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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…
Protect your home in Winter
There are many homeowners who like to travel away from the cold season at home, leaving their home in Winter to find warmer climates. If you are such a snowbird as they are known in some countries you should find…
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…
Home Roofing Tornado Top Tips
As any homeowner will know their home roofing is a vital protection against wind, rain and any inhospitable storms, including extreme weather events like tornadoes. The condition of the house roof is as important as the state of the rest…
Landscape design for your home
For many Homeowners there are many ways to make a property more like our home. For example, by using good landscape design we can personalise our space As a result, we make it comfortable a place to relax and feel…
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,…