How to draw a house sitter, and you will never pay for accommodation

How to draw a house sitter, and you will never pay for accommodation -

Many readers were interested about house-sitting in learning more, the method the watch houses of the people, while they are away for free accommodation in exchange. I've never done it, but Dalene and Pete of Hecktic trips do it all the time, so I took them to talk more about the subject. Have fun!

As I write this, I am sitting in a comfortable leather chair in front of three large windows. From my perspective, tall pines are covered from a nearby lake in healthy green moss and shimmering water. An old and plump gray cat, the king of this log cabin, warmed my feet.

This is my home for three months, and my husband and I live here for free. We pay rent, no additional costs, and we have a vehicle available.

We are house-sitting.

We travel to ensure pets and homes while their owners are off on their own travels. Not only that, it is extremely low to keep our costs low, there is an intimate experience in a new locale with complete immersion in a local neighborhood.

Most of our last three years were traveling spent house-sitting to save us $ 30,000 overnight expenses far above and allows us an incredible variety of travel experiences we could had otherwise never enjoyed

But this kind of travel is not only for long-term nomads like us. Chances are for all types of travelers available. Jobs range from weekends to years; our shortest house-sit was nine days and our longest was six months.

How to become a house sitter

If you have never before house-sat, the best place to take one's own connections. Query-family, friends and colleagues about the possibility. Chances are good that someone will be in your network soon away from home. House-sit for them to learn the ropes.

With at least one good house sitter reference under your belt, you are to convince the world over have a stranger a better chance that you are worthy of their trust. There are several good house-sitting websites are homeowners with house sitters fit (all membership fees):

TrustedHousesitters.com ($ 60 annual fee) - The largest site on the web, and also the fastest growing with the best functionality. It's hard sitting on UK and European home, but also gaining ground in Australia and North America

MindMyHouse.com ($ 20 annual fee.) - To participate Low Fee, sitting a good number of the house, and a good laid-out site. Jobs are mainly in North America and Europe

Housecarers.com ($ 55 annual fee.) - Many good house sitting with a focus on Australia, New Zealand and North America, but a bad site structure that is difficult to navigate

Caretaker.org ($ 30 annual fee). - We have on this page were not successful, but know others who have. Note that this is the only site where you can not sit through the available scroll House online. You have to pay the annual fee, and the possibilities are sent email newsletters.

When reviewing the websites above listings carefully choose according to your wishes based on location, time and other needs. The key to one, is the flexibility in your plans: instead of sitting on a Search House in North London for the first week in August, an extension search to the whole of London and for a week during a time of the month your chances increase very. And if you saw some house sitting that are right up your alley, you should have these basics in place:

A killer Profile - This is your face to all potential homeowners, and if it is well written and up-to-date, you can own a house you have, contact, rather than their job posting (us, this has happened once). Activities include:

• Experience: House Sitting or previous homeowners
• Pets: vaginal your love for all things furry or scaly, slimy and, if applicable. The vast majority of house sitting pet care include any kind
• Special skills :. Do you speak foreign languages? Do you have a green thumb, or are you handy with tools? Be sure that those that outline in your profile
• enthusiasm: .. Many, many enthusiasm for these newfound "career" goes a long way

opening e-mail - when applying for a particular job, you have the option to open on every web page with a message that will accompany your profile if the prospective homeowner sent. highlight the key to a good opening shortly while important information, and of course with a lot of enthusiasm.

Look. On the listing and design your email for specific details For example, if they have a dog, make a comment about how cute he is and that Schnauzers your favorite creatures on four legs are

Speedy Be -. If the six-week households sit opportunity in Manhattan was written, I shall be applied within the first few minutes of them are at home. I had emails exchanged and shared in one day a virtual handshake over Skype with the homeowner within the first hour. Attractive house sits quick. to be one of the first, they get much of can apply to increase your chances. Subscribe to know for e-mail notifications in your desired areas or follow on social media along one of the first to be, what is available

References -. The most important thing that a homeowner is considered it your references. Have quality people lined up to sponsor you, and if you have no previous house-sitting experience, consider the following questions :. Owner, old neighbors or former bosses, or someone who can attest to your character, reliability and trustworthiness

leads A good indication of another job and another good reference. And when it starts to pile up, potential homeowners are very inclined to work with you, and subsequent orders will be much easier to obtain. One of the house-sitting sites (Trusted Housesitters) makes reference letter online to be accommodated, but you should otherwise have compiled and distributed with ease.

Be sure to ask a lot of questions. In the beginning it's just overly excited about the prospect of somewhere to live for virtually free to obtain exotic and the finer details of the work forgotten. Ask the homeowner a lot of questions: Can you have guests? Can you leave the property overnight? Is there a vehicle? Will it be Internet? You do not want to be with rules or surprises out of the blue, when you arrive

As a good house sitter to be

There is no question :. House-sitting is a task that must be taken seriously. to stay in return for a free place, you are asked to take care of someone worldly possessions and perhaps their loved furbabies.

We have dogs chased through muddy fields. Located a half-eaten rat courtesy of the same muddy field lackeys. an evening spent trolling through dark streets in Harlem, looking for an escaped fat cat. We dealt with a dead chicken by "to send it down the river" on the advice of a neighbor in Ireland. We have cleaned up after torrential rain hammered our Caribbean home.

Most of the time you will be able to kick back and enjoy your happiness, but there will be moments when you have to work for them. to get

key sits to a repeated number of house is an excellent job every time to do and stack virtuous references.

• Treat the house with the greatest respect. Bring it to the homeowner as good - or better -. Shape as when you arrived
• Stick to the homeowner policies for correspondence, like e-mail, to treat Click for pets, etc.
• Have deal with negative situations prepared Dogs like to chase through muddy fields and disposal of a dead chicken. Bad things can (and probably) go wrong at some point. Be sure to have emergency contact information at hand, and to be honest with the homeowner about anything that comes.

We have our share of difficult moments had been able to, but the incredible experience that we have gained by house-sitting, they have far outweighed. In return, to hunt for the dogs and the disposal of rats, we discovered firsthand how the Turkish the most generous and hospitable people in the world are. While after a violent storm in Honduras cleaning we became close friends with a local lady, and the godfather of her child were later named. In Ireland, we explored freely through the halls of the century gentlemen, we were charged with taking and even our own swirling ballroom of the mansion.

We are always a little surprised that more people do not take over, or use of house session presents opportunities. It is not just about the money-saving aspect, but the ability to live like a local in a new corner of the world. Whether you are nine days or nine months away, this can be a good way to do something different during your trip. It's our favorite way to travel, and we bet that it could be yours too.

Dalene Heck and her husband Pete behind the blog Hecktic trips that since selling their belongings in 09 their travel history. You have an e-book on house-sitting, which still contains more juicy goodness, including examples of successful profiles and cover letter, a three-page checklist for everything to look in a new house-sitting job and a discount recently written to their favorite house-sitting website

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