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This is an old, old chestnut, but I’m afraid I must drag it out, dust it off and bring it to your attention yet again. If you are a someone who has a home exchange listing, with us or any other club—CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER! Over and over I’m receiving puzzled, disappointed, frequently frustrated reports [...]

This is an old chestnut, and I keep hauling it out, dusting it down and repeating it year after year, but it really is extremely important that you make the effort to add several eye catching photographs to your home exchange listing. At ExchangeHomes.com we have programming in place to track exactly how people—members and [...]

This is statement I read and hear a lot, and it’s usually followed with—”of course, I only want to home exchange with something of the same value”! At that point I usually give a sigh of resignation. As any realtor will tell you, first and foremost, it’s all about location, location, location. A builder could [...]

Unfortunately, 2009 doesn’t seem to be starting any different than previous years. Over the past few weeks we’ve received several complaints from members who have sent out home exchange inquiry emails, only to receive no response. Thankfully, this has been somewhat counteracted by another member who contacted us full of compliments. She said she had [...]

Normally, to get the best bargains, flight tickets need to be booked quite a long way in advance. Today, virtually everyone is watching the pennies so it’s highly unlikely that too many home exchanges will be set up if the time is so short, only expensive air fares are available.

I find it particularly unfortunate that a recent flurry of reports appearing all over the Internet referencing the age old “payment by cashier’s check” scam that targets vacation rental owners, are also frequently citing home exchangers as likely victims. This should definitely NOT be the case, simply because with a correctly arranged home exchange, NO [...]

Several times recently we’ve had visitors to the ExchangeHomes.com home exchange web site who have taken the trouble to add listings of their own, complete with great, detailed descriptions and lots of bright, illustrative photographs, but they’ve stopped short of paying the necessary fee to make the listing go live. Our policy is to give them [...]

Earlier this week I received a phone call from a lady needing advice. She had joined ExchangeHomes.com back in July and sent out more than thirty contact emails trying to set up a home exchange, but, she claimed, immediately the people she was contacting discovered she was a first time home exchanger, they had suddenly [...]

It’s strange how very often we seem to receive batches of emails and phone calls all relating to a similar subject. The current point being raised addresses members who choose to conduct their correspondence outside of the the web site, but completely fail to include any reference to either their own Listing I.D. of the [...]

I know there are a great many people out there thinking about home exchanging, but never confident enough to actually make the commitment of joining a home exchange organization. Well, I’m going to make it a whole lot easier for the next 50 members who join, by giving them a copy of Home Exchange Academy. [...]

Back at the beginning of February when our major web site re-write / upgrade went live, we introduced a two-tiered level of home exchange memberships. This is one change I had always resisted, in fact anyone who has read my previous posts on the subject of free memberships would be well aware of my opinion [...]

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 [...]