11/13/14
As winter approaches and the number of apartment-hunting renters drops, Chicago rental services typically ramp up their year-round efforts to flood Craigslist with bait-and-switch...
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...
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...
7/1/14
Chicago’s rental services promise to make your apartment search swift and painless. To encourage you to use their services they attempt to make your...
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,...
4/10/14
With just over 2,500 ads, State Street Properties isn’t Craigslist’s most prolific apartment ad spammer, but it ranks among the worst of them and...
4/9/14
When I ran a search for Roscoe Village apartments at Craigslist yesterday I got 823 results. I scanned many ads that clearly weren’t in...
4/7/14
We haven’t written about Andy Trejo before, but he’s been on our radar for well over a year, and his company names have been...
4/4/14
In the coming months we’ll be continuing our efforts to make it easier for you to identify and avoid some of Craiglist’s worst apartment...
4/3/14
We recently spotlighted Chicagoland Property Group’s Collin Walker as one of Craigslist’s worst apartment ad spammers. We also added a business listing for the...
3/31/14
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...
3/3/14
Almost every Chicago rental service a/k/a apartment locator a/k/a apartment finder claims to have the largest database of listings in the city. They can’t...
1/27/14
We’ve completed our selection of the best apartments, rated on eighteen criteria, in the River North, Streeterville and South Loop neighborhoods. Within a day...
11/19/13
It’s a common story. A renter finds a bargain apartment on Craigslist, Trulia or another online site, communicates with a fraud artist posing as...
10/23/13
Check out the real estate jobs section at Craigslist and look at ads for leasing agent positions. One company is touting the ability for...
5/6/13
Unlike a number of buildings that don’t allow rental services to advertise their property anywhere, 500 Lake Shore Drive‘s broker agreement (PDF) explicitly authorizes...
3/25/13
A tipster emailed us last week, suggesting that “something smells fishy … over at Chicago Apartment Hunters” (CAH). At its website CAH bills itself...
3/12/13
You can drive yourself bonkers searching for a Bucktown apartment on Craigslist or working with apartment rental services, or you can take a smart...
3/11/13
If you’re not very bright, have no self respect, and don’t mind committing the occasional crime, Schwab Property Solutions has a job for you....
2/25/13
Chicago’s rental services routinely spam Craigslist, Trulia, Zillow, hotpads and other websites with high-volume bait-and-switch advertising. They habitually advertise properties without having the written...