Tag: Rental services
How to find a discount-fee rental broker
If you've been in the market to buy or sell a home at any time in the past dozen years you've become familiar with the concept of discount-fee rea [...]
Apartments in Buena Park, Ravenswood, Sheridan Park or just Uptown?
Buena Park, just north of Lake View and west of Lincoln Park, is one of the more desirable parts of the Uptown community, so it's natural that an [...]
How Chicago’s rental services play rushin’ roulette
Rushin' roulette may be as deadly to your finances as Russian roulette is to your health.
Rushin' roulette is a nasty game played by Chicago's [...]
An updated look at South Loop apartment rents
Renters appear to have a wider selection of available apartments in the South Loop than they did a month ago.
If you're looking to rent in the [...]
Are River North rents drifting downward?
Removal of the large billboard that had been on the site is the first visible sign of progress on a new 33-story, 290-unit apartment tower slated [...]
Working with these agents is like eating flies
A tipster forwarded me the latest mugshot of Jerome Bressert, a rental services agent who was recently arrested in DuPage County on a domestic bat [...]
Where are the renters’ gift cards?
"Where are the customers' yachts," a visitor to a New York harbor famously asked, after seeing yachts owned by bankers and brokers.
Two days ago we [...]
500 Lake Shore Drive aggressively courting rental services
Rental service agents have been receiving daily email solicitations from the recently-opened 500 Lake Shore Drive apartments during what the building [...]
Find your next River North apartment here
Apartment rents at Chicago's downtown high-rises are frequently updated by programs similar to those used by airline reservation systems. We take [...]
The easy way to find your next South Loop apartment
If you're planning to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability li [...]
What Chicago’s rental services won’t tell you
We strongly recommend that Chicago renters take the time to find their next apartment on their own without using one of Chicago's rental services [...]
An up-to-date River North apartment list
Apartment rents at Chicago's downtown high-rises are repriced frequently by programs similar to those used by airline reservation systems. We take [...]
Updated rents for South Loop apartments
If you're planning to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability li [...]
Have SoNo East two-bedrooms become hard to rent?
Apartment buildings that cooperate with rental services (not all of them do) typically pay a month's rent as a commission for bringing in a renter [...]
Your weekly River North apartment list
Computer programs similar to the ones used by airline reservation systems re-price apartment rents frequently at Chicago's downtown high-rises. We [...]
See what’s for rent in the tight South Loop market
The already tight South Loop apartment market appears to have fewer vacancies this week than last.
If you're looking to rent in the South Loop [...]
Your at-a-glance River North apartment list
Computer programs similar to those used by airline reservation systems re-price apartment rents frequently at Chicago's downtown high-rises. We ta [...]
See what’s for rent in the South Loop
The South Loop apartment market continues to be tight, with most buildings having only a few vacancies.
If you're looking to rent in the South [...]
Where rental rookies rate rave reviews
Have you ever wondered about the fact that complete novices at Chicago rental services almost always receive rave reviews on Yelp?
I think it' [...]
Leasing agents wanted, naïve suckers preferred
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 who [...]