If you’re a pet owner, or you have a home and garden that needs care and attention while you are away you need live in House Sitters. How do you go about finding live in house and petsitters to move in and care for your dearest possessions? Read on to learn my top tips for how to find house sitters to care for your dearest pes and possessions.
How to Find and Prepare to Live in House Sitters
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My Top Tips on How to Find and Host Live in House Sitters
After running a house sitting platform for some years now I have learned some really good tips and short cuts to ensure you have the best possible experience when you look for and host live in house sitters.
1. Join a reputable house sitting platform
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Of course I would say that wouldn’t I! I run HouseSit Match a house and pet sitting platform. However, I really believe this is best possible way to find housesitting and petsitting solutions for anyone any where in the world.
A paid-for, reputable housesitting platform will be managed by a professional team. The IT will be built and managed by a professional team who are dedicated to caring for your data. And with HouseSit Match the housesitters exchange their time and experience for Free!
Should you choose to meet up on line with unchecked people you met briefly in social media, that’s exposing yourself to random chance. Best to work with professionals who have your best experience at the heart of their mission. Check out the HouseSit Match Trustpilot reviews to see what I mean.
2. Build the very best home and pet owner profile you possibly can
- Your Profile – Once you have registered on the housesitting platform of your choice choose the best profile that is available. This means you can display your pets and home to attract applicants.
- ID Checks – Make sure you do all the ID checks to ensure your profile is verified. On HouseSitMatch this is how we keep the site safe by doing checks on all our registered members. You can feel more secure that we do this for you and all our members. It is a managed site.
- Your photos – Choose photos of your pets and home that present a good image of you and your housesit assignment. You need to show sitters where they will be staying and the size and number of the pets they will be caring for in your absence.
- Add a Video – Make sure you add a video if you can of your pets and how they play. Live in house sitters love to view videos of your pets and home, it helps them imagine themselves living and caring for your space.
3. Prepare your home and space for you to host your live in house sitters
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Where should the live in house sitters sleep
Create a dedicated space for your housesitters to sleep and live. A dedicated bedroom and somewhere a bathroom for them to put their things while they are housesitting for you.
Your kitchen and where they put their food
Clear some space in your fridge and cupboards for the sitters to put their food supplies. Make an effort to clean up before they arrive so they find the kitchen facilities as clean as you would wish to find this space on your return.
4. Give your live in house sitters a tour of the house and equipment
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Once you have invited live in house sitters to care for your home and pets, make sure you prepare by showing them your home, and he various tools and equipment that they will need to care for your home and pets.
For example – where you keep your pet food, cat litter and dog reigns; where you keep your vacuum cleaner to clean your home, show them where you keep the watering can and how to work your hose if your garden needs watering, or a lawn mower if the grass needs cutting.
5. Plan ahead for long term house sitting
You may be looking for sitters for a long term housesitting, and that’s good too. Live in house sitters often prefer longer term housesit assignments. Some housesitters work as digital nomads and move from housesit to housesit, so long term housesits are preferable it means they can settle and can enjoy a new location over a longer period.
House sitting opportunities come in all shapes and sizes each with a unique brief. The long term assignments are usually particularly varied, with often a wide range of assignments from farm housesitting, to seaside housesitting, rural countryside house and pet sitting and city housesitting for cats and dogs. Live in house sitters are often drawn.
6. How to brief your live in house and petsitters
Come to a fair agreement between you – The very best way to approach a housesitting assignment agreed between owners and house sitters is to ensure a brief a written by the homeowner, read and discussed by both and then agreed with the housesitter.
Brief your housesitters – It is essential to have full agreement on the exact dates of the assignment and the required daily routines to maintain the property and keep the pets healthy and happy. At HouseSitMatch we have housesit agreement templates and briefing documents available for you to download and use.
Arrive the day before your departure – Invite the housesitters to arrive a day before your departure to ensure you can introduce them to the pets and show them the routines of your home and property care.
7. Join as a home and pet owner to find live in house sitters
Joining HouseSit Match as a pet and home owner is a straightforward process:
- Register as a homeowner pet owner on HouseSit Match.
- Complete the ID check for added credibility and trustworthiness.
- Build your profile to showcase your pets, and home.
- Offer your dog sits by posting a housesit advert and listing and connect with pet sitters.
- Embark on an exciting journey as a member of this community meeting and working with pet sitters and live in house sitters.
Starting as live in house sitters
If you love pets and fancy trying house sitting, consider joining as a house and pet sitter. Becoming a house and pet sitter on this housesitting and petsitting platform is a straightforward process:
- Register as a house sitter and pet sitter on HouseSit Match.
- Complete the ID check for added credibility and trustworthiness.
- Build your profile to showcase your experience and reliability.
- Apply for dog sits across the housesit listings and connect with homeowners and pet owners.
- Embark on an exciting journey as a trusted house sitter caring for pets and especially dogs.
Further reading about pet sitting and live in house sitters
At Housesit Match.com we like to share useful blogs and practical advice about finding and briefing live in house sitters, housesitting and pet sitting. We hope you find this small selection of our blogs on house sitters useful.
Find a dog sitter. Best at home pet care
Housesitters keep pets safe at home and save money
Top dogsitting tips for beginners
The Affordable Alternative to Dog Kennels
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