Tag: Advice
Near North Chicago apartment deals and finds
Atwater, 355 E Ohio, will apply the $450 admin fee to the first month's rent for a client who rents a currently vacant apartment within 48 hours o [...]
Lincoln Park apartment deals and finds
Park Lincoln, the 24-story high-rise at 2470 N Clark St, has quietly been undergoing a major makeover of its common areas and apartments.
The r [...]
Lakeview apartment deals and finds
Planned Property is waiving the $300 move-in fee for one-bedrooms renting from $1,300 a month at 634 W Cornelia. The large one-bedrooms in this [...]
That apartment was rented before you applied
Applying for an apartment that's already been rented – or was never available – is just one of the very many pitfalls you'll encounter when you work w [...]
Start your Lakeview apartment hunt with landlords
When you're searching for an apartment in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, Craigslist and rental services are likely to prove a time-consuming, fr [...]
New downtown apartments lowering rents – but not really
A number of new downtown apartment buildings have recently lowered their rents while simultaneously discontinuing free rent offers.
Almost all [...]
For YoChicago, 2014 was a very good year
We've just finished crunching the numbers from our server logs for 2014.
We're pleased to report that YoChicago reached more than 753,000 uniq [...]
Short-term furnished rentals in Chicago high-rises
Almost all of downtown Chicago's rental high-rises have furnished apartments available for short-term stays, either directly from the building or [...]
How fraudulent Yelp reviews help Chicago renters
We've written previously about apparently fraudulent Yelp reviews for Live Here Chicago, a local rental service / apartment locator / apartment fi [...]
Will 2015 be a year of apartment deals and discounts?
The downtown Chicago apartment market added more than 2,000 new rental apartments in 2014.
The rental market showed surprising strength last y [...]
Be wary of Evanston apartment hype
Evanston, home to Northwestern University, is an affluent, highly-educated North Shore suburb. It's the kind of place where you'd expect landlords [...]
Apartments Management Group racks up negative reviews at Yelp
It's not unusual for property management companies to receive negative reviews at Yelp.
Apartments Management Group, a successor to Beal Prope [...]
Should you take your home off the market for the holidays?
If you have your home listed for sale you might have a variety of personal or family reasons for sitting out the holiday season and returning to m [...]
Sign a longer lease and save on rent
The Chicago apartment market typically slows down in the winter season, one reason why local landlords don't like to have leases expiring during t [...]
Is Flats Chicago a vacation rental scofflaw?
Chicago's Vacation Rental Ordinance ("Ordinance") has been on the books for several years, but a quick scan of Airbnb provides evidence that it's [...]
Is Jerome Bressler Chicago’s sleaziest rental agent?
A year ago in October we questioned whether Jerome Bressert was Chicago's sleaziest rental agent.
We didn't receive any nominations for that aw [...]
Apartment People CEO slams Yelp, slimes self
Ilene Collins, CEO of Apartment People, replied to a hyper-positive Yelp review by suggesting that the review might be taken down from the site "s [...]
How to get an edge on renting the best apartments
If you're working with a rental service, the odds are high that you're not going to able to rent some of Chicago's most desirable apartments.
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Prowling Chicago’s alleys with Google
Prowling the alleys can be a great way to learn about a new neighborhood.
If a neighborhood's alleys are strewn with trash and the garage door [...]
How fast your agent gets paid may bias which apartments you see
A recent comment at YoChicago:
I am hearing thru the grapevine that some agents are actually quietly boycotting some buildings and management [...]