Earlier this month EnV, a luxury apartment high-rise in River North, sent out an email, with a broker agreement attached, informing rental service brokers...
The biggest news in the South Loop apartment market – although it will have little impact on renters – is that ST Residential has...
iMove Chicago is one of the companies on the dirtiest dozen apartment finders list we’re publishing as part of our Craigslist Apartment Cleanup campaign....
Consider the Craigslist recruiting ad recently posted by T-Rock Enterprises a/k/a Chicago Apartment Renters. The Craigslist ad doesn’t include, as required by law, the...
There are scores of rental services on YoChicago’s do-not-call list. We’re singling out twelve of them – the ones we consider the dirtiest dozen...
We’ve been publishing an up-to-date at-a-glance South Loop apartment price and availability list for several months. With this post we’re expanding that service to...
The Illinois Real Estate License Act makes it illegal for a licensed rental service to advertise property for rent without written authorization from the...
We’ve previously called attention to the fact that Chicago’s rental services trash each other as much as they trash renters and landlords. This morning’s...
It’s that time of the year. You’re seeing the ads on Craigslist. Chicago rental services are starting to staff up for the upcoming rental...
If you’ve been scanning real estate jobs at Craigslist you’ve probably seen the above ad for a rental service that currently goes by the...
Some of Chicago’s rental services, also known as apartment locators and apartment finders, have been known to lie to renters about Chicago properties that...
Reading positive reviews of rental services on Yelp invariably reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said of a Dickens’ short story. “One must have...
We recently selected Urban Lux as the second entry on our roster of Craigslist’s dirtiest dozen advertisers. As of early yesterday evening a search...
Chicago’s rental services a/k/a apartment locators a/k/a apartment finders are looking forward to the annual seasonal uptick in rental activity, and advertising to fill...
Our Craigslist Apartment Cleanup has both short-term and long-term goals. In the near term we’re focusing on a somewhat arbitrarily-selected “dirtiest dozen” Craigslist ad...
You’ll find scores of rental services on YoChicago’s do-not-call list. We’re singling out twelve of them – the ones we consider the dirtiest dozen...
As you might expect, I pick up the phone and talk to Chicago rental services. They almost all describe themselves as “one of the...
We’ve previously criticized Trulia for what we deemed a misleading description of contacts in its rental ads, so it’s only appropriate that we compliment...
We can find many things to criticize about Zillow Rentals, and we’ve already focused on one of them – misleading descriptions of who renters...
You’ll find scores of sleazy rental services on YoChicago’s do-not-call list. In the coming weeks we’ll single out twelve of them – the dirtiest...
