Hi everyone,
I’m new here, just trying to complete my listing. I cannot publish the listing because the form is saying I haven’t completed the essential sections, but I have! Any advice?
Many thanks,
Ann
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The essential section asks you to state handover timings, many owners simply put to be arranged.
Check your listing for completeness on both the app and web versions.
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Thanks to you both for replying. I worked it out I the end. Was taken by surprise and had several applications immediately! Subsequently paused applications to take a breath.
Ann
Listings pause automatically at 5. After you decline a few you can unpause the listing.
Welcome! I have been a HO for just 1 year. My first time completing my listing seemed so laborious and I was hurried and sloppy about it and not detailed. I just wanted to get through all of the required stuff and hit POST my dates. It worked out because I had a lot of interest with my crappy listing anyways. The pics were good and I live by the ocean so that helps. Literally you have to take pics like you are putting your house on the market to sell, and super cute pics of your fur babies of course. After spending a little time on this forum and a THS unsanctioned FB group, I was able to get some really good tips. Thankfully my 5 sitters i’ve had in the past year were great. I feel more educated than ever to keep making good choices in sitters and how to be a good homeowner as well. The biggest takeaway i had honestly from sitters view is that they aren’t here to clean my house, they are here to care for my pets. I used to expect my house to be “as clean as I left it” for them, and still expect minimally the bed stripped and remade with spare sheets I can provide. So now I’ve lowered my expectations of coming back to the house “as clean as I left it” to “pretty clean” (they’ve at a glance left it picked up and clearly did a little cleaning). I still rated 5-Stars on Cleanliness for those sitters that maybe didn’t perfectly wipe the counter or left some crumbs on the floor. I pop on here every few days to see if there is anything else I can learn about or share my experiences with. I enjoy this forum, its very helpful. thanks to everyone using it!
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Oh i wanted to add that there is a bit of a secret language on reviews in both directions (for Homeowners, pets and sitters alike). That is the other important thing I learned. A Homeowner might give a review with 5 stars all around and then put something in the write up section that alludes to less than 5-Stars. I cant think of an example currently…. surely someone else here can give some examples of what to watch for. Sitter will do the same for your home or pets “Bucky was very enthusiastic on his leash” (aka Bucky is not well leash trained)… hopefully that gives you an idea of what to look for.
If your listing is up, you want to work on your Welcome Guide. It’s a bigger project than the listing and very necessary before you invite your first sitter. Experienced sitters (once bitten, twice shy) may cancel on you if 1) you can’t share a Welcome Guide because you’re not ready or 2) your Welcome Guide has surprises not revealed in your listing. Good luck.
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Yessss agree, great point OTRA. This was another thing I kept improving with time. Got the basics in there for the first couple of sits. Then starting really filling it in with better details as I had a 3.5 month sit coming up. In Mexico (where my house is) we say “poco a poco” (little by little).
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