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Despite a very clearly written Copyright posted on this blog, this morning I discovered that a blog calling itself skam08livejournal (interesting name) has committed an act of plagiarism and copied my recent post titled  Home Exchange Club Memberships vs Classified Advertising. They changed the title to read “Home Exchange vs Intermission Account of rents - […]

I was busy working at my desk yesterday morning when I received an IM from my daughter who still lives in Southern California informing me that they had just been hit by a fairly big earthquake. During the years my husband and I had lived in Southern California we had experienced many earthquakes including two […]

This is intended as a follow up to yesterday’s post in which we discussed the benefits of home exchange over a vacation rental.
Many ExchangeHomes.com members list a second homes as their home exchange property and this immediately offers a whole new realm of travel possibilities, especially if anyone involved has irresolvable qualms about opening up […]

I recently received a phone call from a lady with this question:
Why on earth would any sane person (her words) even consider a home exchange when they can simply rent a vacation property and not have to worry about total strangers living in their home while they are away?
Well, in these difficult times I suppose […]

I’ve always found that many of our Home Exchange Members have not sat back and settled for merely one home exchange per year. We’ve constantly heard from members who have been much more inventive and participated in multiple weekend exchanges as well.
Two pairs of members immediately spring to mind: the first are in Southern California […]

I received this really great email this morning from one of our long time Home Exchange Members - 1688  (Click to visit their listing).
They have been members for a number of years, hence I was amazed to read that they had not, until now, actually participated in a home exchange themselves.

Just a little story to brighten […]

I’ve just been checking through some of the home exchange offers listed on the ExchangeHomes.com web site. Either ExchangeHomes.com members are completely ignoring the option to mark their listings as “Exchange Arranged”, or many especially attractive exchange opportunities appear to remain available for the months of August and September.
I asked one member, who I […]

For some time now, our ExchangeHomes.com web site has offered two distinct alternatives when describing the Internet access available in the home you’re offering for home exchange:

 Dial Up
 High Speed

Unless listings are edited by their owners, each defaults to the “Dial Up” option.
Since this was added, new members of course have selected accordingly, but I’ve noticed […]

Usually I try to keep abreast of the multitude of things being written on the web on the subject of home exchanging. On an average day I will find several new postings and if appropriate I like to spend a few minutes responding.
Recently I’ve become more than a little concerned by the number of of […]

ExchangeHomes.com Home Exchange finally has a Resources Page in place containing links to several extremely useful travel oriented web sites. Should anyone click these links and make a purchase, ExchangeHomes.com will receive a small percentage. I plan to retain a mere 5% of whatever the page earns to cover administrative expenses and the remaining 95% […]

Many home exchanges also include a car exchange. Yesterday I came across this “Before You Go Vehicle Safety Checklist” by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). It’s intended as a pre-vacation checklist for people driving their cars on vacation, but it occurred to me that it also works extremely well as guidelines for home […]