About
What Jagoan Properti is for, who writes it, how claims are checked, and where to write when we get something wrong.
Jagoan Properti is a blog, and the line under the logo, Straight answers before you sign, is the whole editorial brief. New articles go up when they are ready, and everything we have published stays available in the blog archive.
This site grew out of a spreadsheet. Derek Wallace had been tracking real estate for years, mostly to stop repeating the same mistakes, and it turned out other people wanted the same answers.
People ask about the name. There is rarely a good story behind a domain, and there is not one here either. Jagoan Properti was available, it was short enough to say out loud, and it has been the name long enough now that changing it would be more confusing than keeping it.
We are not the right place for advice tailored to your exact situation. Jagoan Properti publishes general guidance, and the difference matters more than it sounds.
Hosting and research come out of the same pocket that buys the things we write about. That keeps the running costs honest and the pace slow.
Nothing here is written from a search results page. If we have not handled it ourselves or spoken to somebody who has, we leave the topic alone until we have.
We buy what we write about. It is slower, it is more expensive, and it is the only arrangement that lets us say a thing was not worth it.
The full process, including corrections and commercial links, is set out on the editorial policy page.
One article, one topic. It keeps the category pages usable, and in practice home buying, renting and selling a home are where most readers end up.
There is no house byline here. Each piece is signed, and each signature leads to everything else that person has put their name to.
Derek Wallace, Buyer's agent and financing writer. Derek spent six years underwriting mortgages before moving to buyer representation, and he still reads a pre-approval letter the way an underwriter would. He writes about financing and the offer process with the paperwork open beside him.
Naomi Prescott, Selling and staging writer. Naomi staged homes for a title company before writing about pricing and offers full time. She has sat through enough closings to know which staging choices actually change a buyer's number and which ones just look good in photos.
Victor Amaro, Investing and rentals writer. Victor manages a small portfolio of rental units himself, which means his cap rate math has to survive contact with an actual tenant. He writes about landlording and property investing from the spreadsheet outward, not the other way around.
Tell us which line is wrong and why, at info@jagoanproperti.com or through the contact page. Small errors are corrected the same week. Anything that changes the advice gets a dated note at the bottom of the article.
