4/4/22
The Lakeview East neighborhood is the first choice for many first-time renters. Its pedestrian-friendly streets host a ton of one-of-a-kind bars, restaurants, theaters and...
6/15/12
If you were searching for a River North 2-bedroom with an indoor pool you might start by filtering Craigslist on 2+ BR apartments and...
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...
12/7/11
You’re all probably highly aware of this phenomenon by now, but a reminder never hurts. When you’re looking at reviews of apartment rental services...
9/30/11
We’ve previously wondered about Exchange Apartment Finders (EAF), which appeared to be doing business as a real estate broker / apartment finder without the...
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....
8/8/11
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...
3/27/11
Chicago’s apartment rental services / locators / finders (bedbugs) work diligently to make you believe that finding an apartment in Chicago is a daunting...
3/12/11
Between midnight yesterday and 8:42 this morning, an apartment rental bedbug by the name of Ginger Summers placed 962 housing for rent ads on...
1/24/11
At YoChicago we refer to apartment rental services, also known as locators and finders, as bedbugs. It’s our shorthand way of informing you that...
7/21/10
According to a Draper and Kramer representative there is currently only one studio apartment available at 1350 North Lake Shore, and the rent is...
7/2/10
First I hear of bedbugs shuttering a Hollister store in SoHo, and then I find maggots in the Chicago Multiple Listing Service. Not a...
6/28/10
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for South Loop apartments, most of them touting the fewer than a dozen major apartment complexes in...