How housesitting helped me move country
“I sleep around. Usually with animals,” Kelly Hayes-Raitt jokes in the opening of her book How to Become a Housesitter: Insider Tips from the HouseSit Diva. From housesits in countries Hayes-Raitt has never heard of to sitting in her hometown, “I’ve been travelling and housesitting full-time for 12 years straight – until last month”, she writes […]
A housesitters essential skills
Are you a pet owner looking for a housesitter to care for your pets and home? Or are you a housesitter keen to expand your experience of housesitting? Either way you may find this article useful to learn what are the housesitters essential skills. What are the housesitters 5 essential skills? For the house Sitter […]
A quick dogsitting in London guide
If you are dogsitting in London, you best explore a few tips and tricks below to bear in mind when minding dogs in a housesit. Minding dogs in the capital For people who have a lot of experience with dogs, it may be tempting to think you know better than the pet owner you are […]
What to do while housesitting
As a would be housesitter you might wondering – what might I do while housesitting? Well there are so many opportunities as any experienced house and petsitter will tell you. What is more you can travel the world on a fixed budget and even earn while you are on the go. Read on to get […]
London house sitting – London calling!
Many long term housesitters and petsitters will tell you they love either rural housesits or city housesits. London house sitting can have a remarkable draw for both types of housesitter. Housesitting in London offers a fantastic diversity of experiences, including and most importantly pet care, for animal lovers, and an exciting urban setting. Read on […]
Free house sitting websites or free housesitters – Which is best?
If you find the use of a petsitting and housesitting website a fab addition to your holiday planning read on. It is likely you take holidays, and perhaps have pets and maybe you even have a second home. You will likely ask these trusted house sitters and petsitters to care for your property and pets […]
Why keep pets at home with petsitters?
As every pet owner knows minding your pets yourself is a joy. However, when you have to find pet care for your pet friends when you go away that opens a set of challenges. The questions most people worry about are around whether or not to keep pets at home, or to find an alternative […]
Travelling and housesitting in Spain – Here’s what I love
From time to time we invite one of our housesitters to offer a blog about their experience of housesitting and travel. Tiera St Claire has been a housesitter with Housesitmatch for a few years how and always seems to deliver a wonderful blog enriched by her love of the location. In this article there is […]
What is a housesit? Read on to learn more
A housesit is an arrangement between two parties, homeowner and housesitter. The arrangement is usually made to ensure the home and also perhaps pets, of one, are cared for by the other. At Housesit Match we facilitate the housesitting arrangements between two such parties. We operate through the internet and so we can connect people […]
House sitters in Cornwall? Yes there are!
There are some places in the world that attract a lot of visitors, regularly. None more so in the UK than Cornwall. And yet homeowners in Cornwall are always worried in case they fail to find house sitters in Cornwall. Well, from personal experience I can tell you that if you post a housesit for […]