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Mom’s Top Tips for Finding a Good Pet HouseSitter
Whether you are planning a trip away from home or a moving to a new home you may need to find someone to look after your pets during that period of change. The person in the family in our experience…

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…

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…

Top Tips for House-Sitting in Paris
An opportunity came up for house-sitting in Paris, so I dug up one of my favourite books. I have in front of me a a curling paperback edition of an old Paris guidebook, and even though it is pretty old…

Now we are ‘HouseSitMatch house-sitting’
If you have considered trying housesitting either as a housesitter or a homeowner try HouseSitMatch house-sitting. You wont regret it! We check everyone for safety, we can help you to optimise your profile and sometimes, if you ask nicely we…

House Sitting Guide for Sitters and Owners | Tips for a Smooth Sit
An experienced sitter gives his House-sitting Guide Cardinal rules for the best experience. Learn from his experience of full time houses-sitting.
New meta description - A practical house sitting guide with clear tips for sitters and homeowners. Learn the core rules, how to avoid problems and how to build trust from day one.

Our pets chose us and our unusual cave home in Spain
Most pet owners choose their pets either as young vulnerable animals needing a home or rescue animals. In this case our pet owners describe to us how they were chosen by their pets when they moved into their unusual cave…

Sam and Pete’s Long Term House Sitters
Need long term house sitters and petsitters because you are travelling away from home or because you are volunteering abroad? Why not find registered and trustworthy house and pet-sitters to live in your home? They can housesit care for your…

Oxfordshire Housesit: A First-Hand Account
Dianne and Mike decided to travel the world one housesit at a time. An Oxfordshire housesit was their very first experience. As new home and pet owners themselves they felt fairly well prepare for the first of their house sitting…

