Hi! I’m new to THS, I just did my first post for a sitter and I’m having trouble finding one! I live in a lovely home in the Oakland (CA) hills with a sweet little cat. A lot of sitters have favorited my house but I’m not getting applicants. I need someone over the Christmas / New Years holiday and wondering if it’s not going to work out and I need to find another plan.
Any advice on what else I should be doing / doing differently?
Hello @Treehouse_cat and welcome. Add your listing to your profile and then members can offer help and advice on how to get applicants.
#teamworkmakesthedreamwork
You have left it really late to find a sitter for the holiday period.
This time of the year is by far the busiest with more than normal home hosts looking for sitters and fewer than normal sitters wanting to sit.
As @Cuttlefish says, add your listing to your profile to enable experienced members of the group to offer any advice.
Don’t despair yet, there is still time. However, at this late stage if I was you, I would also be considering a Plan B in case you don’t manage to attract a trustedhousesitter
Good Luck!
@Treehouse_cat Both @Cuttlefish and @Colin have summed up the situation re Christmas/New Year sits well. Add your listing to your profile so that we can help you.
One thing I would like to alert you to is that today there have been two new owners post how they were asked for payment by their prospective sitters. Do not fall into this trap as it is against the T & Cs for sitters to ask for payment by an owner. It is an equal exchange where no money changes hands. Hopefully those owners have reported them to THS and included the written evidence so the sitters can be dealt with.