House-sitting

Tips for Being a Full-Time Housesitter

You are hoping to be a full-time housesitter, which is great! It’s a good way to travel, but the job requires you to change the way you do things, and the following tips should help you become a full-time sitter. Tips for Being a Full-Time Housesitter Learn to Love Pets One way of increasing the […]

Step By Step Guide – How To Become A House Sitter

A House Sitting promotion Step By Step Guide – How To Become A House Sitter We have been invited by HousesitMatch to show you just how easy it is to become a house and pet sitter with our Step By Step Guide on how you can become a House Sitter, just like us. With many […]

Going Away? Find The Perfect House Sitter

the perfect house sitter promotion Going Away? Find The Perfect House Sitter You are about to go for your next vacation or business trip and are wondering who will remain behind to watch over your home or take care of your pets, and you need to find the perfect house sitter. This event can be […]

House sitting – Why You Should Use A Professional And Avoid Using Relatives

It is heading to that time of the year when you have to go on that long vacation. Yes, Christmas is coming!  But what about your furry friends, or leaving your home unattended? You already know your destination and the number of days you will be gone. However, you don’t know if you should hire […]

5 Important Facts About House And Pet Sitting

A Homeowners Guide to Finding the Right House Sitter. House and pet sitting is a service that is very convenient for busy and adventurous singles, couples and families that travel for short and long durations before returning home. It helps them have a more fun-filled journey, knowing that their home and/or pet/s are safely in the […]

Top 5 Reasons Why You Need A House Sitter

The hardest decision in a pet lover’s life is when he/she has to leave their pet under the care of someone else as she/he travels away – be it for work or for a holiday. Some homeowners choose to trust their pets with family members, while others opt for housesits or kennels. However, you might […]

House Sitting In Paris – How To House & Pet Sit Around The World Like Us

Pinch me! We’re in Paris! Not only are we in Paris, but we are pet sitting AND house sitting in Paris too, and guess what is visible down our little street? The Eiffel Tower! Yes, Pinch me!  What a whirlwind experience to get here house sitting in Paris. We have waited for so long to return […]

Housesitting For A Healthy Lifestyle

We have been pet and housesitting our way around the world for the past four years. We sold our home and successfully traveled to 65 countries so far, and we are still going!  I guess it isn’t your average life for some, but it is certainly a life we love, and we’d like to tell you […]

Pet And Housesitting In Australia

“OH MY GOSH! “    I look up as I’m drinking my coffee on a misty Summer early morning, to almost come face-to-face with a Koala, looking right back at me. We are housesitting in a hilly suburb about 20 km from the center of the city of Adelaide.  This is suburbia.  This is Australia. This […]

“WINNER” of the 2015 ‘New Voices’ BLOG COMPETITION

“Ruth Johnston, (that’s ME !!), Australian travel writer and full-time housesitter, travels around the world with her son by housesitting, volunteering, and finding new and exciting locations for travel journalism. They find that housesitting saves them money and enables them to keep traveling around the world. In this our choice for the 2015 HouseSitMatch ‘New […]

House-sitting Enables Travel – By A Ten Year Old

Explorason loves traveling! In fact, he has been to 63 countries around the world, over the past three years. And in order for us to sustain our travels, we often house-sit. He loves house-sitting; he adores pets – especially dogs and loves having time to stop and relax. Here is his story …… How house-sitting […]

Executive and Luxury House sitting Professionals

They say ‘Your home is your castle’ – right? From humble homes to luxury mansions, homeowners all over the world need to leave their ‘castles’, and for a myriad of reasons, they take leave of absence of the place dearest to their heart. They leave behind their world treasures, their family heirlooms, their treasured memories, their […]