How To Home Exchange
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
Where To Learn More About Home Exchange
You’ve come to the right place to discover more about home swap. My family has exchanged our home 13 times in 12 years; I’m here to share with you ideas, tips and advice about how to travel the world and stay for free. We’ve all heard the statement, “Knowledge is power.” And I believe increasing … Continue reading
Home Exchange Expert, Shelley Miller, Interviewed on Women’s Radio
It’s a simple concept; you temporarily trade your home for a home in a dream location. It could be on the French Riviera or a rural village in Ireland. If you want to travel the world, avoid spending money on accommodations and really experience life in other countries, home exchange is your answer. In this … Continue reading
5 Useful Marketing Tips To Attract Home Exchange Partners To Your Small Town
People who live in small towns often want to home exchange, but worry that their city isn’t “glamorous” enough to attract visitors. That it’s not interesting. That, “No one will want to visit my boring town.” Well, just take a look at the list of Best Small Towns, announced this month by USA TODAY and … Continue reading
Catch a Fabulous Home Exchange With a Great Email: 9 Writing Tips
Once you’ve joined a home exchange agency and completed your listing with photographs and information about you and your home, you are ready to send an email to home exchange prospects. Writing that first home swap email can be daunting. You want to appear friendly, yet professional. You want the reader to look at the … Continue reading
In Less Than 60 Seconds Find Out Who Wants to Home Swap in Your City
There are people all over the world who want to vacation in your home—and yes—that means you get to vacation in their home. For free. I recently discovered a tantalizing way to find a home exchange. It’s called reverse search. If you try it, just be sure to have tissue ready. You will salivate. With … Continue reading
Home Swap Vacation Season is Just Around the Corner – Find Your Perfect Match This Month
February is the month of matchmaking and a good time to begin the search for your family’s home exchange vacation partner. If you start now, you’ll have plenty of time to find the perfect match for your summer holiday. For most families there is one person who takes the lead on sending out the home … Continue reading
How To Protect Your Valuables During a Home Exchange
“What do I do with my valuables when strangers are living in my home?” This is one of the most common questions I hear from people who are considering a home swap. I have some ideas, but first I have a question for you: What do you consider valuable? Is it jewelry? Fine paintings? Expensive … Continue reading
Live In One of the Top Ten, If Only for a Vacation
Internationally known travel writer and publisher, Arthur Frommer, recently announced his ten favorite travel destinations. Three cities were in the U.S. and the others were a diverse assortment from around the globe. I love these kinds of lists. They make the world seem smaller and more accessible. My mind immediately wondered if home exchanges were … Continue reading
Home Swap Season
I love to go fishing for travel deals in January. Home exchanging introduced me to a whole new world. So these days, laptop in hand, I burrow into my favorite chair and fish for home swap partners. You want to try it? Assuming you’ve already joined a home swap organization, … Continue reading
