I’m planning to house-sit fulltime as I work remotely in the US. To expand my options, I found a thread discussing other services in 2022. Could anyone here share their recent experiences with house-sitting sites and whether they found them worthwhile?
Post from 2022: Other House Sitting Sites
Edited to remove links to other sites as per the posting terms
We’ve been using THS exclusively for 6 years now and for the last 2 years+ we have been full timers. We’ve always managed to get as many sits as we wanted/needed. So far we have not used any other sites. Sitters in Australia and NZ do recommended the local sites, though, as alternatives to THS. We too have done sits in WA but only through THS.
We’ve used MMH a bit in SE Asia and found the HOs to be flaky and light on details. It’s cheap but not great and we haven’t rejoined even at $20 a year. Luxury House Sitting also pretty useless and again cheap but mostly USA and Ireland neither of which we want. On top of THS (80% of our sits) we use local FB pages here in Turkey and Thailand with pretty good results.
I have a mind my house subscription, and sometimes check to see if there’s any potential. I don’t know why I keep a subscription to be honest - I’ve never had success with that site - not once. Most sits listed there really don’t impress me, seem kind of dodgy, or are usually in a dead location in the middle of nowhere with farm animals. People also rarely respond to messages on there, and the website is super old/ clunky and hard to navigate, like it was made in 2005 and never updated. Also there’s no limit to how many sitters can apply - some of those adverts literally have like 200 applicants and have been there for months on end.
But that’s just my experience with that site - you don’t know until you try I guess!