Editorial Policy

What this document is

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.

Publication dates

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.

How a draft is built

• Dump first. Everything the writer believes goes down, unsorted.
• Mark the soft parts. Anything held on memory rather than evidence gets flagged.
• Check or cut. A flagged claim is either supported or removed. There is no third option.
• Second reader. Somebody else hunts for sentences that sound more certain than the evidence allows.

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.

Where money enters

We earn from some outbound links. That pays for hosting and research time, and it does not decide the verdict of any page.

Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.

How we choose what to write

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.

Bylines

Bylines are real people with real archives attached. If you disagree with a piece, you can see what else the same person has written and judge accordingly.

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.