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March 2011
We are a french family, we are currently in North Berkeley for 2010-11 school
year. We would like to find another home exchange for the next school year
(2011-12). We put ads on craigslist, online, at the French Department of the
University of Berkeley, at ''Alliance Francaise'', , on our car and on the wall of
''cheese board'' ...
Have you some ideas on where to advertise, thank you all, Claire
We had good luck with
http://www.sabbaticalhomes.com/
Karen
Hi, we haven't done it, but these are a couple of resources
that friends have shared with us (they used these and were
happy with them):
Home exchange
http://www.homeexchange.com/?gclid=CMmww8j-9qcCFRRqgwodPhZvbg
Sabbatical Homes
http://sabbaticalhomes.com/
Good luck!
Eva
Aug 2010
Hi,
Now that we have (mostly)finished our home improvement
projects, i'd like to join a house/vacation exchange site
and begin taking our vacations that way. I have done some
looking, and there are a ton of sites. One piece of advice i
have read is to only join companies that charge a fee...that
that somehow weeds out certain issues. I'd love to know if
you have swapped homes, with what company, how you like the
service, if they have customer support your happy with, and
any other advice regarding this type of vacation. Thanks!
cris
We're listed with www.homeexchange.com. We've been with
them for 2 years, and we've been very very pleased with it
all! The hardest part is getting your information/photos up
on the site, since you want to spend some time on this (this
is how people decide whether you're worth contacting or
not). It's not technically difficult, just takes some time
to do a nice job, have a nice accurate write up etc. We
spent 3 weeks in Copenhagen, and a week in Seattle, both
just great exchanges where we not only had comfy places, but
felt like we were able to really meet some nice families
along the way. What a great way to travel. We're hoping
for Spain next summer, and NYC or Chicago this fall, and I
have no doubt that it will happen, there are that many
listings. It's just a matter of sorting through to get to
what you want, and being open to the possibilities. We get
great offers all the time, and they generally are pretty
focused (eg people in Denmark noticed that we listed
Copenhagen as a top destination wish, and specificially
contacted us when they wanted to come to Berkeley). Home
Exchange fan
May 2010
I am interested in exploring the idea of doing a home exchange
vacation. I know there are several on line organizations for this,
but wondered if anyone has great recommendations for one in
particular. In this case we are probably thinking of exchanging
within the US, although possibly sometime would be interested in an
international exchange.
Thanks!
We have posted our house on www.homeexchange.com and have done some
AMAZING home exchanges.
You look at the site for free, but if you want to post info on your
house, it costs around $50 a year.
We have exchanged to Australia, Denmark, London, Paris, Northern Italy.
There are also lots of exchanges within the U.S.
They have a good search engine making it very easy to pick a
destination and find people who are interested in SF area or California.
Love this site, and we will home exchange for the rest of our lives!
Cam
Oct 2006
My family is hoping to visit Spain and Portugal next Summer 2007. We'd like to try
doing home a house swap for our Berkeley home. Does anyone have experience to
share or advice about home exchange services, or friends in those places who might
be interested in coming to the Bay Area next Summer?
Thanks
Donna G.
We've done several European home exchanges. We're hooked! There
are lots of WEB sites out there for it. Our favorite is
HomeExchange.com. We have an ad for our house on that site and
we get lots of requests for exchanges (20 - 30 a year?). Lots of
people want to come here! I think an ad will cost you about $40
a year, but if you find some houses you'd be interested in
exchanging for, you may not need to post an ad. You don't have
to pay to contact someone. We tried to find an exchange in
Northern Spain two summers ago, and couldn't find one, even
looking on other sites, so we ended up in Southern France
instead, but there were lots of choices for Southern Spain. I
haven't checked Portugal. Enjoy your search!
Home Exchange Fan
April 2000
Greetings parents--
I am looking for agencies or websites for international
housing exchanges that you have used successfully, eg.
a listing of houses, or people interested in short-term
house swaps. I have heard such agencies exist, but have
found very little on the web or elsewhere.
I do not want a vacation house rental agency, but someone
who puts individuals in contact with each other.
Utimately, I'd like to exchange our lovely Berkeley digs
with someone in sunny, beachside Vacationland for a
couple of weeks. Any clues?
Claire
Search for "home exchange" on the web and you'll find lots of sites
there are many of them listed on the web. we had very good experience with
an organization based in s.f. called intervac. (415) 435-3497 betty
bb
I just joined www.digsville.com,
which has listings of people
around the world who are open to housing exchange. They have free
membership if you sign up within the next month or something. They just
started up so they are eager for new listings. There is some contest
going on right now where if you recruit the greatest number of new members
you win a digital camera or something, so if you mention you're joining
because of this posting, that'd be a plus for me. I feel a *little* bit
funny about it, but I wouldn't have posted the info except that someone
just asked for a recommendation on this topic. They do look reasonable,
and I did join because I like the whole idea of housing exchange....
Joyce
re home exchanges: I can't vouch for these, but here are 3 sources I've been
keeping for future use: Intervac Intl 800 756 4663; Homelink USA 800 638
3841; Intl Home Exchange Network, www.homexchange.com.
Linda
Elizabeth
www.homelink.org is very good, very well organized, and one of the biggest.
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