DSTRUTH / EDITORIAL STANDARDS

Editorial standards: the rules we can be held to.

Updated July 2026

What we publish

Educational guides about 1031 exchanges, Delaware Statutory Trusts, and adjacent strategies; sponsor report cards scored on a published rubric; and analyses of offering documents and industry practices. We are a publisher and a referral service — not a broker-dealer, investment adviser, qualified intermediary, or law firm — and nothing here is individualized advice.

Sourcing

Factual claims trace to primary sources: the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury regulations, IRS rulings and publications, offering documents, public filings, and regulatory records. Where a guide describes industry norms (typical fee ranges, common practices), that reflects our review of current offering documents and a decade of direct industry experience — and we present it as a range, not a statistic. Case files in our Horror Stories section are labeled composites: invented names, real mechanics.

The wall

Editorial content and the partner bench are separate. Partners don't preview, approve, or influence guides or grades. Sponsors can't purchase coverage or its tone. Our compensation model is disclosed on its own page, and any page with a commercial relationship behind it says so on that page.

Corrections

When we get a fact wrong, we correct the page, note the correction at the bottom of it, and — if the error was material to a grade — re-score. Tell us what we got wrong through the contact form; being correctable in public is the whole point of publishing standards.

What we won't do

No pay-to-play grades. No selling reader data to lead lists. No "sponsored content" dressed as education. No projections presented as promises. No pretending tax law is simpler than it is — where a topic genuinely requires your own CPA or attorney, the guide says exactly that.

How this site is written

Guides are drafted and researched with the assistance of AI tools and reviewed, verified against primary sources, and edited by humans with a decade in this industry before publishing. Errors are ours either way, and the corrections policy above applies either way.

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