Homeowners – What Makes Real Estate Investment Attractive?
As a homeowner you are a property investor and you are engaged in real estate investment. Once you have a certain capital in the property as an asset it can help you in your goal to secure more property as real estate investment perhaps for rental or refurbishment and quick sale to realise the value […]
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 […]
Modern Day Home Security for Peace of Mind Travelling
Maintaining security in your home is more important today than it has ever been. Modern day home security has so many advantages for the homeowner with the rapid evolution of tech, the Internet of Things and programmable security applications and locks for your home that you control in your home and remotely. Read this blog […]
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 […]
Mom’s Top Tips for Finding a Good Pet HouseSitter
Whether you are planning a trip away from home or a moving to a new home you may need to find someone to look after your pets during that period of change. The person in the family in our experience at HouseSitMatch who most often enjoys that task is the Mom of the family unit. […]
Top 7 Housesitter Cleaning Tips for Easy Clean Up
Most homeowners and pet owners organise themselves to keep a clean and tidy home, whether they have help of do it themselves. We can always learn more about how to do both the deep cleaning or the easy clean up with greater efficiency and who better to learn from than full time housesitters and petsitters […]
Dog Car Safety: Things NOT To Do
Whether we are dog owners or petsitters caring for dogs on a HousesitMatch assignment, it is important to be mindful of dog car safety for the well being of our canine pets. Naturally, your practice will vary depending on the pet’s size, age and character. However, there are some essential guidelines that are important to […]
Top Tips for Taking Good Care of the Fish
Care of the fish in any home is a much overlooked theme, but all the more important for it. As a housesitting platform at HouseSitMatch we occasionally get asked by housesitters if there are guidelines for the good care of the fish in a housesitting assignment. Homeowners are usually pretty good at preparing guidelines and […]
Housesitters and Home Renovations
Home renovations can be either small or epic in scale. Managing those redevelopments can be stressful and can infringe somewhat on your life. One solution is to find housesitters to be present on the property while you are elsewhere, and the building contractors are at work. At HouseSit Match we have found sitters for homeowners […]
Make Home Energy Efficient – Reduce Bills
Top Tips – How to improve energy efficiency at home and reduce bills With Winter well and truly underway most of us use more heat and energy at home. We may look for ways to make our home energy efficient and to reduce our bills. This is important whether we are at home or if […]