12/14/15
In Illinois, you’ll need 300 hours of classroom training and practical experience before you can become licensed to braid hair. If you want to...
4/7/15
It’s that time of year again. Chicago’s rental services are advertising heavily at Craigslist, touting six-figure incomes, unlimited earnings potential, the start of a...
3/31/15
A tipster alerted me this morning that an individual with a lengthy criminal record is applying, using an alias, to work as a leasing...
2/17/15
If you were lured into working at a Chicago rental service last year by the promise of a “lucrative career” and “steady earnings” the...
2/6/14
Last year 100s of people signed on with one of Chicago’s rental services to begin what they were led to believe might be a...
1/8/14
It’s that time of year, kiddies. Chicago’s apartment rental services a/k/a finders a/k/a locators are once again beginning to blitz Craigslist with ads touting...
7/8/13
When a real estate company breaks the law in its help-wanted advertising, there’s likely to be nothing but trouble and sorrow ahead for anyone...
4/25/13
Rent Here Realty’s Chardonnee Cunningham has five glowing reviews at Yelp, the most recent from two weeks ago. The earliest of the remaining four,...
2/26/13
Head over to the real estate jobs section of Craigslist and you’ll see repeated variations on that headline. Read the ads, and learn the...
2/22/13
The Craigslist recruiting ad pictured above prompted me to take a closer look at New Market Realty’s website. Who, after all, wouldn’t want to...
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...
2/7/13
Almost all of Chicago’s rental services are revolving-door operations that attract naïve newcomers with the promise of entry into a lucrative career. A high...
1/16/13
It’s that time of the year. You’re seeing the ads on Craigslist. Chicago rental services are starting to staff up for the upcoming rental...