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16 HouseSitMatch Members Weigh the Pros and Cons of Home Security Cameras While House Sitting
HouseSit Match blog editor Kelly Hayes-Raitt debates the pros and cons of home security cameras when she house sits. Home security is important naturally, however, the use of external and especially internal security cameras can be contentious between sitters and…
Top House Sitter Pastimes – Paint by Numbers Kits
If you love housesitting and always interested in discovering new house sitter pastimes consider painting by numbers. Read our article to discover painting by numbers and why this is a pastime that is highly compatible with house and pet sitting. It…
Try House Sitting – Top 13 Reasons Why
There are many reasons to try house sitting and pet sitting as a way to travel, as a way to save money, as a way to save on rent, as a way to indulge your love of pets and gardening…
Sabbatical housesitting – 7 Top Tips
People come to housesitting at different times of life. Sabbatical housesitting becomes an opportunity many people consider at a mid point or later in their career. Read on to learn more about housesitting while on sabbatical and the sabbatical homes…
House Sitting with My Cat Successfully: 4 Essential Questions Answered
New HouseSitMatch member Deb Sakal shares her experiences house sitting with her cat Molly. While this may seem unusual it is not as hard as it may seem at first. Read on to learn Deb’s top tips for how she…
Need live in house sitters? How to prepare
If you’re a pet owner, or you have a home and garden that needs care and attention while you are away you need live in house sitters. How do you go about finding live in house and petsitters to move…
Why Housesit? How Will I Benefit?
Whatever your reason for asking the question ‘Why housesit’ and even approaching the idea of housesitting read this article. In this piece we offer a large variety of great reasons that our housesitters have given us over the years about…
Housesitters Guide to Water Damage
When housesitting you are responsible for the pets and frequently the property you are sitting. This housesitters guide to water damage will help you to ensure you are equipped and ready to spot the main signs of water related damage…
Emerging from Iceland to Shine as a New house-sitter
Landing the first assignment is the hardest for every New house-sitter. This is how it was for new house sitter Bragi Jonsson. A lover of travel and the sharing economy, Bragi learned about house sitting and was very eager to…