Successful Home Exchanging - Selecting a Club

This is part one of a much requested series I’ve been asked to write covering successful home exchange procedures.

The first thing you will need to do is select a club. It’s very inadvisable to even think about cutting out this comparatively small expenditure and go it alone with classified advertisements or an ad on Craigslist, joining a club gives you the immediate peace of mind of knowing that you are joining a like minded group of people that have provided the organization with their personal information and in most cases have listed their own home exchange offer.

Club selection has in itself become a great deal easier with the launch of CHECtravel. With the recent explosive growth in the home exchange industry, an organization such as CHECTravel will do an immense amount to unite the legitimate clubs under an unbiased umbrella association. Both individual Home Exchange members and the clubs themselves can do nothing but benefit from the exceptionally high standards and code of conduct CHECTravel has established and pledges to maintain.

To pull a quote from their opening page:

“All of our affiliated clubs and individual CHEC members have been approved by an independent committee consisting of club owners, industry professionals and experienced home exchangers. CHEC-certified agencies have agreed to uphold CHEC’s high ethical standards of behavior for themselves and their members”.

Of course, CHECtravel has only just launched so there are a number of very good clubs not yet affiliated with them. Application and acceptance has to be a time consuming process. But without a doubt they are providing a very legitimate yardstick for newcomers to use.

More next time …..

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