Hello! I just created my profile, and am curious to look for sits available in a particular date range, but the system seems to be searching only for the specific dates marked, and I want any sits available within the range. Does anyone else have this issue? How do I search for available sits with dateranges between June and August 2024 for example?
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!
Carly
Hi Carly
You should be able to search between 1st June - 31 August easily enough. I have just searched the UK for these dates and it has returned 144 sits.
I have used the app. If you type in the country/city/town and then in the filters put the start and end dates and âApplyâ you should get the same results.
Hi @carlywood ,
Welcome to trusted housesitters!
This is easy to do, First click on the âfind a housesitâ tag,
then the âdatesâ tag
Now click on the start and end dates you want to search.
Finally, and most importantly! click on âAPPLYâ to lock the dates in
Thank you Shannon!!!
I tested your search and indeed - I think perhaps my expectations were too high think there would be loads of opportunities already posted for next summer in a couple of western US states. Not too many- or perhaps they get snatched up quickly?! Anyhow⌠i have saved a couple now so hopefully will get some alerts. Thanks so much for responding to what I now see was a pretty poor question! 
Carly
Not a problem. Tbf June - Aug is peak summer holidays and to quote @Colin I will eat my hat if there arenât hundreds of sits available in the US at that time. You are just a little ahead of the curve with your searches. Peak listing is generally a few months prior although some very organised folks will have listings up sooner. I would suggest that you keep your search saved and keep an eye out but maybe start looking in earnest after Easter.
Also as you are new to this you should read up as much as possible on the forum and the website blog and help guides to glean as much information as possible.
Additionally you need to think about getting some reviews under your belt before setting your sights on a âbigâ trip. There is loads of advice on here about taking local, less popular, short sits to get those reviews in. Kinda like serving your apprenticeship before getting the dream job.
I am sure others on here from the US can give you some better advice on your preferred US states destinations as not in my bag as we are very much UK based at the moment.
Good luck. 
Oh and meant to say ⌠this was my mantra when I was working - No such thing as a bad/poor question! Never be afraid to ask.
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@carlywood in my experience if I use the AnyWhere search with dates a list of sits from anywhere are listed, however not all sits available are shown. If I then specifically nominate a country, then my resultant list includes a lot more that I was able to see in the anywhere search. Similarly if I use the Map function I get more in a specific country than result from the Search function.
I have highlighted this to THS as part of a support call providing stats to support my findings. The response was that that happens time to time and not much can be done about it.
My best approach is to use Map lookup first, then the specific country search then the anywhere search after entering your date range.
The only problem is that by specifying a country in the search or selecting from the map, you limit showing listings for places you never dreamed of going.
Hope that can help.
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I know this post is over six months old @prholst but I was searching the forum about this very thing. Iâm new to THS and was wondering if I was missing something because I found exactly what you described - and you described it very well. Thank you!
@DeeMcC thanks for the comments. As a further insight into this, I regularly try to verify the correctness of the sits offered. In the example below I will use figures that illustrate an anomaly however the figures are not the actual ones that I discovered at that time (I canât remember them).
I looked at house sits in Australia and saw total was 100. Then I individually searched for sits in each Australian state. The total of those individual states totalled 111. I then sent this info to THS to highlight the discrepancy. The reponse was that they could not explain it and it is what it is.
Perhaps the lack of consistency in displaying ALL available sits at any one time is the reason that I donât see sits for places that I see other forum members say they have been to. Perhaps I should spend more time with my searches, however that would detract from other things I enjoy and I should not have to anyway!
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Hi @prholst
Not sure why the difference unless more sits got listed between the 2 searches. However if you search a city or area of a country youâll get a list of current sits fitting your criteria you can apply for, youâll also get a list of all THS HOâs ânot currently looking for a sitterâ you can like by clicking the heart on the top right of the listing. This helps you track your favourites and alert you to any that open up for sits. It also alerts a HO youâve liked their listing.
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@prholst The discrepancies may be due to inconsistencies in how the regions are set up in the mapping software THS uses.
Some time back, someone noticed that certain sits in Yorkshire, England werenât appearing a search for sits in âYorkshireâ. I did some investigation, and it turned out that there were sub regions of Yorkshire that were not being included. These sub regions were inconsistent too - some were historic, some were newer administrative areas. One was a single village! Depending on what the home host chose when setting up their listing, the sit might or might not display in a search for the whole of Yorkshire. Most sits in the eastern (coastal) part of Yorkshire were not included.
We determined that the only ways to search for all sits in an area of Yorkshire was to choose a town instead of a region, to see all sits around it, or to use the map to search.
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Thanks for these other insights @prholst - itâs a bit confounding because like you, iâve done similar comparisons using text searches and map searches and noticed discrepancies. Iâve started saving a list of country searches but agree this can be cumbersome! But anyway, happy travels to you!
@DeeMcC, as it happens my old motto of travelling with THS was âtravel by demandâ as we used to be notified or find places we had never of heard of or known about before has now changed somewhat as most searches require something specific/a place name you know to highlight available sits. You travel well and safe too!
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