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Many home exchanges also include a car exchange. Yesterday I came across this “Before You Go Vehicle Safety Checklist” by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). It’s intended as a pre-vacation checklist for people driving their cars on vacation, but it occurred to me that it also works extremely well as guidelines for home […]

I received this especially useful advice from a home exchange member last week and thought it would definitely worth publishing in this blog and sharing with everyone—
Do not forget to include travel insurance in your to do list before planning your home exchange vacation. Most people take travel insurance lightly and never discuss travel insurance […]

A great many home exchanges include exchange of the family car. It’s an ideal arrangement that will usually save the exchange partners a substantial amount of money in car rental fees.
A member from the UK has contacted me with this question:
We’re in the middle of arranging an exchange with a family from Los Angeles. We’ve […]

A Major Step Forward to Certify Home Exchange Clubs
Copied directly from the CHECtravel website:
CHEC is a response to the demands of home exchangers and exchange club owners themselves. Together a need was recognized for an organization that could create and maintain professional standards for exchange agencies, as well as a code of conduct for individual […]

It’s not my intention to turn this into a commercial blog, but when I see an item I believe may be of benefit to both home exchangers and travelers in general, it has to be worth a few minutes of my time to bring it to everyone’s attention.
A number of years ago, I came across […]

Home Exchange Blog:
We make a point of recording all the activity of our members in various administrative logs. Not for any purpose other than to record how they navigate and use the web site. It has often proved to be a very useful tool when planning site improvements. One very useful record the logs do […]

With the launch of our new home exchange web site, we introduced a new search option that allows both visitors and members to search our database of listings and specify that their results should only show listings that have photographs. We included this option because many people had requested it. They did not want to […]

I’ve been talking over the last few days with a long time member who states she and her family were let down at the last minute by a family with whom she believed she had a firm, committed arrangement.
Unfortunately, what she didn’t have was a written Home Exchange Agreement.
The lady sent me copies of the […]

Occasionally I am contacted either by phone or email by someone viewing the ExchangeHomes.com home exchange website, who is planning a trip to a very specific location and has found just one listing matching where they hope to go. When our completely revised website goes live, these people will be able to join as Associate […]

As we start looking towards the end of the year, and, of course Christmas, savvy home exchangers are also beginning to form their plans for 2008. The euphemism about the early bird catching the worm always holds true for home swapping. Of course, as new members continue to join throughout the year there will always […]

When I tell them, people find it hard to believe that the most difficult question I’m frequently expected to answer is: “What are my chances of getting a home exchange?”
There are so many variables involved, I would have to be thoroughly dishonest to even pretend to provide an up-front answer to that question.
Instead, I realized […]

To continue with the discussion about telephones as they relate to your home exchange arrangements:
At the beginning of this year we switched cold turkey from a traditional land-line to a Vonage VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service and I have no hesitation in saying it’s the best move we ever made.
Shortly afterwards we made a […]