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Another huge advantage of home exchange vacationing is the opportunity to take your pet with you. This is a definite possibility worth considering if you will be traveling by car or train to your home exchange destination, and even if you will be flying, it’s not out of the question.

Normally, to get the best bargains, flight tickets need to be booked quite a long way in advance. Today, virtually everyone is watching the pennies so it’s highly unlikely that too many home exchanges will be set up if the time is so short, only expensive air fares are available.

Lots of home exchangers, as retirement looms close, start wondering if continuing to live in, or in close proximity to a large metropolitan area is such a good idea. While they were working, city life may have been attractive, but in retirement do they really want to continue fighting the traffic and dealing with the rush on a day to day basis? Maybe retirement could be so much more enjoyable in a slower, more tranquil setting.

One detail that many home exchangers tend to leave until the last minute, is discussing their plans with their insurance broker. Immediately you decide to embark upon a home exchange it’s definitely a good idea to sit down with your broker so that you can familiarize him with your plans.

Over and over again, the question I’m asked above all others is: suppose I try home exchanging, how do I deal with any damage or breakages that occur in my home during the exchange? This issue has been covered in great detail on the ExchangeHomes.com website, in earlier posts on this blog, in our Newsletter, [...]

While the recent wildfires were raging in Southern California, we received a phone call from a member who was actually participating in a home exchange involving a home located close to the areas being devastated. The family were from the UK and had two young children. With absolutely no experience of this type of natural [...]

It’s strange how very often we seem to receive batches of emails and phone calls all relating to a similar subject. The current point being raised addresses members who choose to conduct their correspondence outside of the the web site, but completely fail to include any reference to either their own Listing I.D. of the [...]

Home Exchange vacationing has always been lauded as a means of free vacationing or free travel, which technically it isn’t, because families and individuals still have to travel to and from their home exchange destinations. It’s also been all too evident recently that the price of travel has been increasing exponentially. So—I thought it was [...]

I was busy working at my desk yesterday morning when I received an IM from my daughter who still lives in Southern California informing me that they had just been hit by a fairly big earthquake. During the years my husband and I had lived in Southern California we had experienced many earthquakes including two [...]

I’ve always found that many of our Home Exchange Members have not sat back and settled for merely one home exchange per year. We’ve constantly heard from members who have been much more inventive and participated in multiple weekend exchanges as well. Two pairs of members immediately spring to mind: the first are in Southern [...]

I’ve just been checking through some of the home exchange offers listed on the ExchangeHomes.com web site. Either ExchangeHomes.com members are completely ignoring the option to mark their listings as “Exchange Arranged”, or many especially attractive exchange opportunities appear to remain available for the months of August and September. I asked one member, who I [...]

For some time now, our ExchangeHomes.com web site has offered two distinct alternatives when describing the Internet access available in the home you’re offering for home exchange:  Dial Up  High Speed Unless listings are edited by their owners, each defaults to the “Dial Up” option. Since this was added, new members of course have selected [...]