Keeping pets is good for you – Here’s why
Many of us have considered keeping pets at home, or indeed have enjoyed pets at home for both company and entertainment value. As a pet owner aside from needing to plan ahead to ensure you have good house and petsitters when you have to go away, there are only benefits. Moreover, did you know that […]
Keeping Your Home Secure While on Vacation – Helpful Hints
As a homeowner when planning a short holiday or long vacation you need to plan care for your property and pets. Keeping your home secure and your pets happy and safe is always a priority as in many of our lives they count among our most precious possessions. While many of us are happy to […]
Prepare for Housesitters – Ways to Declutter Your House
When you have committed to having pet sitters or housesitters to stay in your home to care for your pets and property when you are away, it is good to declutter your home as a way to prepare for housesitters. The main rooms that get busy with home traffic should be cleaned and tidied, and […]
Top Tips on Selling an Inherited House
If you are lucky enough to inherit a house from a relative or friend it can often create challenges as well as opportunities. If this makes you a first time homeowner though perhaps not yet ready to move into the property, then consider finding housesitters through HouseSitMatch or a similar housesitting network. Housesitters are free […]
Home Insurance – Things you need to know
Many of our homeowners on HousesSitMatch manage their home insurance automatically and almost by remote control, as a way to cover a major asset in their financial portfolio. However, there are many small standard rules to home insurance that you need to be aware of. In fact experts advise that you actually proactively manage your […]
Protect your home in Winter
Protect Your Home Before Winter Sets In In the Northern hemisphere we are already feeling the changing seasons. It’ is definitely time to protect your home in Winter, before the cold weather really sets in. There are various ways to do this ahead of the harsh weather. We can insulate, make our windows, walls and […]
HouseSitChat with Kemkem
Recently, one of our home and pet owners KemKem author of the travel blog Nextbiteoflife.com joined in our Twitter series #HouseSitChat. #HouseSitChat is a Twitter chat about housesitting that takes place on a weekly basis. By answering some of our Questions on housesitting from a homeowner perspective she helps us understand her worries as a […]
Housesitters or Property Management Companies
At Housesitmatch we are often asked if housesitters could do the job of a property management company. The issue of housesitters and property management comes up quite regularly, and we usually respond with a horses for courses response. The reason that people need housesitters is often related to the care for pets in the home […]
Best of Two Worlds – Alarm System and Housesitters
At Housesitmatch.com we have long been exponents for home security through the presence of housesitters keeping the home occupied. We also believe in the ideal combination of having an alarm system and housesitters together. When you leave your home for any period of time, it becomes a target for criminals. That’s why it’s essential to […]
What is housesitting? Q&A with Founder of HouseSitMatch
Occasionally, Lamia Walker our founder is asked to take part in an interview about how and why she founded HouseSitMatch.com and to explain ‘What is Housesitting’. Recently, Lamia was asked to take part in her first Twitter Q&A which was a fun and rapid fire set of interactions with some great people keen to learn […]