Tag: Apartment finders

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How you can help kill illegal rental service help wanted ads on Craigslist

How you can help kill illegal rental service help wanted ads on Craigslist

The Illinois Real Estate License Act, 225 ILCS 454, makes it illegal for licensed brokers to run blind ads. Section 1-10 of the Act defines a blin [...]
Old Town’s Cobbler Square joins the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup

Old Town’s Cobbler Square joins the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup

Cobbler Square has joined the growing roster of properties and management companies supporting the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup, a campaign whose [...]
Lincoln Park’s landmark Belden-Stratford joins the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup

Lincoln Park’s landmark Belden-Stratford joins the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup

The Belden-Stratford has joined the roster of properties and management companies supporting the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup, a campaign whose go [...]
On Zillow, Trulia and hotpads, almost every rental service ad is illegal

On Zillow, Trulia and hotpads, almost every rental service ad is illegal

The headline makes a broad but defensible claim, and one that reflects grossly indefensible behavior on the part of Zillow, Trulia and hotpads. [...]
Major Chicago landlords act to clean up Craigslist ads

Major Chicago landlords act to clean up Craigslist ads

YoChicago recently launched the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup with a goal of eliminating illegal rental service ads, which we estimate to be 95% of [...]
Apartment Savvy doubles down on dumb law-breaking

Apartment Savvy doubles down on dumb law-breaking

The Illinois Real Estate License Act makes it illegal for real estate brokers to run blind ads, i.e. ads that don't include the brokerage name, an [...]
How landlords can support the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup

How landlords can support the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup

The Craigslist Apartment Cleanup is a campaign to eliminate the repetitive bait-and-switch ads placed on Craigslist by rental services / apartment [...]
What’s actually available for rent in the South Loop?

What’s actually available for rent in the South Loop?

If you want to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability list. [...]
Most Craigslist ads violate the Illinois Real Estate License Act

Most Craigslist ads violate the Illinois Real Estate License Act

The great majority of the tens of thousands of Chicago apartment ads you see on Craigslist are placed by rental services, also known as locators o [...]
What’s for rent in the South Loop

What’s for rent in the South Loop

If you want to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability list. [...]
An updated rental service do-not-call list

An updated rental service do-not-call list

Note: See the 2014 version of the do-not-call list. This version of the list is out of date. New renters in Chicago are often confused or misle [...]
December is deal time for renters

December is deal time for renters

The tight rental market of the past year has made this a dismaying year for many renters who've seen rising rents and limited apartment availabili [...]
A blizzard of apartment lies on Craigslist

A blizzard of apartment lies on Craigslist

Chicagoland Property Group is a charter member of YoChicago's rental service do-not-call list. A Craigslist search late yesterday surfaced more [...]
Rental service pirates invading the suburbs

Rental service pirates invading the suburbs

A tipster alerted me to a development that's worrisome to suburban landlords, and ought to concern tenants also. City-based rental services have b [...]
The complete at-a-glance South Loop apartment list

The complete at-a-glance South Loop apartment list

If you want to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability list. [...]
YoChicago’s complete South Loop apartment list

YoChicago’s complete South Loop apartment list

If you want to rent in the South Loop, forget Craigslist and apartment finders / rental services and go straight to YoChicago's South Loop availab [...]
YoChicago’s South Loop apartment availability list

YoChicago’s South Loop apartment availability list

If you want to rent in the South Loop you can skip Craigslist and the apartment finders / rental services and check YoChicago's South Loop availab [...]
Another rental service trawls for suckers

Another rental service trawls for suckers

We've posted repeatedly about the perils of filling out an online rental application. Supplying your Social Security Number and other personal informa [...]
Urban Lux irresponsibly solicits suckers

Urban Lux irresponsibly solicits suckers

Are you naïve enough about the realities of identity theft to send your Social Security and Driver's License numbers, and other personal informati [...]
What rental agents like about Echelon at K Station

What rental agents like about Echelon at K Station

Echelon at K Station, a high-rise apartment community in Chicago's Fulton River District, recently updated its common areas despite the fact that [...]
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