Editorial Policy

The promise behind the site

Everything published on jagoanproperti.com takes the same route from idea to page. This document explains that route so you can judge our work fairly.

How we date articles

The date on an article is the date it was published. When a change alters the advice, we update the modified date and say what changed. Cosmetic edits do not reset the date, because pretending a page is fresher than it is helps nobody.

From notes to published page

1. Draft from experience, not from a page of search results.
2. Underline every claim that rests on memory rather than a source.
3. Support it or lose it. Each underline is backed by something we can name, or it comes out.
4. A cold read by a second person catches the confident guesses the writer stopped seeing.

Things you will not find here

• Guarantees. Nobody in this field can honestly offer one.
• Filler written to occupy a topic rather than to answer it.
• Anything we would be embarrassed to defend in person.

How the site earns

A minority of outbound links are commercial. None of them have ever changed a sentence that was written before the link existed.

We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.

What earns a page

A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.

The names on the work

We attach a person to every article on purpose. It means a mistake costs the writer something, which is the strongest quality control a site this size has.

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.

Corrections

Send the page and the problem to info@jagoanproperti.com. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.