Planning Dutch Tulips for my house and garden
If like me you have spent much of the last three months mooching about the house cooking and watching YouTube videos on growing vegetables you are probably ready for a change of scene. You might even be planning your next holiday and looking for housesitters to help you. As an entrepreneur and homeowner and sometime […]
Keeping a healthy garden – 10 Top Tips
Many homeowners with gardens find regular maintenance routines to keep their gardens well presented. If you are a new homeowner you may still be working out your maintenance routines. Here are some excellent top tips to help you keep a healthy and presentable garden. 10 Ways to Keep Your Garden Healthy Gardens make your backyard […]
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 […]