9/10/14
Quite a few Chicago renters share the misunderstanding that they’ll save time by using a rental services a/k/a apartment finder a/k/a apartment locator to...
9/5/14
A few months ago we identified the top 10 apartment ad spammers at Craigslist. As you might expect, they’re all Chicago rental services a/k/a...
9/2/14
Dishonest and illegal practices are a daily routine for many of the agents at Chicago’s rental services. We’ve spotlighted some of the things rental...
8/26/14
If you scan help wanted ads for Chicago rental services at Craigslist, or visit their websites, you’ll find a number of them claiming to...
8/19/14
Chicago’s rental services are high-turnover operations. New agents are suckered in by promises of high pay, a fun working environment and a clear career...
8/12/14
All of the rental services a/k/a apartment finders a/k/a apartment locators on YoChicago’s do-not-call list have earned a spot on the list by engaging...
7/24/14
Chicago’s piratical rental services would like renters to believe that their services are free. There are renters gullible enough to believe that, just as...
7/21/14
Not all Chicago landlords cooperate with rental service brokers, but the ones that do typically pay a commission equal to a month’s rent. Several...
6/24/14
Live Here Chicago is a rental service that’s on our our do-not-call list and our list of the top 10 Craigslist apartment ad spammers....
6/19/14
The public relations “profession” is notorious for making shotgun pitches to websites without having even the dimmest awareness of how a particular pitch might...
6/19/14
You can see all of the managed apartment building options in River North on YoChicago’s availability list, below. You can learn more about the...
6/11/14
What Oscar Wilde said about marriage perfectly sums up the experience of using or working for a Chicago rental service and trying a different...
6/6/14
We’ve previously written at length about when a rental service should cash a renter’s deposit check. The short answer: not until the renter’s application...
6/5/14
Just over a year ago we spotlighted ApartmentList, a website that claims the following mission: As renters and landlords ourselves, we understand the widespread...
5/27/14
If you’re working with one of Chicago’s rental services and renting in one of the large, professionally managed apartment buildings on our at-a-glance lists,...
5/23/14
I drove part of the East Village neighborhood yesterday looking for FOR RENT signs, and found only three. One was from a known scammer,...
5/19/14
Craigslist doesn’t allow ads to be posted more than once every 48 hours and prohibits keyword spam, i.e. the use of irrelevant terms in...
5/9/14
Yesterday I added a new name to our do-not-call list of Chicago rental services a/k/a apartment locators a/k/a apartment finders. All of the firms...
5/6/14
There are lots of things Chicago’s rental services don’t want you to know about the way they operate, and we’ve previously posted on twenty-five...
5/2/14
A search for South Loop apartments on Craigslist will return over 700 new ads each day, almost all of them from Chicago rental services....