1/25/13
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...
1/24/13
The biggest news in the South Loop apartment market – although it will have little impact on renters – is that ST Residential has...
1/24/13
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....
1/22/13
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...
1/21/13
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...
1/18/13
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...
1/18/13
The Illinois Real Estate License Act makes it illegal for a licensed rental service to advertise property for rent without written authorization from the...
1/17/13
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...
1/16/13
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...
1/14/13
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...
1/14/13
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...
1/11/13
Reading positive reviews of rental services on Yelp invariably reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said of a Dickens’ short story. “One must have...
1/10/13
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...
1/9/13
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...
1/8/13
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...
1/7/13
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...
1/5/13
As you might expect, I pick up the phone and talk to Chicago rental services. They almost all describe themselves as “one of the...
1/4/13
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...
1/3/13
We can find many things to criticize about Zillow Rentals, and we’ve already focused on one of them – misleading descriptions of who renters...
1/2/13
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...