2/22/13
Not long ago I heard from one of Chicago’s newer high-rises that people were arriving at the building believing they had reservations for short-term...
2/13/13
The Illinois Real Estate License Act (“License Act”) requires brokers to include their name in ads, including ads recruiting new agents or brokers. Scan...
2/4/13
We’ve written about iMove Chicago several times, put it on our Craigslist’s Dirtiest Dozen rental services roster, and wondered why any renter or landlord...
2/1/13
A number of high-rise rental properties are reporting that their Craigslist ads are being flagged and deleted. The deletions are happening “mysteriously,” to quote...
1/17/13
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...
1/10/13
The most noticeable trend this past week was a modest upward drift in South Loop rents almost across the board, tracking a slight downtick...
1/10/13
We recently selected Urban Lux as the second entry on our roster of Craigslist’s dirtiest dozen advertisers. As of early yesterday evening a search...
1/7/13
In your dreams there are – and also at Zillow Rentals, where a query returns 475 single-family homes for rent in ZIP Code 60614....
12/30/12
According to Craigslist, “Free classified ads sufficiently flagged are subject to automated removal.” Rent Proactive, a Chicago-based apartment finder, has long been one of...
12/28/12
If you scan enough Craigslist ads you’ll find words that are almost always used only by Chicago’s sleazy rental services. We searched Craigslist ads...
12/13/12
If you want to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago’s South Loop availability...
12/11/12
The great majority of the tens of thousands of Chicago apartment ads you see on Craigslist are placed by rental services, also known as...
11/19/12
A tipster alerted me to a development that’s worrisome to suburban landlords, and ought to concern tenants also. City-based rental services have begun exploiting...
11/15/12
If you want to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago’s South Loop availability...
11/8/12
If you want to rent in the South Loop, forget Craigslist and apartment finders / rental services and go straight to YoChicago’s South Loop...
11/1/12
If you want to rent in the South Loop you can skip Craigslist and the apartment finders / rental services and check YoChicago’s South...
8/2/12
The most desirable apartments often rent quickly from site signage without ever being posted on Craigslist or being listed with one of Chicago’s sleazy...
7/17/12
As of 9:30 last night, 17,511 ads had been posted yesterday in the Chicago > housing > apts/housing for rent section of Craigslist, almost...
7/9/12
Craigslist posters often scrape photos from Realtor listings and use them to enhance the credibility of fraudulent offers. The most common form of fraud...
4/17/12
One of our recent commenters touted PadMapper as a way to search for apartments in Chicago, so I thought it might be useful to...