3/28/12
In order for a real estate broker to list a property for rent in the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) it must have a...
3/26/12
Finding an apartment in Chicago through an apartment rental service can be a time-wasting and frustrating experience. When renters go directly to the owner...
3/26/12
Chicago renters often find dealing with rental services an experience that’s frustrating at best and an expensive, life-disrupting nightmare at worst. I recently sat...
1/10/12
Help wanted ads for the apartment rental industry – the folks we refer to as bedbugs and place on a do-not-call list – routinely...
9/12/11
I’ve recently spoken to landlords who have either cut back on their use of the apartment rental services that we call bedbugs, eliminated them...
8/30/11
You never know who you’re getting in the car with when you work with one of the apartment rental services that we call bedbugs....
8/24/11
We’ve written about Rent Smart Chicago several times – calling attention to its owner’s criminal record and its claim to be “Chicago’s largest and...
8/8/11
If you’re not, stay far, far away. The Craigslist ad you see pictured above does not, as Illinois law requires, disclose the name of...
7/31/11
A recent post at TruliaBlog boasted that: As online rentals fraud is becoming an industry-wide problem, Trulia is committed to keeping our rental listings...
7/18/11
Stephanie Konow and Katie Bommarito are former rental services agents who grew frustrated with that business and set out to connect Chicago tenants directly...
7/7/11
The following anonymous e-mail was received earlier in the day: If you want a REAL interesting story that (to my knowledge) has not been...
7/6/11
Don’t let the bedbugs bite, says the ProtectABed.com billboard at Roosevelt Rd and Clinton St. When YoChicago talks about bedbugs we’re generally referring to...
6/27/11
Six-figure earning potential. No experience required. Great support, training, technology and career-oriented services available from a leading company. Etc. Etc. Etc. That’s the sort...
5/27/11
The following is an excerpt from an e-mail exchange forwarded to me last night. I’ve removed identifying information: Ok, it will show up as...
5/19/11
Today’s e-mail brings the following news release from RentJuice : RentJuice, the online platform developed by real estate insiders that connects prospective renters, brokers...
5/18/11
Every so often we’ll spotlight one of the apartment rental “services” – we call them bedbugs – on our apartment finder do-not-call list. Our...
4/28/11
It’s bedbug vs bedbug out there in apartment rental service reviews. Most of the rental services (bedbugs) limit themselves to back-of-the-hand slurs of their...
4/20/11
As a rough guesstimate, the rental services we call bedbugs are adding more than 10,000 apartment ads a day – many of them bait-and-switch...
4/19/11
We’ve just published the first draft of our Lincoln Park apartments at-a-glance list. The list – a work in progress – contains links to...
4/16/11
View Apartments for rent in Chicago’s Gold Coast, Near North, River North, Old Town, Streeterville in a larger map We’ve had a number of...