Amazing idea - new sitter

[Pbkelly72]

Hello everyone,

I happened to stumble upon this site today, and I feel like this is too good to be true!! I sold my home last year, and have been traveling around the US visiting with family and friends that I haven’t seen in years. I’ve made multiple cross country trips in the past year, with my mom on the east coast and two adult kids on the west coast.

It’s been really fun, especially driving with my son’s Saint Bernard, Theodore. However, I’ve found that when I return to California, I almost feel like I’m imposing on my children, so housesitting for someone close by would be the ideal solution.

Next year I’ll begin my international travel, but really would much rather immerse myself than be a tourist. I’m hoping this will afford me that opportunity, while offering a friendly furry face or two!

My question for the full-time international nomads, do you find it difficult to get back to back sits in the same area?

[Samox24]

Hello @Pbkelly72 and a warm welcome to the Community Forum

Theodore is absolutely adorable! … great photos. It sounds like you are having an incredible adventure.

I have attached some threads you should find helpful regarding full time sitting

Filling the gaps for nomads that go from sit to sit

Hello it’s Robin again I am exploring the idea of letting go of my apt lease ( just getting so expensive) and hopefully finding enough sits to fill in the gaps. I did full time RV for 3 years so I am kind of familiar with the lifestyle and absolutely loved it! But I no longer own that Rv. The big hiccup is the gaps. Other than family and friends to stay with Airbnb even monthly reduced rates are so crazy expensive. Just putting the discussion out here to hear others experiences an…

About me and some questions

My partner and I are digital nomads and full-time sitters since July 2020. We have mainly sat in Europe, but we’re just back from 3 months in Thailand and Singapore. So it is definitely possible, long-term sits are out there, but needless to say there will be a lot of competition! Our sits are on average 3 weeks. Flying obviously means you need to be well organized for it to be cost-effective. We tend to go for “longer sits” first and once we get that we build the rest around it. We have secur…

Full-time Sitters

Hi, I’m curious as to how many of you are full-time, or nearly full-time house-sitters. We are Scottish & English but lived in Australia for 30 years. On retiring in 2019 we sold our house and set off to travel the world, starting with 3 months in Africa. I had assumed we’d eat into our savings rapidly for a year or two then buy somewhere (such as France). But on coming to the UK we discovered house-sitting and can travel on our pensions pretty much indefinitely. We managed one sit in Costa…

I have attached a video for you to explain how it all works

How To Find a House Sit | TrustedHousesitters.com

For reference once you are a member and once your listing is completed you can also add your TrustedHousesitters profile on to your Forum profile by following the attached link, should you wish. This will then enable others to offer you helpful advice and feedback.

How to add a listing or profile link to your FORUM profile

It’s important to firstly understand that your FORUM PROFILE is different to the profile you have as a member on the main TrustedHousesitters’ website. We do not allow links to profiles or listings in forum topics or posts (see guidelines here), but you can add the link of your TrustedHousesitter website profile or house sit listing in your FORUM PROFILE. The process is slightly different for owners and sitters. Note - We would recommend you do this on the desktop version as it’s easier to ma…

If you are unsure how to do this, or if you have any questions at all, do not hesitate to ask, we are all more than happy to help.

Also, remember you can use the spyglass symbol at the top of the page next to the TrustedHousesitters logo and search for any questions that you may have as they have most likely already been answered on here and of course if not then please just ask!

I have attached a thread below, it would be great if you could join in with this as we think you could offer great feedback and your input would be a great addition

How did you learn about Trusted Housesitters?

I think it would be interesting to hear how each of us came to discover THS. It has had such a positive impact on my life. I’ll start with my own story. I spent a lot of years handling a lot of responsibility – taking care of two dogs, a child, several family members with serious health problems all the while not feeling so great, myself, dealing with loss and upheaval. I raised my daughter as a single mother and had very little freedom to go anywhere. Then, about four or five years ago, after…

[geoff.hom]

Welcome, @Pbkelly72!

Honestly, your first photo stopped in me in my web-tracks. Where was it taken?

I should probably add something useful, lol…

@Samox24 is very experienced in worldwide travel. If you see some of her posts, you’ll get what I mean. So I trust her advice. Including anything about swimming pools.

My other advice is to take it a step at a time. There’s great advice on the forums, but after digesting that, be sure to get your feet wet with some sits (anywhere) on TH. Practice makes perfect!

Best of luck! Let us know how it goes!

[Pbkelly72]

Thank you so much all of that information! So much to digest!! I’ll get into more of the forums in the coming weeks and try to get a few local sits scheduled once I establish my profile. Honestly, I didn’t really want to dive right in paying for a year membership for something that really wasn’t as nice as it sounded. Lots of scams out there!

Thanks again for all of the helpful threads!

Kelly

[Pbkelly72]

Thanks so much for the warm welcome and advice! That first picture is at Morro Bay, which is about an hour or two north of Los Angeles, California.

I’m looking forward to trying this out!

[Samox24]

Hi @Pbkelly72 you are very welcome and if you have any more questions at all, please don’t hesitate to ask

[Colin]

Hi @Pbkelly72 - We are full-time nomadic sitters. Getting back-to-back sits easily depends on where you want to be. Some areas are really popular with lots of listings whilst others are more difficult.
Rather than lots of short back-to-back - aim for longer sits to keep things simple, our aim is ideally 2 - 6 week sits.
I don’t know the US but we recently did 211 days in New Zealand & Australia which consisted of 198 days of house-sitting and 13 days in hotel accommodation.
This is a list of our dates sitting over the last couple of years in chronological order ( we started house-sitting in May 2021 )

Our stays so far.. – House and Pet sitters & Airbnb guests

[Pbkelly72]

Wow @Colin ! That sounds amazing! My travel goal before finding this community was to spend a few months at a time in different areas of the world. So I’m definitely going to try and find some longer sits, no matter where they are.

Thanks for feedback!!

Stay safe,

Kelly

[richten1]

Welcome @Pbkelly72. Sitting can be a great lifestyle but can take time to build up your reviews when getting sits can be easier.
Good luck.

[PVGemini]

One night in a hotel could easily cost more than one year’s membership fee! Are you looking to Sit in the SLO area? I am from the San Francisco Bay Area, and there are lots of opportunities there. There are a few in SLO area. I would get some Sits locally, to build up your reviews, and then you can apply to Sits wherever you would like to go! There are ways to get 20-25% the membership fee.

[Pbkelly72]

Thank you!