Tag: Advice
Go directly to the landlord when renting an apartment
Finding an apartment in Chicago through an apartment rental service can be a time-wasting and frustrating experience.
When renters go directly [...]
Rules for renters in dealings with Chicago rental services
Chicago renters often find dealing with rental services an experience that's frustrating at best and an expensive, life-disrupting nightmare at wo [...]
Rookie high-rise tenants whining about the heat
Most Chicagoans are thoroughly enjoying the recent record high temperatures. Most, but not all.
We've heard that twenty-something rookie renter [...]
Stop using Craigslist to shop for rentals, says real estate veteran
Dennis Dooley is a seasoned veteran of the real estate industry, having served in management positions at both a local and national level.
He's [...]
Always ask to see a rental agent’s licenses
Many of Chicago's rental services employ unlicensed staff in flagrant violation of the law, fully aware of the fact that they're committing a crim [...]
Vintage in decline? Nine steps you can take to sell
The market for vintage condos in Chicago has been on a steady decline for the last 5 years. In 2007 vintage sales, as a percent of total sales, we [...]
Scanning Craigslist apartment ads is March madness
Chicago-based apartment rental website domu has written about "why you should ditch craigslist for your apartment search" and tallied more than 19 [...]
YoChicago gets around Chicagoland
Keeping faith with one of our tag lines – Chicagoland's #1 real estate video channel – we've shot video in 37 Chicago neighborhoods and 7 suburbs [...]
Where oh where is Roscoe Village?
As the rental season heats up, newcomers to Chicago often find themselves mystified by the many neighborhood names they see in rental ads: Roscoe [...]
YoChicago launches YoRents, online speed-dating for renters and landlords
Looking for an apartment in Chicago? Have you ever placed an apartment-wanted ad on Craigslist and wondered whether any landlords would see it? Di [...]
YoChicago’s at-a-glance apartment lists just got better
Are you looking for an apartment in the Loop, West Loop or South Loop? Do you have a deep craving for painful, time-wasting, risk-fraught experien [...]
How to stage your guest suites and models
Home stagers face a lot of challenges when decorating models and guest suites for apartment owners and real estate developers.
They need to del [...]
Why condo prices can fall harder than house prices
Earlier this week, I wrote about three neighborhoods -- Rogers Park, Humboldt Park, and Irving Park -- whose condominium markets have been pummele [...]
Tales from an apartment hunt – unreliable prices, disreputable brokers
One of my correspondents, a veteran renter, has been sending me periodic updates on his experiences in searching for his next apartment. Here's hi [...]
Tales from an apartment hunt – brokers vs rental services
One of my correspondents, a veteran renter, has been sending me periodic updates on his experiences in searching for his next apartment. Here's th [...]
Chicago’s best apartment website gets better
Several months ago we opined that Apartments.com, a national site owned by a group of major newspapers, was the stand-out choice for renters searc [...]
Are you the reason your rent is too damn high?
Jimmy McMillan, the 2010 gubernatorial candidate of New York's Rent Is Too Damn High Party, achieved some notoriety thanks to the many YouTube rem [...]
YoChicago’s YouTube channel passes the two million view mark
Videos at YoChicago's primary YouTube channel have been viewed more than two million times.
To put that number in some perspective, YoChicago [...]
Chicago rental services closing offices, rebranding, testing new business models
As Chicago's rental market strengthens and vacancies decrease, a number of landlords have been cutting back on their use of apartment rental servi [...]
Is a phony Yelp review a felony?
Last Saturday we called attention to a pattern of suspicious reviews of Reside Living buildings at Yelp.
The first positive review of Reside a [...]