@Maggie8K I feel for you- returning to the sit and seeing the dogs had been less than well cared for AND the other sitter getting a great review! That leaves a bad taste. We’ve been there!
We’ve done split sits 3 times. The first two sits went great- easy handovers between sitters. The third one was not good. The host couldn’t get sitters for a month long stay and we were able to do only the last two weeks so we suggested they create 2 x 2 week sits and we’d do the second half. So we did not meet the host. The first sitter they got had much lower standards than us. He did not appear to have done any cleaning at all for our arrival & freely admitting he had not cleaned the bathroom during his stay!! He left it disgusting! And the stink from the cat litter- down in the basement- was apparent the moment we entered the front door! Clearly gad not been changed. He said it was like that when he arrived!! So the hosts must have had low standards as well!
Later that day we notified the owners of our experience with handover and they apologised profusely.
We then deep cleaned the parts of the house we were going to use and changed the cat litter, vacuumed & mopped etc and after 2 weeks left the house much better than we found it.
Despite our comments they gave the first sitter a great review the day after he left. But we had to wait 2 weeks for ours- after sending 2 reminders -and it was very mediocre! Not a good experience.
We won’t be doing a split sit again!
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