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Home Exchange Memberships – Two Years For The Price Of One
We are currently offering a really great deal on Membership Fees. Until further notice, everyone joining and paying $39 will receive a membership for two full years instead of one. Similarly, anyone who is already a member and pays the normal $18 to ...
Home Exchange Photographs Are Important
This is an old chestnut, and I keep hauling it out, dusting it down and repeating it year after year, but it really is extremely important that you make the effort to add several eye catching photographs to your home exchange listing. At ExchangeHome...
Home Exchange Photographs Are Important
This is an old chestnut, and I keep hauling it out, dusting it down and repeating it year after year, but it really is extremely important that you make the effort to add several eye catching photographs to your home exchange listing. At ExchangeHome...
I Want To Exchange My Million Dollar Home …!
This is statement I read and hear a lot, and it’s usually followed with—”of course, I only want to home exchange with something of the same value”! At that point I usually give a sigh of resignation. As any realtor will tell y...
Replying To Home Exchange Email Contacts
Unfortunately, 2009 doesn’t seem to be starting any different than previous years. Over the past few weeks we’ve received several complaints from members who have sent out home exchange inquiry emails, only to receive no response. Thankfu...
Home Exchangers Should Not Be In A Hurry
Normally, to get the best bargains, flight tickets need to be booked quite a long way in advance. Today, virtually everyone is watching the pennies so it's highly unlikely that too many home exchanges will be set up if the time is so short, only expe...
Home Exchangers Linked With Renters In Recent Scam Reports
I find it particularly unfortunate that a recent flurry of reports appearing all over the Internet referencing the age old “payment by cashier’s check” scam that targets vacation rental owners, are also frequently citing home exchan...
Home Exchange Memberships With Multiple Clubs
Several times recently we’ve had visitors to the ExchangeHomes.com home exchange web site who have taken the trouble to add listings of their own, complete with great, detailed descriptions and lots of bright, illustrative photographs, but the...
First Time Home Exchangers Struggling
Earlier this week I received a phone call from a lady needing advice. She had joined ExchangeHomes.com back in July and sent out more than thirty contact emails trying to set up a home exchange, but, she claimed, immediately the people she was contac...
Home Exchange I.D. Should Always Be Included
It’s strange how very often we seem to receive batches of emails and phone calls all relating to a similar subject. The current point being raised addresses members who choose to conduct their correspondence outside of the the web site, but com...
Giveaways For New And Renewing Home Exchangers
I know there are a great many people out there thinking about home exchanging, but never confident enough to actually make the commitment of joining a home exchange organization. Well, I’m going to make it a whole lot easier for the next 50 me...
Associate Home Exchange Membership Option Removed
Back at the beginning of February when our major web site re-write / upgrade went live, we introduced a two-tiered level of home exchange memberships. This is one change I had always resisted, in fact anyone who has read my previous posts on the subj...
Home Exchange Arranged Display Option
I’ve just been checking through some of the home exchange offers listed on the ExchangeHomes.com web site. Either ExchangeHomes.com members are completely ignoring the option to mark their listings as “Exchange Arranged”, or many es...
Internet Access In Home Exchange Homes
For some time now, our ExchangeHomes.com web site has offered two distinct alternatives when describing the Internet access available in the home you’re offering for home exchange: Dial Up High Speed Unless listings are edited by ...
Home Exchange Associate Members
We’ve had a few issues lately with unhappy home exchange Associate Members, emailing to ask why their memberships have disappeared. They have attempted to log in and received a “Membership Not Recognized” error. Since adding the Ass...
Home Exchange Agreements / Contracts
I was somewhat disappointed to read a post this morning on another home exchange blog referencing an email the author had received from a New York home exchanger requesting information about putting together a ‘Home Exchange Contract’R...
Home Exchange and Free Email Addresses
After a recent mailing to our list of expiring home exchange members, I (as usual) checked our email client for the inevitable list of undeliverable mail. I was suddenly struck by five emails unable to be delivered because the owner’s mail box...
Home Exchange Membership Amendments
When, early in February, we went on-line with the major overhaul to our web site, we bowed to pressure from many members and visitors and introduced a two-tier membership system, effectively allowing non-publishing—or “Associate”...
Successful Home Exchanging - Finalizing Your Exchange
Part Seven of the Series This post will conclude my series of posts walking you through the entire process of selecting your home exchange club, setting up your listing, making contacts and, most important, finalizing the home exchange arrangements. ...
Successful Home Exchanging - Contacting Fellow Home Exchangers
Okay, so you’ve joined the home exchange club of your choice—hopefully ExchangeHomes.com—and set up your listing, including adding some illustrative photographs. Now it’s time to begin contacting fellow members. Don’t ma...
Successful Home Exchanging - Good Photographs Are Important
Part Five of the Series To help our Home Exchange members, I asked a photographer friend for a few basic tips for amateurs hoping to produce some attractive, illustrative pictures to include in their home exchange listings. His words of wisdom follow...
Successful Home Exchanging - Additional Listing Tactics
Part Four of the Series It’s worth remembering that there are several ways you can “dress up” your basic home exchange listing. Here are some suggestions: Set up your own personal web site dedicated to home exchanging. Have section...
Successful Home Exchanging - Setting Up Your Listing
Part Thee of a Series. The way in which you set up your online listing for the world to see is often pivotal to your home exchange success. You need to clearly describe your home and the amenities it has to offer, then you need to introduce your fami...
Successful Home Exchanging - More About Selecting A Club
This is part two of a series I’ve been asked to write covering successful home exchange procedures. In my last post I began working on the process of selecting the home exchange club you decide to sign up with. Here are a few more thoughts about th...
Successful Home Exchanging - Selecting a Club
This is part one of a much requested series I’ve been asked to write covering successful home exchange procedures. The first thing you will need to do is select a club. It’s very inadvisable to even think about cutting out this comparativ...
A Guide to Setting Up Your Home Exchange
Despite the fact that ExchangeHomes.com has always offered what we call our “Hints and Advice book” in PDF format, for either reading online, or downloading to your computer, where it can be printed, if desired, I’m still frequently asked to in...
A Home Exchange Membership Involves Hard Work
Home Exchange Blog: We make a point of recording all the activity of our members in various administrative logs. Not for any purpose other than to record how they navigate and use the web site. It has often proved to be a very useful tool when planni...
Rate Your Past Home Exchange Partners
With the launch of our brand new web site, one new feature we’re offering is the opportunity for you to ‘rate’, or leave feedback on your past home exchange partners. When you think about it, cumulatively there must be many thousand...
Home Exchange Listings Without Photographs
With the launch of our new home exchange web site, we introduced a new search option that allows both visitors and members to search our database of listings and specify that their results should only show listings that have photographs. We included ...
Lifetime Home Exchange Memberships
Recently I’ve noticed a few negative conclusions an associate company has arrived at regarding multiple year and lifetime memberships. I agree wholeheartedly with every observation she has made, unmanaged and unsupervised any membership that ex...
