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Top Tips on Selling an Inherited House
If you are lucky enough to inherit a house from a relative or friend it can often create challenges as well as opportunities. If this makes you a first time homeowner though perhaps not yet ready to move into the…
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…
Top 7 Housesitter Cleaning Tips for Easy Clean Up
Most homeowners and pet owners organise themselves to keep a clean and tidy home, whether they have help of do it themselves. We can always learn more about how to do both the deep cleaning or the easy clean up…
Housesitters and Home Renovations
Home renovations can be either small or epic in scale. Managing those redevelopments can be stressful and can infringe somewhat on your life. One solution is to find housesitters to be present on the property while you are elsewhere, and…
Make Home Energy Efficient – Reduce Bills
Top Tips – How to improve energy efficiency at home and reduce bills With Winter well and truly underway most of us use more heat and energy at home. We may look for ways to make our home energy efficient…
Home Insurance – Things you need to know
Many of our homeowners on HouseSit Match manage their home insurance automatically and almost by remote control, as a way to cover a major asset in their financial portfolio. However, there are many small standard rules to home insurance that…
Midsomer Murder Mystery: Housesit Oxford
We regularly hear lovely housesitting adventure stories of housesitters making friends with their hosts, discovering new locations and being delighted with their housesitting gigs. This story is not unlike that, with a housesitter we’ve known for a while telling us…
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…
Housesitting Accidents: Prevention and Handling
In our platform housesitting accidents are rare. However, the unexpected does happen from time to time. We try to help our homeowners and our housesitters by helping them to get prepared. We provide check lists, and guidelines. These can help…