This page explains how PropertyLiftUp decides what to publish, how we research it, how we handle mistakes, and where our money comes from. We put it in writing so that readers can hold us to it.
Last updated: 10 September 2026
Who We Are
PropertyLiftUp is an independent editorial publication about homes and property, written for readers in the United States. It is written and edited by Abaid Ullah.
We are not a real estate agency, a brokerage, or a listing service. We do not earn a commission on any property transaction. Nobody outside this publication decides what appears on it.
How We Choose What to Cover
We start from questions rather than keywords.
Most articles begin because a question keeps coming up and the existing answers online are thin, contradictory, or written to sell something. A homeowner cannot find out what a repair should actually cost. A first-time buyer cannot work out what happens between an accepted offer and the keys. A reader wants to know what a well-known property is really worth and finds five different numbers.
We also cover subjects because they are interesting rather than practical. Architecture, unusual houses, and the high end of the market are worth studying on their own terms, and often teach something that applies further down the market.
What we do not do is publish an article simply because a term has search volume. If we cannot add anything to a subject, we leave it alone.
How We Research
Every factual claim should be traceable to something.
For cost and market figures, we use industry data, government sources, and manufacturer or retailer pricing, and we say which one. For legal and regulatory subjects, we work from the text of the rules themselves rather than from summaries of summaries. For products, we use manufacturer specifications and published testing.
When we write about a specific property or a named person, the standard is higher. We use public records, court filings, official statements, and reporting from established outlets. We link to those sources so a reader can check them.
Where something is widely repeated but not actually confirmed, we say so on the page. A rumor that has been printed a thousand times is still a rumor, and readers deserve to know which is which.
How Our Articles Are Produced
Our process is research-led. An article begins with source gathering, moves through drafting and structuring, and ends with a human review pass in which claims are checked against sources, figures are verified, and anything unsupported is cut.
We use modern writing and research tools, including AI assistance, at the drafting stage. We are open about this because we think readers should know. What matters is not which tools produced a sentence but whether the sentence is true, useful, and checked. No article is published without a human editor reading it in full and taking responsibility for it.
We do not publish text that claims personal experience we have not had. If an article says we tested something, we tested it. If it does not say that, we did not.
Corrections
We get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we fix them rather than quietly deleting the page.
If you spot an error, write to admin@propertyliftup.com with the page address and the specific claim. We check the report against the original source. If it is confirmed, we correct the article and add a short note at the foot of the page showing what changed and when.
For small fixes such as a typo or a broken link, we correct without a note. For anything that changes the meaning of a claim, the note stays permanently. Removing evidence of a mistake is worse than the mistake.
Updating Older Articles
Property information goes stale quickly. Costs move, building codes change, mortgage rates shift, and products are discontinued. Someone reading a 2025 cost guide in 2027 deserves to know whether the numbers still hold.
We review our most-read articles regularly and update the figures, the sources, and the advice. When an article is substantially updated, the date on the page reflects it. When a subject has changed so much that an update would not be honest, we retire the article rather than patch it.
Money, Advertising, and Independence
This is the part most publications keep vague, so we will be direct.
We label sponsored content. If a company has paid for an article to exist, that article says so at the top. It is not dressed up as ordinary editorial.
Affiliate links are disclosed. Where we link to a product and would earn a commission on a purchase, the page says so. A commission never determines which product we recommend or how we rate it.
We do not sell links inside editorial articles. Requests to insert a paid link into an existing guide are declined.
We do not accept payment for a positive review. A company can pay for visibility. It cannot pay for a verdict.
Advertisers have no say in editorial. No advertiser sees an article before publication, and no advertiser can have an article changed or removed.
Comments
Comments are open on most articles because readers frequently know things we do not. We moderate them.
We remove comments that are spam, that exist only to place a link, that contain personal abuse, or that publish someone’s private information. We do not remove comments simply because they disagree with us or point out that we made a mistake. Those are the useful ones.
Privacy and People
Our celebrity homes and luxury real estate coverage involves real people. We hold ourselves to three rules there.
We do not publish exact home addresses. We do not publish information that is not already in the public record. And we do not speculate about a person’s private life; the subject is the property, the price, and the design, not the person’s relationships or finances beyond what the transaction itself shows.
If you are connected to a property we have covered and believe something is wrong or intrusive, write to us with Privacy in the subject line and we will review it within two business days.
What We Do Not Do
We do not give advice about your specific situation. We are not lawyers, accountants, licensed agents, engineers, or contractors, and nothing on this site is a substitute for one.
Our articles explain how things generally work. Your house, your state, your contract, and your finances are particular, and only a qualified professional who can see the details should advise you on them. Our Disclaimer sets this out in full.
Questions About This Policy
If anything here is unclear, or if you think we have failed to live up to it, write to admin@propertyliftup.com. A policy nobody can question is not much of a policy.