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Since the onset of the recent credit crunch and associated stagnant real estate market, a whole new trend has been developing where, rather than sit around for endless months in a futile attempt to sell a home, people are simply making a permanent exchange with a property owner located in the area where they need [...]

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Several clubs have recently begun experimenting with short, 6-month membership options which could be attractive to people completely new to the concept of home exchanging. Possibly the shorter commitment gives them more confidence, if they later decide that home exchange isn’t for them after all, their up-front commitment has been much less.
So, following this line [...]

There is a definite and growing tendency for aspiring home exchangers to seek exchange partners via classified ads such as Craigslist. Is this a good idea? Absolutely not!
I know the immediate reaction to that statement—well, that’s just sour grapes, coming from a home exchange company owner, but I assure you that’s not the case. For [...]

February is always a quiet month for enrolling new Home Exchange Memberships. Christmas and the New Year are over but the associated bills are still being paid. Not the time of year when many people are even considering their vacation options. But right in the middle of February comes Valentine’s Day, so ExchangeHomes.com thought it would be fun to “spread a little love!”

Recently, when checking one of our home exchange “Lifetime Members” listings, I saw that all the dates covered her now past 2008 requirements, so I emailed her to remind her that she needed to update her information in order to keep her listing online. A day or two later Laura phoned me to explain that [...]

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 [...]

Recently, ExchangeHomes.com was the featured Home Exchange company in a San Francisco Bay Area, ABC-KGO/TV Channel 7 news segment, Michael Finney’s “7 On Your Side”.
The program featured two ExchangeHomes.com members: Member 25493 from Santa Cruz, and their home exchange partners: Member 26013 from Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
The comments of both sets of members [...]

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 [...]

Despite a very clearly written Copyright posted on this blog, this morning I discovered that a blog calling itself skam08livejournal (interesting name) has committed an act of plagiarism and copied my recent post titled  Home Exchange Club Memberships vs Classified Advertising. They changed the title to read “Home Exchange vs Intermission Account of rents – [...]

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 [...]