Proving Your (Dog Tenant) Suitability For Chicago Condos

It’s just not fair! I’m sure you heard that from other dog owners or maybe you’ve said it yourself when you’ve been trying to find an apartment or condo that allows dogs. You know that your Fido is perfect, but how do you convince a prospective landlord or building management company that you and your [...] Read more »

Assessing Dogs as Chicago Condo Neighbors

In his Poem, Mending Fences, Robert Frost says. “Good fences make good neighbors”, but in Chicago condo buildings we need a more practical way for a landlord or management company to predict what kind of neighbor a prospective tenant will be, especially when that person has a dog or two in his family! There are [...] Read more »

Chicago Real Estate Going To The Dogs!!!

As reported by Leslie Mann in a recent Tribune article http://tiny.cc/07ml1 many Chicago Buildings are going out of their way to put “friendly” into pet-friendly living. Most estimates have the percentage of pet households in the United States at 60%+, that equals a lot of people and a lot of pets. As a country, we [...] Read more »

Welcome To Dog-Friendly Chicago

by Fran Berry Chicago is known by many names: The Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, and the Second City, but did you know that Chicago is fast becoming the Dog-Friendly City too? Even the city’s auto sticker for 2009-2010 has a Yellow Labrador Retriever carrying the city flag in his mouth! Walk up [...] Read more »