Tag: Tips
A blizzard of apartment lies on Craigslist
Chicagoland Property Group is a charter member of YoChicago's rental service do-not-call list.
A Craigslist search late yesterday surfaced more [...]
Rental service pirates invading the suburbs
A tipster alerted me to a development that's worrisome to suburban landlords, and ought to concern tenants also.
City-based rental services have b [...]
Another rental service trawls for suckers
We've posted repeatedly about the perils of filling out an online rental application. Supplying your Social Security Number and other personal informa [...]
YoChicago’s most popular rental neighborhoods
Where do Chicagoans want to rent? Perhaps the best answer to that question comes via Google Analytics, which taps a database of intentions populat [...]
Urban Lux irresponsibly solicits suckers
Are you naïve enough about the realities of identity theft to send your Social Security and Driver's License numbers, and other personal informati [...]
De-clutter your apartment for a good cause
Chicago's real estate community has a long history of involvement in an endless whirl of charitable activities, both at the corporate and individu [...]
domu wants you to be the renter from hell
Each and every one of domu's "10 must-dos for renters" is a reasonably sensible bit of advice, and the list is supplemented by the caution that "t [...]
Brook Furniture Rental brings a vacant condo to life
Trying to sell an empty home can be risky. Not every prospective buyer can imagine the full potential of a home without the benefit of strategical [...]
Craigslist is an apartment liars’ list
As of 9:30 last night, 17,511 ads had been posted yesterday in the Chicago > housing > apts/housing for rent section of Craigslist, almost all of [...]
It’s high-rise spider time
A hat tip to the Huffington Post for a reminder that it's the time of the year when high-rise residents are advised to close their windows "to avo [...]
More landlords eliminating use of rental services
It's anecdotal data only, but what I've been hearing during the past month is that a number of major landlords have been reducing or completely el [...]
Never send a nickel to a Craigslist poster
Craigslist posters often scrape photos from Realtor listings and use them to enhance the credibility of fraudulent offers. The most common form of [...]
When real estate agents don’t know where they are
Over many years I've continued to be stunned by how little real estate agents are about the locations of the homes they're selling or assisting bu [...]
Chicago rental service offers golden shower
What's there to be said about this Craigslist ad from My Place Apartments, other than that it's an almost perfect metaphor for what you can expect fro [...]
Classic contemporary furnishings at Room & Board
My son and I shopped at Room & Board in Skokie nearly 6 years ago when he was setting up his new home in Antioch, but I hadn't been there since.
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How to find an experienced, professional rental agent
Our recently-launched YoRents service connects renters directly with quality landlords.
Many renters, however, are daunted by the task of findi [...]
domu offers excellent info for landlords, basement-dwelling hermits
I'm not a fan of domu's rental search, despite its slick map-based interface and ease of use. I'd rather take a slower path to accurate, up-to-date in [...]
Apartment Savvy targets the dumbest renters on the planet
Apartment Savvy, one of the rental services on our do-not-call list, has been reviewed 85 times at the Google Places page for its 2835 N Clark St [...]
Reilly Reports a good read, Reilly ego notwithstanding
We have, on occasion, called attention to what we perceived as arrogant behavior on the part of 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly, and linked to o [...]
Quote of the day – a prestige name trumps a good school
Development names matter, according to syndicated columnist Lew Sichelman:
Home buyers pay an average of 4.2% more when the development has the [...]