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Usually I try to keep abreast of the multitude of things being written on the web on the subject of home exchanging. On an average day I will find several new postings and if appropriate I like to spend a few minutes responding.
Recently I’ve become more than a little concerned by the number of of […]

All last night our house was battered by violent storms:thunder crashed, lightening flashed, wind gusts rattled the patio furniture, and whipped the rain against the windows. The type of weather my mother had described as a “wild night at sea”!

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 […]

Last week I received the following report and photographs from two long-time members from the UK - Eric and Irene. They and their American home exchange partners have certainly managed to create a new and innovative slant on home exchanging.
Irene wrote ….
Hi Anne
Now we’re settled back home after our absolutely unbelievable June/July exchange, I just […]

Where I live we’ve been hit very hard over the past couple of months with extremely heavy rain. When I looked out of the windows this morning to see yet more of it falling, it brought to mind one of the major benefits of home exchanging.
When you plan vacations and trips you cannot predict that […]

As I advise members all the time, offering to exchange the family car as part of the home exchange deal is one of the best incentives you can include. Car rentals are currently very expensive - on a recent trip to the UK my husband paid more to rent a car than he did for […]

The majority of our members plan one major home exchange every year or so, and many of them also make multiple “weekend exchanges”. I find that the word “weekend” is generally used fairly loosely to cover anything from two to four days.
Weekend exchanges represent exceptional value. During the 25+ years I lived in Southern California […]

The other day a lady on the phone asked me “what are the rules of home exchanging?”
I suppose that the first rule is that money never changes hands. The homes that are exchanged are viewed as a barter, never as individual values weighed one against another. This fundamental principle is the one thing that people […]

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As we were getting up this morning my husband turned on the TV news to check on the weather, but of course, being American television what we were actually presented with was a commercial. The commercial was for Expedia and they telling us that if we make our summer hotel reservations with them […]

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ExchangeHomes.com has always been an advocate of promoting home exchange as a great way for people with disabilities to travel. Over the years we’ve listed homes with major accessible features such as wide doors, ramps, handrails, accessible cabinetry layouts, shallow-depth refrigerators, curb-free roll-in showers, adjustable beds, and lifts and transfer devices. This […]

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I checked some major world currencies against the dollar this morning. One US dollar buys the following: £0.498828 (British pound), CN$1.1227 (Canadian dollar), €0.73524 (Euro), AUS$1.19574 (Australian dollar).

These figures are effectively putting a stranglehold on Americans vacationing abroad. They add up the airfare, hotel or vacation rental charges, cost of a rental car […]

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ExchangeHomes.com recently conducted an email survey of our Senior Members - that is, members who confess to being 55 or older.
The results of that survey are documented below, and we found them to be immensely interesting. We were also touched by the number of kind remarks many of the members added at […]