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Home Exchange on Rainy Days
2007-07-05 19:23:00 Where I live we’ve been hit very hard over the past couple of months with extremely heavy rain. When I looked out of the windows this morning to see yet more of it falling, it brought to mind one of the major benefits of home exchanging. When you plan vacations and trips you cannot predict that ... More About: Home , Exchange , Days , Chang , Chan
Home Exchange Treasure of the Month
2007-07-03 18:18:00 I was delighted to hear from Know Your Trade this morning that Exchange Home s.com is their July selection for their “Treasure of the Month” award. Thanks so much Know Your Trade, it’s always great to be the recipient of commendations that recognizes your hard work and effort. I was also pleased for our website to be referred to ... More About: Homes , Sure , Chang
Home Exchange - Who Pays What?
2007-06-28 17:18:00 The overriding golden rule of home swap vacationing is that as far as the perceived price of the vacation property is concerned, no cash whatsoever changes hands. That’s the fundamental joy of home exchanging - no hotel bills, no rental costs. Other bills need to be addressed during the discussions leading up to your exchange. Normally ... More About: Home , Tricks , Exchange , Pays , Chang
ExchangeHomes Membership Competition
2007-06-27 16:43:00 In an endeavor to further develop the ExchangeHomes Member and visitor community, we’re going to launch a competition to “kick start”, so to speak, our new ExchangeHomes Forum. Does anyone have a particularly good home exchange or budget vacation tip? Yes - of course you do!! So visit our brand new ExchangeHomes Forum and get writing! Each month ... More About: Competition , Tricks , Administration , Ship , Petit
Home Exchange and Glossy Advertising
2007-06-26 18:47:00 Seldom a week passes without some glossy magazine or another calling up trying to sell us exorbitantly priced advertising. They just don’t get it when I patiently (well, almost always) explain to them that home exchange memberships never get sold via glitzy full page spreads. It simply doesn’t happen that way. Just a few days ago ... More About: Advertising , Home , Exchange , Administration , Glossy
Home Exchange and Sports Fans
2007-06-19 15:06:00 A great many people who home exchange are sports fans. Consequently, if the home you are offering to swap is located within easy reach of any sports venue, make sure you include this information in your listing. The possibilities are virtually endless. Horse racing fans would love to participate in a home exchange which allowed them ... More About: Sports , Fans , Home , Tricks , Exchange
Weather At Your Home Exchange Destination
2007-06-18 18:52:00 An Exchange Home s.com member has shared some very fundamental, but often not thought of advice for her fellow members. Before agreeing to a home exchange in an area you are not at all familiar with, first make absolutely sure that their climate at the time of year you are considering is something you are quite literally ... More About: Weather , Tricks , Destination
Open to Offers Home Exchanging
2007-06-15 19:53:00 I received this email last week from ExchangeHome s.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 ... More About: Chang , Chan
Vanishing Home Exchange Companies
2007-06-13 16:21:00 Yesterday I came across an article someone had posted on the Internet listing every possible home exchange company he could find. Many of the companies he included remain as household names in the home exchange community, but an unprecedented number were names I remembered hearing of over the years, then just as quickly forgetting, and ... More About: Companies , Home , Exchange , Shin , Vanishing
Pets and Your Home Exchange - More!
2007-06-11 15:32:00 A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the pros and cons of agreeing to care for your exchange partner’s pets. I pointed out that while caring for their cats is not generally too much of a tie, dogs are a different proposition. All dogs need to be allowed out to take care of ... More About: Pets , Home , Tricks , Exchange , Chang
Home Exchange - Leaving a Little ?Thank You? Gift
2007-06-08 18:30:00 As anyone who has participated in a home exchange will agree, as the exchange date nears you will have devoted a lot of time and energy to getting you home ready for your exchange partner’s arrival. If you’re anything like me the house will have undergone a major “spring cleaning”, the yard/garden combed to remove ... More About: Home , Tricks , Exchange , Gift , Thank You
Home Exchange and Swapping Cars
2007-06-07 23:01:00 As I advise members all the time, offering to exchange the family car as part of the home exchange deal is one of the best incentives you can include. Car rentals are currently very expensive - on a recent trip to the UK my husband paid more to rent a car than he did for ... More About: Cars , Home , Tricks , Exchange , Swap
Home Exchange References and Contracts
2007-06-06 22:00:00 I’ve just finished reading an article posted on a real estate blog featuring home exchanging as a means of affordable vacationing. The author listed some good points regarding locating and arranging an exchange, but I believe she placed way too much emphasis upon advising her readers to insist upon references and a formal contract. References probably ... More About: Home , Tricks , Exchange , Contra
Weekend Home Exchanges
2007-06-05 22:43:00 The majority of our members plan one major home exchange every year or so, and many of them also make multiple “weekend exchanges”. I find that the word “weekend” is generally used fairly loosely to cover anything from two to four days. Weekend exchanges represent exceptional value. During the 25+ years I lived in Southern California ... More About: Home , Tricks , Changes , Chang
One Person Who Should Never Home Exchange
2007-06-01 19:23:00 I was contacted this week by a lady who was phoning me (via our toll free number) to complain long and loud about her home exchange experience. Conversation with her was not easy because although she had called the Exchange homes Customer Service, it very quickly became obvious that my perceived role was just to listen ... More About: Home , Person , Chang , Chan
Disclaimer
2007-05-29 16:30:00 Over the past weekend and Memorial Day, I’ve been swamped with people inquiring if I’ve sold ExchangeHomes.com to a new company called HomeForSwaps. Late on Monday, Dennis Chobater, long time colleague and owner of Global Home Exchange / 4HomeEx.com also contacted me to inquire if I had seen the declaration posted on the HomeForSwaps front ... More About: Administration , Disclaimer , Disc
Our Many ?Open to Offers? Members
2007-05-27 17:11:00 It’s an almost daily occurrence for people to either email or phone and say that they cannot locate any member indicating in their listing that they wish to exchange with wherever it is that they are located. The first question I always ask is, have they checked out the listings stating that they are “Open to ... More About: Tricks , Offers , Offer , Members
Home Exchangers Let Down
2007-05-25 17:14:00 I’ve just been contacted by a very concerned member. She supplied me with a copy of an email she had just received from another member explaining that she was initiating contact because she had been let down at the last minute by another exchange partner. As it happens, the member who sent the contact had only ... More About: Home , Changers , Chang , Chan
Rules of Home Swapping
2007-05-23 15:54:00 The other day a lady on the phone asked me “what are the rules of home exchanging?” I suppose that the first rule is that money never changes hands. The homes that are exchanged are viewed as a barter, never as individual values weighed one against another. This fundamental principle is the one thing that people ... More About: Home , Rules , Swap , Ping , Rule
ExchangeHomes Bi-Monthly Newsletter
2007-05-22 02:22:00 After a hiatus of more than two years, the ExchangeHomes bi-monthly newsletter is about to re-emerge. It was paused indefinitely when family commitments made it impossible for me to devote the necessary time to its production. My elderly mothers health was failing and required me to take constant trips back and forth between California and ... More About: Newsletter , Chang , Chan , Month , Mont
No Response To Emails
2007-05-17 22:29:00 We have been hearing again from disappointed members who send out exchange offers but fail to receive any sort of a response. This is a continuing gripe being dealt with by all the home exchange companies as well as the blogs devoted to home exchanging. The excellent blog Home Exchange Travels opened this Wednesday’s post ... More About: Tricks , Emails , Response
Home Exchange Keys
2007-05-10 16:51:00 Home Exchange Blog Our members have always been particularly inventive when thinking of ways to supply their exchange partners with keys, both to the exchange home and to the car. Car keys come into the arrangement if (as if often the case), family number one drives the car to the airport and parks it there for ... More About: Home , Tricks , Keys , Chang
Main ExchangeHomes.com Website
2007-05-10 16:08:00 Click Here to visit the main ExchangeHomes.com website. More About: Website , Main , Chang , Chan
Save Big With A Home Exchange Vacation!
2007-05-08 17:43:00 Home Exchange Blog As we were getting up this morning my husband turned on the TV news to check on the weather, but of course, being American television what we were actually presented with was a commercial. The commercial was for Expedia and they telling us that if we make our summer hotel reservations with them ... More About: Home , Vacation , Save , Chang
ExchangeHomes is the Guineapig for ?Find the Crown?
2007-05-07 23:17:00 Home Exchange Blog During the month of May, ExchangeHomes.com has volunteered to be the inaugural home exchange club, hosting KnowYourTrades’ Find the Crown treasure hunt. Somewhere within the web site we have hidden the Exchange Queen’s crown. Visitors and members are asked to search for it, and if they find it click on the image. They will ... More About: The Crown , Guinea , Chang , Chan
Pictures In Your Home Exchange Listing
2007-05-05 22:29:00 Home Exchange Blog I’m constantly being asked by members what is the single most important thing they can do to make their home swap listing stand out. I always tell them the same thing - add photographs as quickly as possible. A lot of members add pictures immediately they join, others do so within a few days. ... More About: Pictures , Home , Tricks , Listing
Accessible Home Exchange Traveling
2007-05-02 19:41:00 Home Exchange Blog ExchangeHomes.com has always been an advocate of promoting home exchange as a great way for people with disabilities to travel. Over the years we’ve listed homes with major accessible features such as wide doors, ramps, handrails, accessible cabinetry layouts, shallow-depth refrigerators, curb-free roll-in showers, adjustable beds, and lifts and transfer devices. This ... More About: Home , Traveling , Chang , Chan
ExchangeHomes Forum
2007-04-30 15:56:00 Home Exchange BlogOver the 20+ years ExchangeHomes.com has been in business we have developed a community of people who cherish the experience of traveling both the world and in their own country, while living like a local. On April 28th we set up a forum for that community, plus anyone else who is passing by ... More About: Forum , Chang , Chan
Home Exchange Helps With the Exchange Rate
More articles from this author:2007-04-23 18:59:00 Home Exchange Blog I checked some major world currencies against the dollar this morning. One US dollar buys the following: £0.498828 (British pound), CN$1.1227 (Canadian dollar), €0.73524 (Euro), AUS$1.19574 (Australian dollar). These figures are effectively putting a stranglehold on Americans vacationing abroad. They add up the airfare, hotel or vacation rental charges, cost of a rental car ... More About: Home , Rate , Chang , Chan 1, 2, 3 |
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