4/4/14
Property owners pay commissions to rental services for bringing them prospects. If a major property owner has difficulty getting a rental service to honor...
11/11/13
Misleading renters is the core competency of Chicago’s rental services a/k/a apartment locators a/k/a apartment finders. It’s about the only thing they do well....
10/30/13
We realize that the title of “Chicago’s sleaziest rental agent” has lots of contenders vying for it. You’ll find 100s of them in the...
3/25/13
A tipster emailed us last week, suggesting that “something smells fishy … over at Chicago Apartment Hunters” (CAH). At its website CAH bills itself...
1/7/13
In your dreams there are – and also at Zillow Rentals, where a query returns 475 single-family homes for rent in ZIP Code 60614....
1/3/13
We can find many things to criticize about Zillow Rentals, and we’ve already focused on one of them – misleading descriptions of who renters...
1/2/13
You’ll find scores of sleazy rental services on YoChicago’s do-not-call list. In the coming weeks we’ll single out twelve of them – the dirtiest...
12/26/12
The headline makes a broad but defensible claim, and one that reflects grossly indefensible behavior on the part of Zillow, Trulia and hotpads. Chicago’s...
10/5/12
The WAV Group recently published a Redfin-sponsored study comparing listing search results at local brokerage websites in 11 major markets with search results on...
10/4/11
What’s a Rent Zestimate? According to Zillow: A Rent Zestimate is Zillow’s estimated monthly rental price, computed using a proprietary formula. It is a...
6/28/11
The Wall Street Journal has a useful interactive map of home price declines – from peak levels – presented on a map by ZIP...
5/9/11
“Home value declines are currently equal to those we experienced during the darkest days of the housing recession. With accelerating declines during the first...
12/6/10
“If it can be known, it will be known; if it can be rated, it will be rated.” – Zillow co-founder Rich Barton, quoted...