ABOUT
The Tenure Editorial Desk
Tenure is built and maintained by a small editorial team with backgrounds in quantitative finance, real-estate market analysis, and plain-language explanation. We use AI tools to accelerate drafting and data ingest. Every page that surfaces a numeric claim or a verdict is reviewed by a human before publication.
Our byline is collective rather than tied to a single named author. We're honest about that — Google's 2024 and 2025 core updates penalized YMYL (your money or your life) sites with weak author signals, and we accept the trade-off: faster execution, broader coverage, no founder face plastered across every article. The compensation is the methodology page, the open-source calculator engine, and the editorial standards documented below. If those signals don't hold up over time we will revisit this choice.
How we work
- Primary sources only. Every numeric claim cites SSA, IRS, Census, Federal Reserve, Tax Foundation, NAIC, or Zillow Research. No Wikipedia citations as primary, no real-estate-blog citations of unsourced statistics.
- Open math. The calculator engine is published as open source so the simulation is auditable. Any bug or methodology disagreement can be filed as an issue.
- Date-stamped pages. Every page shows a "Last reviewed" date. If our data is more than 30 days stale we flag it on the page.
- Conservative defaults. When we have to pick a default in the absence of perfect data, we err toward outputs that under-state the case for whichever direction the marketing pressure runs (mortgage industry pushes for buying; the calculator's defaults push slightly the other way to compensate).
Editorial standards
- We do not give personalized investment, tax, or legal advice. The calculator describes a model.
- We do not recommend specific securities, lenders, or properties. Affiliate relationships with mortgage shopping platforms are disclosed wherever they appear.
- We do not publish boosterism (“now is a great time to buy”) or doomerism (“the housing market is about to crash”) as editorial voice. Both are usually wrong.
- We honor correction requests. If you spot a numeric error or a stale citation, email editor@tenure.house — we'll publish the correction with a date stamp on this page's correction log.
Corrections log
No published corrections to date. This log will be updated whenever a numeric claim is retroactively revised on a published page.
Contact
- Editorial corrections: editor@tenure.house
- Methodology questions: editor@tenure.house
- Press inquiries: editor@tenure.house
- Partnership / business: hello@tenure.house
Last reviewed April 24, 2026.