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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 […]

A problem I’m currently encountering with an Internet business has given me pause to think about the whole spectrum of home exchange agencies. The business I’m battling with is a “hobby” business, run by the wife of a recently retired sporting super-star. He has a web site and his wife has added a spin-off, selling […]

Oh dear, yet again with newcomers visiting the ExchangeHomes.com web site I find myself having to explain the difference between join and expiration dates versus requested home exchange dates.
Since I started this home exchange blog, I believe this is the third time I’ve written a post dedicated to the subject of published dates, but unfortunately […]

Occasionally I am contacted either by phone or email by someone viewing the ExchangeHomes.com home exchange website, who is planning a trip to a very specific location and has found just one listing matching where they hope to go. When our completely revised website goes live, these people will be able to join as Associate […]

As we start looking towards the end of the year, and, of course Christmas, savvy home exchangers are also beginning to form their plans for 2008. The euphemism about the early bird catching the worm always holds true for home swapping. Of course, as new members continue to join throughout the year there will always […]

I received this email just the other day and just had to share it with everyone—
My husband and I moved away from England to the USA almost thirty years ago. Although we settled into our new life in San Francisco, there were always certain things I missed from back home. Over the years these memories […]

I was delighted this morning to read a blog extolling the idea of home exchanging for a great, affordable honeymoon. The blog I’m referring to is Our One Heart, and the posting I’m referring to is titled Affordable Honeymoon Ideas.
Christine lists Home Exchanging as her number two option (number one suggests placing the honeymoon on […]

It surprises me that so few of my past and likely present exchange partners are so uninventive when it comes to travel arrangements. Virtually all of you expect to fly out from your local airport on a Saturday and return home again on a subsequent Saturday.

It’s a well known fact that the best air travel […]

When I tell them, people find it hard to believe that the most difficult question I’m frequently expected to answer is: “What are my chances of getting a home exchange?”
There are so many variables involved, I would have to be thoroughly dishonest to even pretend to provide an up-front answer to that question.
Instead, I realized […]