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Global Home Exchange and Vacation Homes is a marketplace for home exchange, vacation rentals, house swaps, holiday homes and vacation rental homes worldwide. Travelers find home exchange or vacation rental accommodations including houses, apartments, flats, town homes, condos, chalets, cabins, beach houses, villas, bed and breakfasts and other vacation accommodation. 

1. Describe your home honestly in your listing and in all correspondence. You want your exchange partners to be pleasantly surprised when they arrive, not disappointed. Never hide the existence of pets house plants or roommates that may not be traveling on exchange with you.

2. Leave your home clean. Standards of cleanliness vary, so make sure that floors are vacuumed, swept or mopped, refrigerator emptied, stove and oven grease-free, bath and shower free grime, windows smudge free, and surfaces dust-free. There is no need to repaint the house.

3. Clear away enough of your personal belongings to leave space on shelves and in closets and drawers so that your guests can empty their suitcases, arrange their things in bedrooms, bathrooms and feel at home.

4. Leave at least two sets of clean sheets per bed and two sets of towels per person.  Leave toilet paper and facial tissues.

5. Compile an easy to read  "Guide to Your Home and Surroundings" which includes local tourist information, hospitals, playgrounds if children are involved and household notices about the use of electrical appliances, pool maintenance, pet and plant care, garbage and recycling pick up, etc. Phone numbers of a recommended doctor, dentist, babysitter, good restaurants, and helpful friends are always welcome too.

6. Consider making an agreement form to avoid all misunderstandings and clarify who pays what in terms of telephone, electric bills, gas consumption, insurance deductibles in case of accidents, and staple foods such as flour, sugar, oil, etc.


7. If practical, leave the makings of a first meal. Nothing fancy, but your guests will be tired and hungry and grateful not to have to go out for dinner.

8. Although it is not a requirement, many  leave a small gift of welcome: a bottle of wine or a local specialty. 

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