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Welcome to the HouseSit Match Blog
Our blogs are stories shared by our housesitting team, and members who have benefited from the affordable travel, home and pet care made possible through our membership network. We hope you enjoy the blogs. Please take a moment to leave your feedback.
Early Bird Catches the House-Sit!
It’s that time of year again. The evenings have begun to get a little lighter, and it’s occasionally possible to venture outside without being wrapped up head to toe in layers of thermals. As the spring sunshine peeps through the…
Pet Lover SonnyB Needs Pet-Sitters in Turkey
Home-owner in Turkey seeks Pet-sitters who love Living Like Locals Have you ever been on holiday somewhere where the scenery simply took your breath away, the holiday atmosphere was authentic, fun and relaxing? So much so in fact that you…
Who’s Pet-sitting Piaf’s cats? Meet the cats and their sitter
Fancy pet-sitting for Ellie and Peace? Ellie and Peace are the pet cats of a modern day Piaf, performer Laurene Hope. Recently back on the road with her new show “Piaf – Love Conquers All” Laurene delivered a remarkable performance…
Portable Careers & House-Sitting Webinar
Portable Careers & House-Sitting: How To Work While You Travel On Thursday 31st July we hosted our second webinar in the HSM Webinar series this time on the topic of Portable Careers and House-Sitting. Thomas Mason chaired the webinar. Together…
TOP TIPS – Building the Homeowner & House-Sitter Relationship
Never underestimate the importance of building a relationship as early as possible between house-sitter and homeowner, even before you speak to each other. One of the things you learn when you are house-sitting or pet-sitting, or indeed seeking and recruiting…
House-Sitting Webinar & Expert Panel
House-sitting webinar HouseSit March the house-sitting network aims to offer an easy to use matching service and expert advice to professionalise the business of house-sitting. One of the new initiatives started by the founder is a series of online talks…
Top Tips – house-Sitting tips for comfort
House-sitting tips Whether you like to house-sit close to home or use house-sitting as a way to experience life and new cultures in different countries most people would agree there is always at least one item or two that you…
Meet traveling house-sitters ‘ExploraMum’ & ‘ExploraSon’
Meet Ruth Johnston and her son Louis, traveling house-sitters for HouseSit Match On a regular basis at HouseSit Match we come across some fabulous people, and naturally we love to hear and share their stories via our blog. Ruth Johnston…
Dog-Sitting in the Hughenden Valley
Dog-sitting student finds creative ways to save s a student I am always interested in finding new and unusual things to do and dog-sitting is a great way to earn and save money for uni next year. I liked the…