Home Swap
8 Signs That Home Swap Is Not For You
My family has enjoyed 14 home swaps in 13 years; home swap has shaped and enriched our lives. However, enjoying this form of vacation may not be for everyone. Here are 8 signs to help you determine whether home swap is for you. 1) You don’t want to meet locals – You have no interest … Continue reading
6 Goof-Proof Strategies to Capture Your Next Home Exchange
You feel like a trained athlete. You’re in the zone, the home exchange vacation zone. You’ve joined a home exchange club Taken beautiful photos of your home Created a fabulous home exchange webpage Sent out e-mails to home exchange prospects Then… nothing happens. Three house swappers have written to me within the last few weeks … Continue reading
Love Home Swap Triples Its Membership
International vacation home exchange company, Love Home Swap has acquired its former competitor 1st Home Exchange. What’s interesting is that last year, Love Home Swap had 7,500 members in 105 countries and 1st Home Exchange had 19,500 members in 150 countries. It appears that the small fishy ate the big fishy! Now a few months … Continue reading
My Home Exchange Journey and Why I Think You Should Try Home Exchange Too
Home exchange vacations are how my family has seen the world. Our very first exchange was in 2000 when my children were 8 and 12 years old. We exchanged homes with a family from Windsor, England who lived in a fabulous red brick mansion built in 1485. Since then we’ve enjoyed home exchange vacations in … Continue reading
Home Exchange Revealed Interview with Lois Sealey, Partner, Home Base Holidays
Lois Sealy founded Home Base Holidays in 1985, initially as a B&B guide for the U.S. and Canada. However, after discovering and really enjoying the benefits of home exchange, Lois soon added home swap as another option. Almost 28 years later Home Base has grown to 5000 members in 80 countries. Annual membership fees are: … Continue reading
Freedom From Want… of a Family Vacation: 9 Valuable Action Steps
The phrase “Freedom from want” often conjures up images of Norman Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving dinner painting. However, because I’m always thinking about travel, I interpret the phrase to mean that people can enjoy freedom from want of a family vacation. We all want a vacation, but many people think they can’t afford it. You can … Continue reading
Powerful Proof That You’ll Save Big Money On Your Next Vacation When You Home Swap
Nobody has to tell me that you can save money when you home swap; after all, my family and I have enjoyed 14 home exchanges in 12 years. We are well aware of the financial benefits. However, I’ve never put pen to paper, er, finger to calculator to actually do the math. So let’s find … Continue reading
How Do You Find People Who Want to Home Swap?
Is your family intrigued by this idea of a home swap vacation? Your partner likes the sound of free accommodations, your daughter loves the possibility of getting her own bedroom and you swoon over the opportunity to vacation in a real neighborhood, not in a noisy business district. If you have a young man in … Continue reading
How To Home Swap If You Live in an Unglamorous City
Paris! New York! London! Little Rock? Yes! People want to home swap in big cities AND small towns. Even if your town seems unglamorous to you, visitors might find it charming, peaceful, refreshing! Home swap is for everyone. Including people who live in small towns. You’ll get helpful tips on how to attract a home … Continue reading
How Yoga Can Help You Find The Right Home Swap
I love it when something new in my life suddenly intersects with something I’ve been doing a long time. For example, yoga and home swap. As many of you know, I’ve been involved with home swap for 12 years, however yoga flowed into my life only recently. So when my yoga instructor used the term … Continue reading
