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I received this especially useful advice from a home exchange member last week and thought it would definitely worth publishing in this blog and sharing with everyone—
Do not forget to include travel insurance in your to do list before planning your home exchange vacation. Most people take travel insurance lightly and never discuss travel insurance […]
Many members successfully arrange home exchanges to include their pets. For a lot of families, caring for each other’s pets is an enhancement to the arrangement, especially if they have children. However, I cannot stress emphatically enough that no-one should ever demand pet car of their home exchange partners. Many people don’t like pets, have […]
Regrettably, I have another request for a “rescue” home exchange partner. Member 4955 lives in Derrybeg, Co. Donegal, Ireland and has airline tickets to fly to San Francisco between July 30th and August 15th (when they will be moving on to visit friends in Atlanta) ,returning to Ireland on Sunday August 24th. Their home in […]
A great many home exchanges include exchange of the family car. It’s an ideal arrangement that will usually save the exchange partners a substantial amount of money in car rental fees.
A member from the UK has contacted me with this question:
We’re in the middle of arranging an exchange with a family from Los Angeles. We’ve […]
We’ve recently been contacted by a tv production company (the first this “season”), asking if we could put them in touch with two sets of members about to embark on a home exchange, between either the USA and London, or USA and Paris. The tv company is based in New York so they would definitely […]
A Major Step Forward to Certify Home Exchange Clubs
Copied directly from the CHECtravel website:
CHEC is a response to the demands of home exchangers and exchange club owners themselves. Together a need was recognized for an organization that could create and maintain professional standards for exchange agencies, as well as a code of conduct for individual […]
I was somewhat disappointed to read a post this morning on another home exchange blog referencing an email the author had received from a New York home exchanger requesting information about putting together a ‘Home Exchange Contract’— or as we call it—’Agreement’.
ExchangeHomes.com offers templates for Home Exchange Agreements, Car Exchange Agreements and a Home Exchange ‘Book’ […]
