Setting The Null Value To The Properties Of A Class

is there any trick (because I can't think of anything else ! ) to massively set all of the properties , of a user defined class , to their null values ? You see , I have a class called Apartment and it has a lot of properties (it only has properties , no methods or events , if that's important) and those properties are either strings , doubles or integers . I want each time I create a new instance of that class (a new apartment , that is) to automatically set those properties to their null values . That is all of the strings to be equal to "" and all of the numbers to be equal to 0 . Back in VB6 I could rely on VB6 to do this automatically , but now in VB .NET , whenever I create a new instance of a class , all the properties start with the value = Nothing . I know I can define every property in the class module like that : Public MyVariable As String = "" but I'd like to keep them as they are and set their null values directly whenever a new object of that class is created .