First we would ask them when we talk and next, we would ask for their address. There is a data base where you can discover the names of the owners of the property and we subscribe to this service.
It’s an easy check but mostly it is evident when we interview each other.
In the U.S., it’s usually public record who owns a home. In many cases, you can just google it.
There are exceptions, like when someone puts a home in trust, which then makes the trust the owner of record.
Yep! It’s quite easy.
Thank you for your comments. We do receive plenty of qualified sitters and we don’t use the sitters who have saved our home as a source of potential sitters; we post the sit and review the applications as they arrive. Additionally, we disregard and bypass any application where a potential sitter says that they don’t have a cover letter ready but wanted to get the application in first and a formal letter will follow. We kindly move along because there are just so many.
The challenge were having was really about the mass of people who save our home and THS sends us a notification for every one.
Through this dialogue I have discovered that as sitters look at properties, they aren’t able to see what the homeowner has written as the title to their property. I was mystified why so many people who didn’t match our needs were saving our listing. Now that I know that the issue is with THS ap, I’m more understanding. This doesn’t change the daily notifications but I have now elected NOT to allow notifications from THS and I have requested the next set/sets of sitters to contact us directly via email and text. Thankfully this block will eliminate the mass of notifications from THS.
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