Tag: Apartments
What Yo’s YouTube visitors have been watching
If you asked me to guess the three most-watched YoChicago videos during the last 30 days, I'd have guessed wrong on all of them.
YouTube Analy [...]
Vesta Preferred offers misleading advice to renters
Greg Pekarsky, in a blog post (screen cap) at Vesta Preferred, serves up some of the silliest advice imaginable for renters interested in learning [...]
A view of Lincoln Park’s five vanished hospitals
Forty years ago Lincoln Park was home to five hospitals, all of which are now shuttered. You can see all five sites in the above view, shot from t [...]
What’s really for rent in River North
If you want to rent an apartment in River North, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's River North availabilit [...]
Is Fornelli Tower the best apartment deal in the Loop?
A Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily article on student housing reminded me that I'd been meaning to check into the status of Fornelli Hall, a stud [...]
See what’s really for rent in the South Loop
The biggest news in the South Loop apartment market – although it will have little impact on renters – is that ST Residential has put The Lex, a 3 [...]
A closer look at an iMove Chicago broker
iMove Chicago is one of the companies on the dirtiest dozen apartment finders list we're publishing as part of our Craigslist Apartment Cleanup ca [...]
A work-from-home scheme for unlicensed rental agents
Consider the Craigslist recruiting ad recently posted by T-Rock Enterprises a/k/a Chicago Apartment Renters. The Craigslist ad doesn't include, as req [...]
Take an apartment walk with Stephanie and Katie
Stephanie Konow and Katie Bommarito are former rental services agents who grew frustrated with that business and set out to connect Chicago tenant [...]
Chicago’s dirtiest dozen apartment rental services – iMove Chicago is #3
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 – [...]
Yet another River North apartment tower, at Chicago and LaSalle
Just one of the things that make YoChicago unique among local real estate websites is our image library. Other sites have few original photos to d [...]
An up-to-date at-a-glance River North apartment list
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 expandin [...]
Another low in rental service ugliness
We've previously called attention to the fact that Chicago's rental services trash each other as much as they trash renters and landlords.
Thi [...]
An at-a-glance list of what’s actually for rent in the South Loop
The past week has seen a modest increase in the number of lower-priced one-bedrooms available in the South Loop. We've also seen the number of buildi [...]
It’s the wrong the time of year to become a leasing agent
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 season, [...]
The rent now sign on SoNo is so no more
The bright red RENT NOW sign atop SoNo, 860 W Blackhawk, has been a fixture in the Clybourn Corridor sky for about a year.
The sign solicite [...]
Five-developer stampede nearly packs River North nightclub
Have trouble wrapping your mind around that headline? Let the headline and lede of a recent Crain's Chicago Business article unpack it:
Develop [...]
Another major Chicago landlord joins the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup
Some of Chicago's rental services, also known as apartment locators and apartment finders, have been known to lie to renters about Chicago propert [...]
A wine and cheese party at the new 3130 N Lake Shore Drive
The high-rise apartment building at 3130 N Lake Shore Dr has been undergoing a substantial makeover during the past year - a new lobby, apartment [...]
Are renters and landlords losers with Chicago Apartment Finders?
The Habitat Company, for those of you who may not be familiar with it, is in the top-tier of professional management companies. In its more than 4 [...]