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Home Maintenance How to Fix Hidden Problems
The home maintenance you undertake as a homeowner while you live in a house can influence not only its resale value but also how relaxed you are when you go away. There are some key areas to address. It is…
Travel Hacks: See The World for 70% Less Than Staying at Home
We love to share the great travel tips we hear in our housesitting community. In this blog we share some extraordinary travel hacks from long term international travellers and housesitters Nat n Jodie. Travel Hacks for Affordable Long Term Travel…
Preparing for housesitters – Top Tips
If you have invited housesitters into your home then do make an effort to try to get to know them first. Sometime you can meet them and sometimes you have virtual meetings. Either way it is good to be prepared…
International Housesitting and Tourist Visas: A Complete Guide
Housesitters often ask us about the need for housesitting visas or tourist visas when committing to international housesit assignments. We explain that there are no such things as ‘housesitting visas’. Instead we say they must always check with their destination…
Housesitting Family – HouseSitChat Interview
Housesitting offers a range of fantastic opportunities for affordable travel and living like a local while you care for pets and property of your hosts. One housesitting family we’ve been following carefully for the five years they have been on…
International Housesitting and Tourist Visas – By Gobsmacked at Gatwick (Prt 1)
We are often asked about international housesitting and the need for tourist visas as a housesitting network offering international housesits. As members will know we have always offered appropriate links to the latest in country visa requirements via our member…
International housesitters NatnJodie talk pets and bucketlists
International housesitters NatnJodie have been travelling around the world by housesitting and petsitting since 2013. In a recent interview hosted on our weekly @Housesitmatch Twitter #HouseSitChat session, we asked them a series of questions about their love of petsitting, how…
Happy Housesits in Europe with Michelle and Eddie
Now some of you might find the notion of housesitting a little unusual, having a stranger in your home to look after your property and pets your most precious possessions. However, Michelle the housesitter can go one better than that,…
Housesitting Conference Photo Diary 21-22 September 2019
The first ever housesitting conference was held on 21-22 September 2019 in Swindon UK. The conference was founded and hosted by Vanessa Anderson (Housesitting Magazine) and Ian Usher ( A life Unlimited). HouseSitMatch were honoured to be sponsors of this…