Things You Need To Know About Home Swapping

May 31, 2016

Budget planning while setting off on a vacation is a tough task, heaped with a set of worries involving around expenditures of food, water that fits under the expected spending plan. Thinking over, in particular, really, the most taxing aspect while outlining a vacation is to get an affordable accommodation to control a travel budget. So to avoid these pitfalls, there is an easy solution- home swapping. Home swapping means exchanging homes with trustworthy partner. We have bundled up for you some stress less and practical advises about home swapping, much worth reading before estimating your vacation.

Though there are numerous companies offering home-swapping services but following these things, have to do it yourself before zeroing on anything:

• Home Swapping: Types

There are ways of home swapping:

1. Simultaneous Exchange: You can either stay in your home swappers home while they stay in yours.

2. Non-simultaneous Exchange: You can stopover at home swappers second home or vacation home.

3. Hospitality Exchange: You can even plan your vacation as a guest in your swapper’s abode while they are also in the house.

So consider which kind of swap you are most interested in before buying a membership with particular home-swapping companies.

• Research before selecting your home swapper for home-switch:

After deciding the type of home swap, make a potential research on your home swap partner. You need to start this process at least six months in advance. On one hand, you obviously cannot afford to exchange your homes without having complete information about your home swapping partner too. It will be a cautious step before allowing him to enter into your home. Generally, everyone believes that doing home swapping by keeping reputed companies as intermediaries is the safest way. Hold on, it is never the same as it looks and you believe. It is a matter of security so it will be wise enough to have a reliable person to allow accessing your home so that it does not disrupts your comfort level. Home swapping companies has their definite rates structure too. The prior discussion before the home swap and clearing all your expectations will help you a lot for taking decisions else you would not be able to know if you are fine with a home swap or not. Know more about them like: Are they professionals? Are adults traveling without young kids? Does their house look neat and clean in the photos? You can choose the people you feel comfortable accordingly.

There is no harm in being tactful. Make sure that your home is clean and tidy as have been promised to your home swapper while agreeing for home exchange. Stock up all the essentials at home before your swapper steps in for stay at your house. Following the same, maintain and leave your hosts home too as your house.

• Which points to be discussed prior agreeing for home swapping?

Rent: Would you like to offer free accommodation? Would you like to charge a nominal rent? How much?

Smoking / Drinking: Would you allow smoking and drinking in your home?

Usage of telephone/other bills: Discuss how you are going to handle phone calls. Most telephone companies today do itemized billing. It is an easy matter to photocopy your statement when it arrives and send a copy of it to your guest who must of course reimburse you.

Use of kitchen: Are you going to provide breakfast? Can your guest use your kitchen to prepare meals? Arrange whatever is right for both of you.

Making an agreement with the mutual consent before switching the homes will diffuse the chances of generating misunderstandings further between both the home swappers.

• Remember for security: Lock your important documents before your swapper arrives:

Put your bills and other important documents in a locker so that your swapper does not fetch them. Make use of digital lockers protected with passwords for your every crucial document. You will be safe and all set then. When you are managing an apartment swap, you might see photos of people and their houses that give you a real sense about them. For the security of your other valuables like computers and cameras, you have to keep an implicit trust or you can even create your own closet putting your valuables inside.

• Hey, you can also swap your cars:

Longing to explore new destinations with your loved ones in a new car? If, Yes. Then, home swapping offers car swapping too along with their homes.  So while enjoying your vacation with all comforts, if you agree to exchange your car as well along with homes, will be like icing on the cake. So, stay free in a home and explore new destinations making a big savings. Just, by choosing home exchange and create life long memories. Ditch the conventional ways of vacationing like choosing hotels, restaurants and nearby eateries etc and live in a home that you have imagined in your dreams through home swapping. Enjoy your vacation, explore new region’s attractions and forget that your home is lone as you are away for an extended vacation.

• So, dream up and make your home swapping an ideal travel experience:

Home swapping is an ideal way of travelling across the globe. Staying at home, as guests in another’s abode gives exceptional travel memories. It gives opportunity to foster friendships that will never make, you solace.

Even if you are planning to travel alone or with your partner, home swapping brings to you an unique globetrotting experiences each day as it makes you aware about lifestyles of different countries. So dream up and explore yourself to the world and live with the exciting experiences in a manner your friends host a party at their abode.

• Tips to remember as a guests and hosts:

Being a host, it is not necessary that you always entertain you but sharing about yourselves builds the bond sturdily. Do not expect that you will always receive a warm welcome by your hosts. As all relationships are different. Please remember never to outlive your welcome and find each way to retaliate your host’s hospitality. In return for their kind gesture, you can plan for a dinner or even greet them with flowers and wine to wish them all the thanks for their kindness and efforts for providing you all the essentials with the bed only and managing to give you last longing memories of your expedition. Though, home-swapping experiences are for a few days but get inked as notable experiences in your travel diaries for lifetime.

These above home-swapping advices are general in nature. Rest, everything is dependent on locations every time you choose. In other respects, home swapping is quiet worth to give it a shot! It is really an unconventional way of stress free vacation with your beloved ones. So, If you really want to explore and enjoy your almost free vacation. If not completely free but definitely will make your travel expenses (food, water, accommodation) much less than your expected budget of your destined vacation trip.