12/3/14
Ilene Collins, CEO of Apartment People, replied to a hyper-positive Yelp review by suggesting that the review might be taken down from the site...
7/1/14
A new agent starts at a Chicago rental service and, within a matter of days, is receiving five-star reviews at Yelp from people writing...
4/24/14
Vesta Preferred bills itself in Craigslist recruiting ads as the “Highest rated Real Estate Company on Yelp.” That statement simply isn’t true, as you...
4/21/14
YoChicago has zero tolerance for the comment fraud and review fraud that some inept landlords and rental services seem to find attractive. Our Privacy...
3/31/14
Craigslist doesn’t allow ads to be posted more than once every 48 hours and prohibits keyword spam, i.e. the use of irrelevant terms in...
3/24/14
A little over a year ago we questioned whether Urban Lux, a rental service on our do-not-call list, was responsible for the dumbest-ever reviews...
7/22/13
A year ago in April we wondered whether, based on its uniformly negative Yelp reviews, EnV was Chicago’s worst new apartment tower. We also...
7/15/13
The reviews of The Tides apartment complex pictured above, posted four months apart, are almost word-for-word identical. Did the first reviewer’s experience so perfectly...
7/11/13
Have you ever wondered about the fact that complete novices at Chicago rental services almost always receive rave reviews on Yelp? I think it’s...
2/21/13
The Talk section of Yelp occasionally surfaces a fun and informative discussion of Chicago neighborhoods. Several days ago Yelper Chacha M posted the headline...
2/6/13
Jose L recently posted a 5-star Yelp review of iMove Chicago in which he used the C word – twice – to describe a...
2/4/13
We’ve written about iMove Chicago several times, put it on our Craigslist’s Dirtiest Dozen rental services roster, and wondered why any renter or landlord...
1/31/13
The above ad appeared on Craigslist yesterday, and it tells you everything you need to know about why you should never believe a Yelp...
11/13/12
It’s 2009, and Lincoln Park’s Eugenie Terrace apartment tower is reviewed only once at ApartmentRatings.com. The pace quickens and two reviews are posted in...
4/9/12
I’ve recently updated our Near North at-a-glance apartment list and map with several new links to online availability checks, and added links to Yelp...
1/21/12
As Chicago’s rental market strengthens and vacancies decrease, a number of landlords have been cutting back on their use of apartment rental services (also...
1/20/12
Last Saturday we called attention to a pattern of suspicious reviews of Reside Living buildings at Yelp. The first positive review of Reside at...
1/14/12
The first Yelp review of Reside at Belmont Harbor, 426 W Belmont Ave, dated 12/18/11, was written by a first-time Yelper and flagged as...
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...
3/18/11
Last Saturday we suggested that an apartment locator (a/k/a bedbug) by the name of Ginger Summers quit spamming Craigslist with thousands of repetitive ads....