I personally love this! I have always seen THS advertise that Sitters “STAY FOR FREE IN BEAUTIFUL HOMES ALL OVER THE WORLD”. Nope. Nope Nope. There is nothing whatsoever FREE about having the full responsibility of a home and pets. It is an exchange, and I see it as an incredible advantage to the pet and home owners. Where I live in California, pet sitters get paid $75/day. Not getting paid anything is sacrificing a lot of income, and it is always a big job to walk, feed, brush, clean the home, and care for plants, get mail and provide security of homeowner’s homes.
My needs are not nearly as high as the needs of the authors/ pet sitters described here, but I don’t want two huge dogs and a cat sleeping on my bed, nor do I want to have to cook four meals a day for dogs, have a dog pull on their leash-no manners, no training. Nor do I want to clean a house top to bottom because the dogs are without discipline or boundaries and the house gets filthy every single day, because dogs drag in so much dirt, leaves, and landscaping non stop.
This sample agreement is respectful and clear and I wholeheartedly wish THS was more supportive of their Pet Sitters.
Thank you.
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Your version is MUCH better than the OP’s. I like it. Thanks for sharing.
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Have you used it yet? How have the HOs responded?
I see this letter being useful for novice sitters to read through and make their own list of questions and dealbreakers that they should bring up in the video call or by message BEFORE accepting any sit. Most of us learn to do that after several sits but we handle it in a much more conversational and natural way and not the way this comes off (in my opinion).
I think if a novice sitter sent something like this, they’d get dropped like a hot potato, especially if no track record on this site of being an excellent sitter.
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