Front Porch Report
Buying, selling & moving — plainly explained
Front Porch Report
Our writers
Tom DelacroixFounding writer, Home LifeTom writes about the house itself: how it was built, why a Craftsman bungalow's roofline looks the way it does, what the first winter in a new place actually feels like. He studied architectural history before drifting into writing, and he still visits job sites when he can just to watch a house go up. He started Front Porch Report's Home Life coverage because the buying and selling guides rarely stopped to talk about the building itself.
Yusuf OkonkwoStaff writer, MortgagesYusuf worked as a mortgage underwriter for six years before switching to writing about the process from the other side of the desk. He still pulls the actual rate sheets and runs the math himself rather than quoting a headline number, because that's the part he watched trip up the most borrowers. He keeps a running file of lender quotes he's collected from readers to check his own numbers against.
Colleen FitzgeraldStaff writer, Agents & MovingColleen spent years in brokerage marketing before covering real estate from the outside, which means she has sat through agent pitch meetings from both sides of the table. She now spends a lot of her reporting time on the phone with moving companies, comparing quotes line by line the way she used to compare agent marketing plans. She still keeps a spreadsheet of every moving quote she has ever collected for a story.