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One of the most popular strategies for budget traveling is to make what is traditionally one of the most expensive parts of travel the airfare free. One great way to score free flights without tediously collecting frequent flier miles is to get yourself bumped off of the flight on which you are booked. [...]

Packing properly is an important consideration for the budget traveler. Traveling on a budget means traveling light. The more unencumbered you are by junk you don’t need, the more chances you will have and the less expensive your travel will be. For instance, while the traveler with only one bag is free to hop [...]

Vacations are one of best times of our lives. We go and explore places we have always dreamed about, see those breath-taking sights, savor exotic food, maybe sample some dance steps and try out those colorful costumes. At today’s prices, an average wage-earner can only dream about it. With home exchange, all that is possible. [...]

Yet again this much debated point has been brought to my attention. A visitor to ExchangeHomes.com has contacted me, explaining that they have a home exchange listed on CraigsList and requesting contact privileges with one of our members. The lady was most indignant when I replied (very politely) explaining that our members join ExchangeHomes expecting, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 them [...]

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 [...]