Tag: Craigslist Apartment Cleanup
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lincoln Park’s landmark Belden-Stratford joins the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup
The Belden-Stratford has joined the roster of properties and management companies supporting the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup, a campaign whose go [...]
On Zillow, Trulia and hotpads, almost every rental service ad is illegal
The headline makes a broad but defensible claim, and one that reflects grossly indefensible behavior on the part of Zillow, Trulia and hotpads.
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Major Chicago landlords act to clean up Craigslist ads
YoChicago recently launched the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup with a goal of eliminating illegal rental service ads, which we estimate to be 95% of [...]
Apartment Savvy doubles down on dumb law-breaking
The Illinois Real Estate License Act makes it illegal for real estate brokers to run blind ads, i.e. ads that don't include the brokerage name, an [...]
How landlords can support the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup
The Craigslist Apartment Cleanup is a campaign to eliminate the repetitive bait-and-switch ads placed on Craigslist by rental services / apartment [...]
The Craigslist Apartment Cleanup begins today
YoChicago is launching a campaign to clean up Craigslist apartment ads by putting a stop to the many 1,000s of illegal ads placed every day by the [...]