Other House Sit Sites

Start the upload with the last one (oldest) first and then go up “the ladder.”

Yes, you have to load oldest review first. I leant that too and like you I have 10 years worth!

Thanks @august and @IzziDog I’ve now added my reviews, with your help, and I’m ready to go. Actually, I enjoyed adding the reviews as it was a lovely walk down memory lane. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: Currenly I’m one of the few sitters showing in Canada so I’ll just wait for the enquiries to come rolling in. :joy:

I see that GPS hasn’t reached its 3000 free members yet. That’s disappointing as it is a nicely designed site. Sadly, there have been three start-ups since TrustedHousesitters introduced its new format. Had there only been one, it would have stood a better chance of attracting those leaving TrustedHousesitters without the numbers being so fragmented.

Did you do the verification as well as load your reviews @Snowbird?

Yes with my driver’s licence and selfie.

Actually, my guess is that most people who are looking for different platforms than THS will simultaneously join the other new ones. I joined two of them and I might have a look at #3 as well.

Yes, still 2000+ free memberships up for grabs on Global Pet Sitter! I’ve joined this and the Guardians Tribe, but I’m not aware of a third one.

I’m surprised how many people say they are fed up with THS but won’t support the new start-ups because, they say, there are too few sits or sitters on the platform. I suspect even THS only had a few sits and sitters in it’s first month too! The monopoly will never be broken until people have the faith to support the newbies on the scene. At least with GPS it’s no risk as the first year is free and you can join and support it’s growth at no cost.

Never mind - Answered my own question. LOL

@Snowbird @IzziDog I’m in the process of creating our account on GPS. Both as HOs and sitters. Requested having our home listing ported over. Waiting… we’ll see how it goes.

Our THS home listing ported over perfectly. Except our reviews from sitters who have stayed in our home. So have to figure out how to show them.

Now to create our listing as sitters. That’s next.

If you can’t figure it out then contact the admin using the ‘contact’ tab at the bottom of the page. They are really helpful.

@Snowbird @august @Crosswords_and_puzzles I put in a request with the developer of GPS for the ability to load reviews and then sort by date order. Good news; they’ve fixed it! You can load in any order and they will display chronologically

If you find anything that doesn’t work as it should, or if there’s any feature you think would help usability, they genuinely want to hear about it and do act on it too. At the bottom of the webpage there is a product road map tab where you can submit requests and see progress on those already requested

Oh MY! :heart_eyes: A product roadmap. That is so cool and gets a vote of confidence from me. How nice would it be if THS had all our suggestions for the past MANY years on one?

I think as a sitter you can easily migrate your THS profile Global Pet Sitter in like half an hour copy-pasting, less than 1 hour if you take it slowly - including verifying and linking to THS. I didn’t import my references yet, but till now everything went surprisingly well.
I really hope they will pull through.

Yes, I have just noticed that while uploading my reviews. Regardless of the order in which they are uploaded, the reviews are sorted by the date of the sit.
I am very impressed by the site. SO far, they have done a great job.

Does anyone have any experience with Housesitmatch ?

We did a year with them, but didn’t get a single sit - they have some amazing sits listed but I have no idea who gets them!

@Colin thank you for your reply. Do you they have sits in Europe outside of England or most of the sits are in England ? Unfortunately we can’t see the listings if we don’t subscribe.

Do you get a refund if you don’t find any sits ?