Tag: Advice
Bring mom on your apartment hunt and save $300
Add this to the many ways that mom can be helpful when you're searching for a new apartment.
Planned Property is offering a Mother's Day specia [...]
Start your July 1 apartment search now
Savvy Chicago renters know that the best apartments rent quickly and are rarely available to last-minute lookers.
Major management companies h [...]
Downtown Chicago apartment deals and finds, 4/24/15
The leasing office and four furnished models are now open at Jeff Jack, a new West Loop apartment tower at 601 W Jackson.
JeffJack is offering [...]
Old Town, River North, Streeterville and Gold Coast apartment deals and finds, 4/23/15
Parc Huron in River North, is offering a month-and-a-half free rent on select one-bedroom apartments for leases beginning before April 30.
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Help wanted – Apartment customer service manager
This is something new for YoChicago – a help wanted posting from Planned Property Management, one of our advertisers.
We've been hearing a number [...]
Lincoln Park and Lakeview apartment deals and finds, 4/22/15
Eugenie Terrace is Lincoln Park's only full-amenity luxury rental high-rise.
Eugenie Terrace has a very rare 2 bedroom combined with a studio [...]
Downtown Chicago apartment deals and finds, 4/10/15
K2 Apartments, 365 N Halsted in the Fulton River District is offering a free month's rent on select floor plans for leases beginning before April [...]
Old Town, River North, Streeterville and Gold Coast apartment deals and finds, 4/9/15
1225 Old Town has extended hardwood flooring throughout the 3-bedroom, 2-bath Unit 1208, renting for $5,073 a month.
Unit 1207, also a 3-b [...]
Lincoln Park and Lakeview apartment deals and finds, 4/8/15
Halsted Flats opened a year ago as the first new full-amenity rental tower built in Lakeview in decades.
Apartments that had rented quickly ar [...]
Want a lucrative career leasing luxury apartments?
It's that time of year again. Chicago's rental services are advertising heavily at Craigslist, touting six-figure incomes, unlimited earnings pote [...]
Great Lincoln Park apartments are off-limits to rental services
Working with a rental service guarantees that you'll miss out on some of the best located, most fairly priced and most nicely renovated apartments [...]
Many of Lakeview’s best apartments are off-limits to rental services
If you're looking for an apartment in Lakeview, working with a rental service a/k/a apartment locator a/k/a apartment finder guarantees that you'l [...]
April Fools’ Day is Chicago Rental Services Day
Yesterday's brief encounter with a career criminal working as a Chicago leasing agent left me in a somber mood.
Kenneth W. Arron a/k/a Kenny Yo [...]
Is a career criminal working as a Chicago leasing agent?
A tipster alerted me this morning that an individual with a lengthy criminal record is applying, using an alias, to work as a leasing agent at som [...]
No appointment necessary at most high-rise apartments
Chicago rental services would like you to believe that they have an inside track on scheduling showings at Chicago's apartment towers. They don't. [...]
Road rage and rental agent roulette
According to an ABC 7 report, Martin Vigil has been charged with misdemeanor assault, leaving the scene of an accident, and criminal damage to pro [...]
Downtown Chicago apartment deals and finds, 3/27/15
The leasing office and four furnished models are now open at Jeff Jack, a new West Loop apartment tower at 601 W Jackson.
JeffJack is offering [...]
Old Town, River North, Streeterville and Gold Coast apartment deals and finds, 3/26/15
Planned Property is offering a month's free rent on all 2-bedroom apartments at 1000 North LaSalle, a building with a private dog park.
Che [...]
Lincoln Park and Lakeview apartment deals and finds, 3/25/15
3838 North Broadway has just undergone a complete renovation and has stylish new studios available from $855 a month.
2756 North Pine Grove [...]
Chicago rental service deceptions, net rent edition
Advertising a lower rent than what's actually available in a building is only one of the many ways that Chicago rental services trawl for renters. [...]