Editorial policy

What we publish

AlaskaLoan publishes educational guides, comparison pages, and calculators about loans for Alaskans. We do not publish individualized financial advice. Nothing on this site is a recommendation to take a specific loan, from a specific lender, at a specific time — it's context to help you evaluate your own situation, ideally alongside a qualified professional.

Research and sourcing

• Articles are researched against primary sources: the agencies and institutions that run the programs we describe (AHFC, VA, SBA, CFPB, Alaska state agencies, borough assessors).
• Primary sources are cited at the end of every article.
• We avoid repeating claims from other publishers without checking them against a primary source.
• Where a program detail changes frequently (rates, income caps, fee schedules), we describe the mechanics and point you to the current official page rather than freezing a number that will go stale.

Review cadence

• Every article shows its author and a last-reviewed date.
• Rate-sensitive content (mortgage content, comparison pages, calculator data) is reviewed quarterly.
• The mortgage calculator's borough property-tax table is a versioned data file with per-borough source citations, re-verified against assessor data on the same cadence.

Affiliate independence

Some comparison pages contain affiliate links — marked sponsored nofollow — through which we may earn a commission at no cost to you. Editorial decisions are made before, and independently of, monetization:

• Rankings and evaluations are never sold or influenced by commission rates.
• Categories and evaluation criteria are chosen editorially; affiliate availability doesn't change what we cover.
• We never publish payday-loan offers regardless of what they pay.

Full details: how we make money.

Corrections

If we got something wrong, we want to fix it. Email hello@alaskaloan.com — corrections are made in place, and material corrections are noted on the page.