If a ski trip to Aspen, Colorado, a getaway in Australia, or an exotic trip to the Orient all seem out of reach, perhaps you should consider exchanging homes. With Home Exchange: Your Guide to Free Accommodations you will have all the latest information you need to successfully trade homes. "More than 200,000 families and individuals from around the world are estimated to have enjoyed home exchanging last year," according to the Christian Science Monitor. This book gives you all the instructions and details you need to arrange for your home exchange, including:
-How to find other home exchangers
-The best way to make initial contact
-Handling home exchange details: pet care, house quirks, phone use
-Information on liability and medical insurance
-Successful living in someone else's house (and vice versa)
-Exchanging automobiles and much more Home Exchange also includes helpful information in the shared experiences of past home exchangers. There are many funny stories that include tips on what not to do and advice on what to do to make the exchange as smooth as possible. "It gives one hope to read" about all of the trusting people, says the BookPage. Staying in other people's homes not only gives you the chance to be submersed in the culture by meeting , and perhaps befriending, the neighbors, grocery shopping, and living like the native citizens, but also saves you money. The authors, Bill and Mary Barbour, have traveled to Europe, Africa, South America, the Near East , the Far East , as well as most of the United States and "reckon that home swapping has saved them a grand total of consider staying at home away from home.
-How to find other home exchangers
-The best way to make initial contact
-Handling home exchange details: pet care, house quirks, phone use
-Information on liability and medical insurance
-Successful living in someone else's house (and vice versa)
-Exchanging automobiles and much more Home Exchange also includes helpful information in the shared experiences of past home exchangers. There are many funny stories that include tips on what not to do and advice on what to do to make the exchange as smooth as possible. "It gives one hope to read" about all of the trusting people, says the BookPage. Staying in other people's homes not only gives you the chance to be submersed in the culture by meeting , and perhaps befriending, the neighbors, grocery shopping, and living like the native citizens, but also saves you money. The authors, Bill and Mary Barbour, have traveled to Europe, Africa, South America, the Near East , the Far East , as well as most of the United States and "reckon that home swapping has saved them a grand total of consider staying at home away from home.
