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Guide to home exchange

Top 10 Tips That Will Help You Find Your Next Home Exchange

You've already completed your listing, sent messages to other Members, but haven’t found your next home exchange? Don't worry: these top 10 tips from exchange experts will help

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Guide to home exchange

What makes HomeExchange a once-in-a-lifetime experience

HomeExchange is a community of 400,000 members and just as many opportunities for unforgettable holidays. In this article, we want to honor the hospitality of our Members which makes our home exchanges such a special experience.

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Sustainable Tourism

Earth Day Special: HomeExchange Members’ Sustainable Practices

Earth Day is celebrated on April 22, and is an annual global event that promotes the protection of the environment and natural resources. Exchanging homes is a form of sustainable tourism based on

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Community Q&A Session #1

On March 13th 2019 we launched the first Community Q&A Session for many of our English-speaking Members.  Members were allowed to ask a question in advance to receive live answers, while

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Sustainable Tourism

Travel like a local with home exchange

Discover how to travel like a local with home exchange for an authentic experience while exploring the globe and saving money. The benefits and ease of utilizing HomeExchange to find stays while you travel will change your life.

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How YOU can make an exchange

Joining HomeExchange comes at no cost! You only pay when you make an exchange. The best way to secure an exchange is to have a complete profile. With the new HomeExchange, you no longer have to wish to visit places, you can get out there and travel.

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Guide to home exchange

Get to know HomeExchange: Finalize your house swap

Ready to start planning your house swaps through the HomeExchange platform? Here is your step-by-step guide to finalizing your home exchange.

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GuestPoints: An Easy Way to Exchange Homes

At HomeExchange, we want to make the process of exchanging your home as easy as possible. The same was true with HomeExchange's old sister brand GuesttoGuest. Before merging to create the

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Find your home’s best angle

> The right pictures of your home can transform a “maybe…” into an “Oh, my gosh! We can’t wait!” You know it when you see it, the pictures can tell you everything

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The Humanity of HomeExchange: 4 Exchanges in 1 Trip

The best part, for us at least, is that HomeExchange adds a very intimate, personal, human touch to travel that easily gets lost or overlooked.

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Summer isn't the end of travel season! How to plan your next vacation

Our tips to avoid the back-to-school and work blues and keep the travels going. Even though summer's over, the vacations don't have to be!

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Have Balloon, will travel!

> Searching for an Exchange using a Balloon just got a whole lot less complicated. Since we introduced the program of Balloon exchanges, we have been receiving messages from members asking for a

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After the “yes”; what happens next?

> You have registered on HomeExchange [https://www.homeexchange.com/] and started imagining all those places in the world you’d love to visit. You have gotten hooked, little-by-little and, after several inquiries

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Discover a Last-Minute Vacation Home Swap

Looking to get into “vacation mode” but can’t quite make a long-distance trip? Don’t worry! Instead of taking a ton of time off, explore some locations that are easy to reach and home exchange!

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How to be the best home exchange guest

What makes a quality home exchange guest? Here are some tips to get you thinking.

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    HomeExchange
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Take the challenge: Can you increase your response rate?

Response rates are an important part of the HomeExchange community.  Learn how to manage yours to increase your chances of finding a home swap.

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Talk to Someone Who Has Done a Home Exchange

Do you have questions or need a second opinion about doing a home exchange? Ask questions and receive feedback from some of our most trusted and experienced members, the HomeExchange Chat Ambassadors. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Pet-Friendly Travel Experiences

Unleash your expectations of traveling with pets. With HomeExchange, you can forget about kennels, finding a pet-sitter, convincing a friend to check on them or the crazy fees to board your animal-family member

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Your Long-Term Exchanges Planning Guide

To live in another city or a different country is a dream for many people. It offers the opportunity to experience another culture or to explore in ways that a shorter trip doesn’

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5 Tips to find a last-minute home exchange

We get it; time is a limited commodity. The clock keeps ticking and all of a sudden your last Exchange feels like it was forever ago. That might be because it was. Project:

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Travel Dreams Do Come True — Home Exchange and Find Out

Here are some tips on how you can maximize the potential of a truly extraordinary home exchange.

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Plan For a Vacation with HomeExchange

The earlier you plan for a vacation, the better ! Planning vacation time is a simple, but meaningful way to improve happiness, boost morale, prevent burnout, and reduce stress. But the virtues of planning

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Lessons Learned Traveling With Kids

Parenting tips while on vacation, from a dad traveling the world with two small children. Chris M. is a Toronto-based travel writer for Baby & Life [http://www.babyandlife.com/]. He and his

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Home Exchanging 101: It All Begins With a Search

A world of possibilities awaits to help you find your dream house swap. From contemporary to cozy, take some time to refine your home exchange search.

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Make Your Home HomeExchange Ready

Welcoming new friends to your home is one of the most thrilling and rewarding parts of a Home Exchange journey. At the same time, many people new to HomeExchange find preparing their home

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