We are new to sitting and wondered whether it is possible to reach out to people in a specific area that we want to visit without there being specific dates advertised.
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The only way to open up a line of communication with the homeowner is applying to an active sit they have listed.
If you search a particular area, you can see sits that are not currently active, and you can open the listing and favorite it (pressing the heart icon.) Depending on the ownerâs membership level, they get notified when someone does this, and they would be able to invite these people to apply for a future listing. You will also get a notification when this listing has new dates. You canât choose specific dates to be notified of, howeverâyou will get notifications of any listing by this HO.
You may sometimes see a sit you like but the dates donât work for youâsome sitters will apply anyway, letting them know they canât do those dates, but would be interested in future ones. I personally donât ever do that, but some have said this has led to invitations in the future. Some HOâs may not mind this, some might not like it.
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Short answer: no it isnâtâŚ
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Thank you for your help. Iâve liked several non active sits in the area Iâm looking to sit in the future in the hope someone reaches out to me.
I donât think applying for dates that arenât compatible would be helpful for those advertising as they could miss out on an application if my application then caused a pause in their process.
Iâll keep hoping that someone from northern Tasmania reaches out to us.
You are welcome @OdLou . Sounds like you already have a good idea of how everything works. Yes, I agree about not doing that especially for popular sits. If I was a HO, especially for a sit like that, I wouldnât like getting those messages.
Many people say they do this then cancel their application so they donât take up a space. I am curious though if that actually reduces the number of applicants if the listing is still open or it still gets recorded as one of the first five. In my experience of cancelling several applications when they have already been pausedâthe owners were taking too long to respondâthe listing didnât go live again.
So in this case of a listing already in review, it would seem that there wouldnât be an automatic relist if applications go lower than five, and it would need to be manually unpaused.
I also wonder if this could have happened because there were actually more than 5 applications submitted originally since anyone who starts an application can still send it in, provided they donât click away from the screen.
Iâd be interested in getting some more information on how that works from someone in the know about that.
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Iâve just sent you a message
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I donât the answer to your questions but I just think that as a HO who has experienced several sits, it can feel overwhelming when you have all the applications to sort through and make a decision and I wouldnât welcome being approached by someone who isnât available but is wanting to register a future interest.
Iâll just keep hoping that someone in northern Tasmania sees that I have saved/liked their profile and either reaches out or I get notification if and when they advertise their dates.
Good to chat
I donât know if this helps but we have sent messages to several HOs for future sits in different countries and locations and said âplease read and decline so you can accept other peopleâ and theyâve all been received positively. Some have invited us later too. An HO can also only get 5 applications at a time now so they wonât ever be overwhelmed with sorting through them anymore. Good luck with Tazzy 
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