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...
The Illinois Real Estate License Act (“License Act”) requires brokers to include their name in ads, including ads recruiting new agents or brokers. Scan...
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...
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...
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...
The most noticeable trend this past week was a modest upward drift in South Loop rents almost across the board, tracking a slight downtick...
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...
In your dreams there are – and also at Zillow Rentals, where a query returns 475 single-family homes for rent in ZIP Code 60614....
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...
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...
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...
The great majority of the tens of thousands of Chicago apartment ads you see on Craigslist are placed by rental services, also known as...
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...
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...
If you want to rent in the South Loop, forget Craigslist and apartment finders / rental services and go straight to YoChicago’s South Loop...
If you want to rent in the South Loop you can skip Craigslist and the apartment finders / rental services and check YoChicago’s South...
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...
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...
Craigslist posters often scrape photos from Realtor listings and use them to enhance the credibility of fraudulent offers. The most common form of fraud...
One of our recent commenters touted PadMapper as a way to search for apartments in Chicago, so I thought it might be useful to...
