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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 [...]

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 [...]