generation renting rather than owning?
The US Census Bureau recently released data showing that the rate of homeownership among people under the age of 35 has been in a steady decline i [...]
YoChicago at YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter
More than two-thirds of the more than 85,000 unique visitors to YoChicago each month are new to the site, and only 14% of our visitors come direct [...]
The first step in finding your first Chicago apartment
Perhaps the biggest mistake that first-time Chicago renters make is not focusing on exactly where they want to live. That's an easy pit to fall in [...]
Free Chicago rental services and great apartment deals
Chicago's piratical rental services would like renters to believe that their services are free. There are renters gullible enough to believe that, [...]
Should renters claim the broker bonus at 73 East Lake?
Not all Chicago landlords cooperate with rental service brokers, but the ones that do typically pay a commission equal to a month's rent. Several of t [...]
Calling ex-rental service agents to speak out
Recruiting ads for new rental service leasing agents on Craigslist lure the naïve into thinking they'll join a fast-growing elite firm, be trained [...]
Chicago condo smoking bans and more
The smoking ban at the 2626 N Lakeview condominiums is old news by now, but you'll get an expanded look at some of the legal backdrop in the lates [...]
Are Flats Chicago’s Short Stay apartments properly licensed?
Chicago's vacation rental licensing ordinance ("Ordinance") imposes a number of restrictions and requirements on short-term rentals for transient [...]
Some amusing Yelp reviews for Vesta Preferred’s Joe Rush
A new agent starts at a Chicago rental service and, within a matter of days, is receiving five-star reviews at Yelp from people writing their firs [...]
Bypass 1,000s of Craigslist apartment spam ads with a single click
Chicago's rental services promise to make your apartment search swift and painless. To encourage you to use their services they attempt to make yo [...]
A rental service agent trashes his former rental service
Live Here Chicago is a rental service that's on our our do-not-call list and our list of the top 10 Craigslist apartment ad spammers.
We've al [...]
Stay in a new Streeterville high-rise with Airbnb
Airbnb has been around long enough, been the conduit for enough rentals, and refined its policies and checks often enough that you might not have [...]
Follow new Chicago developments at Flickr
We typically visit almost every new construction site in Chicago's lakefront and near-lakefront neighborhoods at least once a month and shoot updated [...]
Are you paying real estate taxes on personal property?
A number of real estate websites include the sales history of a listed property and include both the price reported in public records and the pric [...]
If you’re smart, you’ll stay away from Renturway
The public relations "profession" is notorious for making shotgun pitches to websites without having even the dimmest awareness of how a particula [...]
The perks of high-rise living
The perks of living in one of Chicago's high-rise rental towers extend well beyond lavish amenities, attentive on-site management, maintenance sta [...]
Oscar Wilde’s take on using a Chicago rental service
What Oscar Wilde said about marriage perfectly sums up the experience of using or working for a Chicago rental service and trying a different one if t [...]
Tour twenty Lincoln Park apartment buildings in half an hour
You can fritter away half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie [...]
Apartment People CEO admits to shabby business practice
We've previously written at length about when a rental service should cash a renter's deposit check. The short answer: not until the renter's appl [...]