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Mastering the Long Term Housesit 10 Tips
Ever thought about taking a long term housesit in a place like rural France? Discover what Joann, a retired professional and now housesitter, learned during her extended stay in the Gers region of South West France. From adapting to life…
How to Become a Full Time Housesitter – 21 Tips
Have you ever wanted to become a full time housesitter? YOU may have dabbled in caring for pets for friends or relatives, or even tried holiday housesitting for friends and family before. But housesitting and petsitting full time takes a…
Back to Back Housesitting: Top Guide
Often at HouseSit Match we hear from housesitters who do ‘back to back housesitting’. It’s their lifestyle choice to move from housesit to housesit with seldom a break. They might be living a full time house sitting lifestyle for various…
London Housesitter Tips: Best Public Toilets
As a housesitter you may visit London and you should prepare by reading these London housesitter tips. It is important to be prepared especially as a tourist in a new city. Written by a 20-year housesitting veteran who’s walked every…
The House Sitting Life & a Great Camino #2
A surprising number of house sitters travel full time by housesitting. And they adopt a house sitting life for various reasons. In this article one of our seasoned housesitters Tiera St Claire tells us about walking her second Camino Santiago…
A Housesitter’s Europe: 10 Top Bridges
Every housesitter‘s Europe presents a different and unique perspective. Tiera St Claire offers us her own view of Europe from the point of view of the Bridges she has see and enjoyed while housesitting all over Europe. Read on to…
Unexpected Encounters While House Sitting
Our housesitters often share some of their encounters while house sitting, and we love how their diverse professional backgrounds impact the stories they share and how they tell the stories. In this article, Kelly Hayes-Raitt a retired journalist, and one…
First Camino: Pilgrim Discovers Housesitting
Tiera St Claire one of our regular housesitters under took her first Camino de Santiago pilgrimage some 20 years ago. And through her first Camino adventure she discovered housesitting, and hasn’t looked back from what is now a lifestyle and…
Dual Success Housesitting Blueprint Top Tip
Since starting HouseSit Match over 10 years ago I’ve had time to develop a duel success housesitting blueprint, not without trial and error as you can imagine. It’s helped that I still housesit myself and have housesitters in my own…