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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 […]

With the beta testing on the new web site now winding down, we’re coming closer and closer to the actual launch! It’s very exciting because this will represent our first major upgrade in several years. Oh, we’ve added numerous new features over time, but a brand new web site, completely re-written, last took place in […]

I’ve been talking over the last few days with a long time member who states she and her family were let down at the last minute by a family with whom she believed she had a firm, committed arrangement.
Unfortunately, what she didn’t have was a written Home Exchange Agreement.
The lady sent me copies of the […]

This wonderful Home Exchange Story was sent to me by a long time member. I need to give full credit to  Travel and Transitions where it was travel story contest participant. It’s a great, heartwarming story.
We had been let down by email at the last minute by our Chicago holiday exchange partners. The only consolation, that […]