Tag: Rental services
Vesta Preferred offers misleading advice to renters
Greg Pekarsky, in a blog post (screen cap) at Vesta Preferred, serves up some of the silliest advice imaginable for renters interested in learning [...]
What’s really for rent in River North
If you want to rent an apartment in River North, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's River North availabilit [...]
River North’s EnV bars rental services from advertising apartments
Earlier this month EnV, a luxury apartment high-rise in River North, sent out an email, with a broker agreement attached, informing rental service [...]
See what’s really for rent in the South Loop
The biggest news in the South Loop apartment market – although it will have little impact on renters – is that ST Residential has put The Lex, a 3 [...]
A closer look at an iMove Chicago broker
iMove Chicago is one of the companies on the dirtiest dozen apartment finders list we're publishing as part of our Craigslist Apartment Cleanup ca [...]
A work-from-home scheme for unlicensed rental agents
Consider the Craigslist recruiting ad recently posted by T-Rock Enterprises a/k/a Chicago Apartment Renters. The Craigslist ad doesn't include, as req [...]
Chicago’s dirtiest dozen apartment rental services – iMove Chicago is #3
There are scores of rental services on YoChicago's do-not-call list. We're singling out twelve of them – the ones we consider the dirtiest dozen – [...]
An up-to-date at-a-glance River North apartment list
We've been publishing an up-to-date at-a-glance South Loop apartment price and availability list for several months. With this post we're expandin [...]
Chicago rental services are living in cloud-cuckoo-land
The Illinois Real Estate License Act makes it illegal for a licensed rental service to advertise property for rent without written authorization f [...]
Another low in rental service ugliness
We've previously called attention to the fact that Chicago's rental services trash each other as much as they trash renters and landlords.
Thi [...]
An at-a-glance list of what’s actually for rent in the South Loop
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 of buildi [...]
It’s the wrong the time of year to become a leasing agent
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 season, [...]
iMove Chicago asks whether you’re tired of broken promises?
If you've been scanning real estate jobs at Craigslist you've probably seen the above ad for a rental service that currently goes by the name of i [...]
Another major Chicago landlord joins the Craigslist Apartment Cleanup
Some of Chicago's rental services, also known as apartment locators and apartment finders, have been known to lie to renters about Chicago propert [...]
Urban Lux – the dumbest Yelp reviews ever?
Reading positive reviews of rental services on Yelp invariably reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said of a Dickens' short story. "One must have a hea [...]
An at-a-glance list of current South Loop apartment rents
The most noticeable trend this past week was a modest upward drift in South Loop rents almost across the board, tracking a slight downtick in the [...]
Urban Lux – long on ads, short on facts
We recently selected Urban Lux as the second entry on our roster of Craigslist's dirtiest dozen advertisers.
As of early yesterday evening a se [...]
A Craigslist Apartment Cleanup success story
Our Craigslist Apartment Cleanup has both short-term and long-term goals. In the near term we're focusing on a somewhat arbitrarily-selected "dirt [...]
Chicago’s dirtiest dozen rental services – Urban Lux is #2
You'll find scores of rental services on YoChicago's do-not-call list. We're singling out twelve of them – the ones we consider the dirtiest dozen [...]
How Chicago rental services can help clean up Craigslist
As you might expect, I pick up the phone and talk to Chicago rental services. They almost all describe themselves as "one of the good guys" who ab [...]