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Over the past weekend and Memorial Day, I’ve been swamped with people inquiring if I’ve sold ExchangeHomes.com to a new company called HomeForSwaps.
Late on Monday, Dennis Chobater, long time colleague and owner of Global Home Exchange / 4HomeEx.com also contacted me to inquire if I had seen the declaration posted on the HomeForSwaps front […]

It’s an almost daily occurrence for people to either email or phone and say that they cannot locate any member indicating in their listing that they wish to exchange with wherever it is that they are located.

The first question I always ask is, have they checked out the listings stating that they are “Open to […]

I’ve just been contacted by a very concerned member. She supplied me with a copy of an email she had just received from another member explaining that she was initiating contact because she had been let down at the last minute by another exchange partner.
As it happens, the member who sent the contact had only […]

The other day a lady on the phone asked me “what are the rules of home exchanging?”
I suppose that the first rule is that money never changes hands. The homes that are exchanged are viewed as a barter, never as individual values weighed one against another. This fundamental principle is the one thing that people […]

After a hiatus of more than two years, the ExchangeHomes bi-monthly newsletter is about to re-emerge. It was paused indefinitely when family commitments made it impossible for me to devote the necessary time to its production. My elderly mothers health was failing and required me to take constant trips back and forth between California and […]

We have been hearing again from disappointed members who send out exchange offers but fail to receive any sort of a response. This is a continuing gripe being dealt with by all the home exchange companies as well as the blogs devoted to home exchanging. The excellent blog Home Exchange Travels opened this Wednesday’s post […]

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Our members have always been particularly inventive when thinking of ways to supply their exchange partners with keys, both to the exchange home and to the car. Car keys come into the arrangement if (as if often the case), family number one drives the car to the airport and parks it there for […]

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As we were getting up this morning my husband turned on the TV news to check on the weather, but of course, being American television what we were actually presented with was a commercial. The commercial was for Expedia and they telling us that if we make our summer hotel reservations with them […]

Home Exchange Blog
During the month of May, ExchangeHomes.com has volunteered to be the inaugural home exchange club, hosting KnowYourTrades’ Find the Crown treasure hunt.

Somewhere within the web site we have hidden the Exchange Queen’s crown. Visitors and members are asked to search for it, and if they find it click on the image. They will […]

Home Exchange Blog
I’m constantly being asked by members what is the single most important thing they can do to make their home swap listing stand out. I always tell them the same thing - add photographs as quickly as possible.
A lot of members add pictures immediately they join, others do so within a few days. […]

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ExchangeHomes.com has always been an advocate of promoting home exchange as a great way for people with disabilities to travel. Over the years we’ve listed homes with major accessible features such as wide doors, ramps, handrails, accessible cabinetry layouts, shallow-depth refrigerators, curb-free roll-in showers, adjustable beds, and lifts and transfer devices. This […]