Tag: Advice
YoChicago videos viewed more than 3 million times
Late last week YoChicago's primary YouTube channel passed the 3 million view mark for its more than 2,300 videos. The next milestone we're closi [...]
Tips for sellers with renter-occupied property
The market downturn of the past several years prompted many condo and home owners who needed to move on to rent their property rather than sell an [...]
Tour twenty-one Lakeview East apartments in less than an hour
You can spend an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent who w [...]
Tour Lincoln Park apartments via YoChicago videos and fight global warming
You can spend half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent [...]
How life’s lived in renovated vintage apartments
BJB Properties, one of our sponsors, owns and manages dozens of newer and recently-renovated vintage apartment buildings in prime Gold Coast, Lincoln [...]
Is Chicago Apartment Finders soliciting students to commit a crime?
The Illinois Real Estate License Act requires people who refer or assist in referring apartment rental prospects for compensation to be licensed. [...]
Find your next apartment with foot power
The worst mistake Chicago apartment hunters make is not getting a solid fix on where they want to live and satisfying themselves that acceptable a [...]
Watch video tours of twenty-eight Lake View apartment buildings
You can spend an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent who w [...]
Leasing agent works 16 months on 120-day permit
Rent Here Realty's Chardonnee Cunningham has five glowing reviews at Yelp, the most recent from two weeks ago. The earliest of the remaining four, [...]
Watch video tours of seventeen Lincoln Park apartment buildings
You can spend half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent [...]
ApartmentList.com is a garbage dump
Yesterday's email from a real estate broker included a link to ApartmentList.com, a site I hadn't previously seen, along with the following summar [...]
Is master bedroom a racist, gender-biased phrase?
Back in the mid-90s the Department of Housing and Urban Development issued proposed guidelines for bringing enforcement actions for violations of [...]
Don’t overlook construction noise when renting your next apartment
Yesterday I stepped out onto the balcony of an 18th floor northwest corner unit at Astoria Tower, 40 E 9th St in the South Loop, to capture the ab [...]
Chicago summer rentals – no Irish need apply
We recently received the following inquiry concerning summer housing:
Hi my name is [redacted] and I am a twenty two year old student from Dubl [...]
Keeping watch on Ukrainian Village and East Village
With the recent demise of EveryBlock, Facebook is becoming a more active venue for sharing neighborhood information.
Check out the very active [...]
Accurate Chicago neighborhood maps and boundaries
As the rental season heats up, a lot of Chicago newcomers, and long-time residents alike, are encountering unfamiliar neighborhood names, and are [...]
Is this a bad move for Chicago renters?
A major property owner recently gave rental services, via its non-exclusive brokerage agreement, sweeping written authorization to advertise its p [...]
Curbed vs YoChicago re Luxury Living Chicago
On Friday Curbed Chicago featured Luxury Living Chicago's Aaron Galvin as downtown Chicago's "top rental broker," touted his "expertise" and invit [...]
Chicago Apartment Hunters, a zombie rental service
A tipster emailed us last week, suggesting that "something smells fishy … over at Chicago Apartment Hunters" (CAH).
At its website CAH bills itself [...]
A Chicago rental service predator is still preying
On February 14 the Illinois Real Estate Administration and Disciplinary Board voted to impose a $100,000 fine on James Tarr and Exchange Apartment [...]