House Sitting Home Page

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Welcome to my House Sitting Homepage, which includes links to all of my house sitting pages and articles.

This is a useful starting point if you want to find out about us as house sitters, or are looking to become a house sitter yourself. It also includes helpful links to home owners who are looking into engaging a house sitter.

It’s basically all of our house sitting information in one place. 

Click on any of the links on the right to find out more information about us as House Sitters. You can view our profile, our references, and see a summary of our skills and abilities.

Looking for a House Sitter?

Meet your house sitters 
Skills & Abilities
Our References

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Our House Sitting Assignments

This collection of articles was written during our various house sitting assignments. We’ve looked after houses, cats and dogs and write about our house sitting adventures here. These articles aren’t just about the ins and outs of being a house sitter, they includes observations about the process, as well as the new neighborhoods we get to discover.

OUR HOUSE SITTING ASSIGNMENTS ARTICLES

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As well as our experience as house sitters, we’ve also seen the house sitting process from the other angle. We’re home owners who have had house sitters looking after our home in Turkey, so know from experience how nerve wracking it can be to have a stranger looking after your home for the first time. This experience of seeing the house sitting process from both angles, really helps us to be more empathetic house sitters.

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HOUSE SITTING 101

What is House Sitting?

Not sure what house sitting is all about?Read this article to see what’s in it for the House Sitter and Home Owner.

Who pays Utilities during a House Sit?

Every single house sitting assignment is unique, but this article includes some guidelines to help during the house sitting negotiation process.

5 House Sitter Questions answered by The House Sitting Couple

There’s a few house sitter questions that nearly always get asked of this house sitting couple. In this guest post provided by James from The House Sitting Couple, they give a run down of what those five frequently asked questions are.

BECOMING A HOUSE SITTER

5 Steps to House Sitting Membership

A summary of 5 steps you’ll need to complete to sign up for a House Sitting Listing Service, and tips on how to be proactive in your search for a house sitting assignment.

20+ Questions to ask before you begin your Pet Sitting Assignment

Before you begin your house sitting assignment, take the time to ensure you’re prepared and informed enough about the needs and welfare of any pets in your charge.

Top 5 ways for finding a House Sit assignment

A summary for the 5 main ways to find your ideal House Sitting assignment. If you’re a new House Sitter, this list will provide an introduction on where to start your search.

Article Round Up about becoming an House Sitter

Round up of articles from House Sitters. Learn from other people’s experience. 

Trusted House Sitters

Website: http://www.trustedhousesitters.com

3 Month and Annual Plans, as well as a combo House Sitter/Home Owner plan available.

Andy & Rachel discovered house sitting in Spain and realized a need for a comprehensive website for home / pet owners and sitters. In October 2010 they launched TrustedHousesitters.com website!

House Carers

Website: https://www.housecarers.com/

Free listing service for Home Owners. Annual membership for House Sitters.

House Carers are a worldwide house sitting directory based in Newcastle Australia that started matching Homeowners with House Sitters in October 2000.

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E-books about House Sitting

If you’re new to House Sitting, this collection of ebooks provides you with a collection of tips and reference materials to get you started on your path to being a busy house sitter.

(If you’ve published a book about house sitting .. post a link in the comments box at the bottom of the page)

Globetrotting Girls House Sitting ebook

Visit Amazon to get a sample of their book for free or buy and download it.

Hecktic Travels House Sitting ebook

Rick & Colleen’s House Sitting ebook

Visit Amazon and get a sample of their book for free or buy and download it

House Sitting Course on Udemy

If you like learning by watching rather than reading, this Udemy House Sitting course could be for you. It’s a collection of 67 short instructional videos about the entire end-to-end House Sitting process. Watch from beginning to end, or jump about to the sections that you’re most interested in. 

Some of the lectures have accompanying worksheets or supporting documents to download.

4 thoughts on “House Sitting Home Page

  1. Hi
    Came across your site and love your content. We are global nomads, long term travellers and avid house sitters who spend our entire life traveling and working our way around the world. We’ve just created a new (and the first of it’s type), online house sitting course on the Udemy.com platform. Here you can check the content.
    https://www.udemy.com/house-sitting/
    We’d love to send you a FREE link to review it and maybe include in your resources (e-books section).
    Tried to find a link to send this personally but couldn’t find a contact page.
    Hope to hear back from you.

  2. When I initially left a comment I appear to have clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now each time a comment is added I receive four emails with the exact same comment. There has to be an easy method you can remove me from that service? Kudos!

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