Tag: Apartments
Rental deal of the day – a free month’s rent at The Seneca
When we visited The Seneca's website yesterday we were greeted by the popup message you see to the right. The offers: a month's free rent on selected [...]
The Coast – eye-catching architecture and eye-rolling ad copy
The Coast, a 49-story mixed-use glass tower at 345 E Wacker Dr in the Lakeshore East area of the New East Side, is slated to contain 515 apartment [...]
An at-a-glance list of current South Loop apartment rents
The most noticeable trend this past week was a modest upward drift in South Loop rents almost across the board, tracking a slight downtick in the [...]
Urban Lux – long on ads, short on facts
We recently selected Urban Lux as the second entry on our roster of Craigslist's dirtiest dozen advertisers.
As of early yesterday evening a se [...]
Fun and flexible lofts in the heart of Old Town
Cobbler Square, 1350 N Wells St, is one of the signature adaptive reuse projects in Chicago -- or anywhere in the US. In the mid-80s architect Ken [...]
An updated look at Optima Center and 435 North Park
Early yesterday afternoon I visited Streeterville for a look at two major apartment projects underway in the neighborhood.
Drilling of the cais [...]
A Craigslist Apartment Cleanup success story
Our Craigslist Apartment Cleanup has both short-term and long-term goals. In the near term we're focusing on a somewhat arbitrarily-selected "dirt [...]
Hubbard Place apartments rising rapidly, targeting October occupancy
The 495-unit, 43-story Hubbard Place is rising rapidly at 360 W Hubbard in River North, and is about three-quarters of the way toward its full height. [...]
Chicago’s dirtiest dozen rental services – Urban Lux is #2
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 [...]
How Chicago rental services can help clean up Craigslist
As you might expect, I pick up the phone and talk to Chicago rental services. They almost all describe themselves as "one of the good guys" who ab [...]
Trulia deletes unauthorized rental service ads, blocks user accounts
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 com [...]
January deals on Mondial River West 2-bedrooms
It's January and the seasoned Chicago renter knows that many landlords, anxious to fill their winter vacancies, are offering limited-time deals.
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SoNo East apartments sold, River North Park still on the market
Yesterday's Chicago Real Estate Daily reported the sale of the 324-unit SoNo East, 840 W Blackhawk, at an undisclosed price estimated to be betwee [...]
Zillow purges illegal Chicago rental service ads
We can find many things to criticize about Zillow Rentals, and we've already focused on one of them – misleading descriptions of who renters are c [...]
South Loop apartment update – modest price changes, $1,305 one-bedroom available
Last week we noted that the lowest-priced units rented out during the previous week at several South Loop apartment buildings.
There were only [...]
Chicago’s dirtiest dozen rental services – Rent Proactive is #1
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 d [...]
Killing Rent Proactive spam ads on Craigslist
According to Craigslist, "Free classified ads sufficiently flagged are subject to automated removal."
Rent Proactive, a Chicago-based apartmen [...]
These apartments are unbelievable, awesome, amazing
If you scan enough Craigslist ads you'll find words that are almost always used only by Chicago's sleazy rental services.
We searched Craigsli [...]
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
Cobbler Square has joined the growing roster of properties and management companies supporting the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup, a campaign whose [...]