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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.
Top Tips – A Homeowner’s Brief for a Pet-Sitter
Top Tips: From HouseSit Match homeowner Sarah on briefing a pet-sitter… Housesitting is a serious business. And when pets are involved the brief for the house-sitter becomes a vital part of the whole exercise. When choosing a house or pet…
House-Sits Offer Free Accommodation and…
The great thing about House-sits is they offer Free Accommodation… …and a fresh perspective. Yes, it really is true! If you offer to house-sit for someone the house-sitting opportunity offers you free accommodation for the time that you are caring for…
House-Sitting Helps to Fund Our Global Travel
Global travel made possible by house-sitting – from Sydney Australia to London England Chris and I met in Victoria, British Columbia on the west coast of Canada in February 2012. He was on a three-month vacation and had just returned to B.C.…
House-Sitting Australia – Travel Top Ten Tips
Travel Tips for house-sitting Australia If you’re not an Ozzie and you’re headed to Australia on your career break, you’re not alone! It’s one of the most popular destinations to travel to – partly due to it being easy to…
Amy’s Pet-Sitting Blog
A Pet-sitting blog, and a new profession for Amy ex-advertising exec A year ago, almost to the day, I lost my job in Advertising. Don’t feel bad for me; it was a blessing. In actual fact, it was the second…
Professional Couple Swap Commute for House-sit
PROFESSIONAL COUPLE SWAP LONG COMMUTE FOR HOUSE-SITTING IN LONDON Alick and Sarah – A house-sit for homeowners turned Trusty House-Sitters Why a house-sit? About four years ago Alick an architect and Sarah a designer decided to move out of their one…
Match in 24-hours Solves Pet-Sitter Emergency
Student solves professional couple’s pet-sitter emergency Here’s the meet and greet photo Story Meet Kate and Tom, they just moved to the area and needed a new house-sitter in a hurry, they were let down by a new contact and…
The HouseSit Match Network is Growing – Jump On Board!
ix months on from our launch HouseSit Match is thrilled that our network is growing steadily: we have over 600 likes on Facebook, on average 20 properties and more than 100 sitters with about 60 showing and available at any…
Long-term travel, made affordable
Ideas for long term travel, and what to do to make it affordable… Long term travel gives opportunities to learn, explore, and broaden horizons. Here Rachel Morgan Trimmer Founder of the Career Break Site offers ideas on making long term…