The standard we hold ourselves to
A site is only as good as the process behind it. Here is ours for Selling, renovating and buying a home, written plainly so you can weigh the rest of the site against it.
Standards
Sourcing, checking, bylines, dates and commercial links, set out so you can judge what you read on Ruchin.
A site is only as good as the process behind it. Here is ours for Selling, renovating and buying a home, written plainly so you can weigh the rest of the site against it.
Part of what keeps the lights on is commercial links. The verdict on a page is written first and does not bend to whether a link earns anything.
When a partner leans on us to bury a negative line, we keep the line and the email. The leaning tells readers something the original page could not.
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.
Thaddeus Lorne, Selling and auctions editor. Thaddeus worked as a sales agent for twelve years and called more than three hundred auctions before he moved to writing about them.
Marisol Kemper, Renovation writer. Marisol has renovated three houses with her own hands and money. Two made a profit and one did not, and she writes mostly about the one that did not.
Kenji Nakashima, Games and data writer. Kenji plays city builders and house flipping games and reads housing price data for fun, then writes about where the two meet.
We keep a running list of questions readers send us, plus questions we had ourselves and could not find a straight answer to. A topic gets written when it appears on that list more than once.
Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.
Send the page and the problem to [email protected]. 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.