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A Home Exchange That Cost Much More Than Expected!

I received this hilarious email from a member last week and just had to share it with everyone. The member didn’t want me to include her name, so I’m going to refer to her as ‘Susan’.

California Home Exchange

This wonderful Home Exchange Story was sent to me by a long time member. I need to give full credit to  Travel and Transitions where it was travel story contest participant. It’s a great, heartwarming story.
We had been let down by email at the last minute by our Chicago holiday exchange partners. The only consolation, that […]

Home Exchange To Hear The Church Bells Ring

I received this email just the other day and just had to share it with everyone—
My husband and I moved away from England to the USA almost thirty years ago. Although we settled into our new life in San Francisco, there were always certain things I missed from back home. Over the years these memories […]

Home Exchange Requires Detailed Discussions

I heard this week from a somewhat disgruntled member from the US who had returned recently from an exchange with a family in the UK. He was delighted with the home he and his family had exchanged with, but he had been horrified when he climbed into the exchange car and discovered it was equipped […]

Home Exchange Via a Motor Home?

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 […]

Open to Offers Home Exchanging

I received this email last week from ExchangeHomes.com members Bill and Bess.

Hi Anne
I’ve just read your post on 27th of May encouraging members to contact home exchange advertisers who’ve listed “Open to Offers” under their exchange destinations and I thought I should share Bill’s and my experiences from last summer.
We live in Oxford and had […]

A True Home Exchange Devotee Leaves Us

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I was so sorry last week to hear of the passing of one of our most devoted members. John P first joined ExchangeHomes.com in 1990 after he was widowed and was seeking a means of visiting his three adult children without being a burden upon them. He lived in Macon, Georgia, while his […]

Home Exchange Around The World

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Over the past week we’ve been talking with Joe and Mary, long time members of ExchangeHomes.com who phoned to tell us that they had recently returned home from a “home exchange world tour”.
We were intrigued. Over the years a lot of our members have used their initiative to string a couple of home […]

A Home Exchange To Paris

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Over the years we’ve received some hilarious reports from members recounting various funny events that have occurred during their home exchanges, but one of the funniest had to some from Jeff who had arranged to exchange his one bedroom New York apartment for similar accommodation in Paris.
Jeff arrived in Paris late in the […]

A Tale of Two Cats

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ExchangeHomes heard last week from long-time member “Marylee”, who was eager to tell us she had just completed her twenty-fifth home exchange. What’s so special about that you may ask, to which we would reply - everything!
Marylee joined ExchangeHomes.com back in January 1996. She lived in Atlanta, Georgia and was dreading the impending […]

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