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Last week we heard of an unfortunate incident whereby an ExchangeHomes.com member is urgently seeking a replacement home exchange to England, preferably the west country.
They need an exchange between Saturday September 6th, 2008 and Saturday 20th September. To see their listing, click >> Here Any arrangements don’t have to be simultaneous because their exchange property—located […]
After a recent mailing to our list of expiring home exchange members, I (as usual) checked our email client for the inevitable list of undeliverable mail. I was suddenly struck by five emails unable to be delivered because the owner’s mail boxes were full. I looked a little bit closer: 2 were Yahoo addresses, […]
When, early in February, we went on-line with the major overhaul to our web site, we bowed to pressure from many members and visitors and introduced a two-tier membership system, effectively allowing non-publishing—or “Associate”—members to initiate contacts with members who paid to list their homes for exchange. We did however exercise an important constraint that […]
It’s not my intention to turn this into a commercial blog, but when I see an item I believe may be of benefit to both home exchangers and travelers in general, it has to be worth a few minutes of my time to bring it to everyone’s attention.
A number of years ago, I came across […]
Part Seven of the Series
This post will conclude my series of posts walking you through the entire process of selecting your home exchange club, setting up your listing, making contacts and, most important, finalizing the home exchange arrangements.
Finalizing your arrangements can be critically important and unfortunately it’s one aspect of home swapping that some members […]
Okay, so you’ve joined the [tag-tec]home exchange club[/tag-tec] of your choice—hopefully ExchangeHomes.com—and set up your listing, including adding some illustrative photographs. Now it’s time to begin contacting fellow members. Don’t make the serious mistake of adding a listing (no matter how great you think it may be), and then sit back and assume that your […]
