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Occasionally we receive emails and phone calls from potential home exchangers who are interested in joining ExchangeHomes.com, but are reluctant to do so because they cannot find their country included in the list of Countries, either in the Quick Search on the Home Page, or on the Detailed Search page.
If there is currently no listing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]

Home Exchange Blog:
We make a point of recording all the activity of our members in various administrative logs. Not for any purpose other than to record how they navigate and use the web site. It has often proved to be a very useful tool when planning site improvements. One very useful record the logs do […]

I received this hilarious email from a member last week and just had to share it with everyone. The member didn’t want me to include her name, so I’m going to refer to her as ‘Susan’.

With the launch of our new home exchange web site, we introduced a new search option that allows both visitors and members to search our database of listings and specify that their results should only show listings that have photographs. We included this option because many people had requested it. They did not want to […]

Since my last post regarding the rogue Chinese “Home Exchange Company”, I’ve been in email correspondence with a lady who read the post and contacted me, hoping I might somehow help her.
“Faye” quickly explained that she is does not belong to ExchangeHomes.com. She is a member of club whose name I won’t mention, which, she […]

Over the past couple of weeks, all the major home exchange clubs have been increasingly concerned by reports circulating about a rogue club out of China calling itself AllHomeExchange.com. This disgraceful organization has somehow found the means to infiltrate the security of many of the established home exchange clubs and plagiarized their listing data. As […]